On June 23, 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog first appeared on the Sega Genesis. Since then, the little blue speed demon has gone on to sell over 70 million games across more than 130 different titles on nearly every console from the Genesis to the PS3. The games have had varying degrees of quality over the years, ahem, I’m looking at you Sonic Unleashed, but there’s still something exciting about firing up a new Sonic game and going on a mad dash for rings.
Sega has released its financial statement for the 2023-24 fiscal year, and profits may be up, but it's mostly not down to video games.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.
It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.
Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol
Too bad Sonic died after the release of Sonic & Knuckles.
Happy Birthday, blu blur. here's to another two decades or so.
From what I played of Generations at E3, those looking for that nostalgic tug should be very pleased.
The demo should be up on PSN and XBLA later today.
Thank you SEGA, thank you Sonic Team for creating so much beautiful memories. Sonic will always be a gaming icon.