SEGA and DC Comics have announced a new collaboration, DC x Sonic Generations, set to launch in March 2025. The crossover will feature a monthly comic series written by Sonic the Hedgehog writer Ian Flynn. The series will run until 2026 and will include Sonic characters reimagined as DC superheroes.

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During a recent Sonic Central livestream, SEGA and DC provided a preview of the crossover, revealing characters like Shadow as Batman, Knuckles as Superman, Amy as Wonder Woman, and Sonic as The Flash. Alongside the comic series, the collaboration will include various merchandise and licensed products. This crossover marks the beginning of a long-term partnership between SEGA and DC Comics, with plans for more content and media releases beyond 2025. 

In related news, Sega has revealed the release date for the Sonic x Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings anime series, which will serve as a prologue to the Sonic x Shadow Generations game. The first episode, titled Shadow and Maria, will premiere on September 25, 2024, on the official Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel.

The DC x Sonic comic series will begin its run in March 2025. Sonic x Shadow Generations will come to the PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC on October 25, 2024.

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Sega announced that before Sonic x Shadow Generations is released on October 25, 2024, the standalone version of Sonic Generations will be delisted. It will no longer be available alone on digital storefronts as of September 9, 2024. 

Here is Sega’s official announcement. It noted that everyone who buys Sonic Generations prior to being delisted will be able to continue to play it and, if they own the PC version, use mods. The company also confirmed that the Microsoft Store and Steam bundles with it will continue to sell the game.

So, for example, Sonic the Hedgehog: Ultimate Bundle on Steam includes Sonic Generations Collection and 14 other games for $205.06. After the delisting date, people would still be able to get the game via this bundle for the PC. 

For those wondering what one game has to do with the other, Sonic x Shadow Generations is a remaster with an additional game tied to Shadow the Hedgehog included with it. 

Sonic x Shadow Generations will appear on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam on October 25, 2024. Sonic Generations appeared on the 3DS, PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, and it will be delisted on September 9, 2024. 

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Xbox Live Gold will have the chance to enjoy four games starring some familiar faces with the March 2020 Games with Gold. Microsoft revealed Batman: The enemy Within – The Complete Season (Episodes 1-5), Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, and Sonic Generations will all be added next month.

Telltale Games' Batman: The Enemy Within – The Complete Season will be the first title avaliable for Xbox One. Players can fight crime and protect Gotham from the Riddler until March 31, 2020. It normally retails at $14.99.

Batman will be followed by WayForward’s Shantae: Half-Genie Hero on March 16, 2020. Players can whip their hair and transform to save the day in Sequin Land until April 15, 2020. This Shantae title normally costs $19.99.

Xbox 360 owners will be able to enjoy Konami’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, as will Xbox one s via Backward compatibility from March 1-15, 2020. Help Dracula return to his stronghold and regain his powers in an effort to defeat Satan. You can normally pick up the game for $39.99.

And finally, in light of Valentine’s Day 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog film, Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners will be able to roll around at the speed of sound in Sonic Generations. It will be available from March 16-31, 2020. It normally costs $19.99.

The March 2020 Games with Gold will begin rolling out starting March 1, 2020.

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During the April 10, 2018 Inside Xbox Episode 2 presentation, Microsoft revealed the 19 Xbox games people are going to be able to play on the Xbox One this month. Eight games will be available to play as of April 17, 2018, with a second group of 11 available on April 26, 2018.

The following Xbox games will be playable on the Xbox One on April 17, 2018.

• Blinx: The Time Sweeper
• Breakdown
• Conker: Live & Reloaded
• The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
• Hunter: The Reckoning
• Jade Empire
• Panzer Dragoon Orta
• SSX 3

These Xbox games will be part of the backwards compatibility program starting April 26, 2018.

• Destroy All Humans!
• Full Spectrum Warrior
• Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
• MX Unleashed
• Panzer Elite Action: Fields of Glory
• Star Wars: Battlefront
• Star Wars: Battlefront 2
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight – Jedi Academy
• Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
• Star Wars: Republic Commando

In addition, a number of Xbox 360 backwards compatible games have been enhanced for the Xbox One X as of today. These are the ones getting an update.

• Darksiders
• Gears of War 2
• Portal 2
• Red Dead Redemption
• Sonic Generations
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Counting the Xbox games added to the Xbox One backwards compatibility list, this will bring the total number of playable games from the first system up to 32.

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First 4 Figures are releasing a Sonic the Hedgehog statue sometime in Q4 of this year. Priced at $200, the statue is a 12” tall Modern Sonic, and is limited to just 1,650 pieces.

A second, more limited “Exclusive” variant has a slow-pulsing blue base that shows the movement of water in Emerald Coast and has flashing yellow sparks to depict Sonic’s speed. This one is limited to 750 pieces. Take a look at both statues below:

Modern Sonic Regular:

Modern Sonic Exclusive:

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Like its console counterparts, Sonic Generations on 3DS lets you play as Classic and Modern Sonic. The game is broken up into seven stages, each one consisting of two acts. Act 1 is always Classic Sonic, while Act 2 is Modern Sonic. After completing both acts, you unlock a forward-running bonus act.   There’s a clear difference between the feel of Classic and Modern Sonic. Classic Sonic can perform the old Spin Dash (hold down and press jump) while Modern Sonic can perform a highspeed boost dash (Y button). Initially, Modern Sonic is also the only one of the two with a homing attack. Once you’re close enough to an enemy, a red reticule will appear over them. You can jump once to get in the air, and then press the jump button a second time to perform a homing attack. Once you complete the Genesis stages (Green Hill, Casino Night and Mushroom Hill), Classic Sonic acquires the homing attack as well, making him a lot more useful than he is at first.   That having been said, I largely preferred the Modern Sonic stages throughout my time with Sonic Generations, and this is because of his boost dash.   The Classic Sonic stages in Generations are what Sonic players are familiar with: go higher to get through the stage faster, or go lower to explore more. Despite this, Classic Sonic can only really be speedy for so long before a spike trap or an ill-placed enemy pops up in your path and stops you dead in your tracks. As long as you’re rolled up into a ball (your Spin Dash form), you’ll roll through enemies just fine and maintain your speed. However, soon enough, a jump or a ramp will force you out of ball form, which means you’ll be vulnerable to getting hurt again, and  something will eventually hit and slow you down.   Modern Sonic, on the other hand, is much, much more focused on speed. The difference here is his boost dash. Modern Sonic has a boost gauge at the bottom-left of the screen, which you can fill up by attacking enemies. As long as you have some portion of the gauge filled up, you can hold down Y to perform a continuous boost dash, which:   a) Looks and sounds very cool (the music fades out, too!). b) Makes you go very fast and right through most enemies, unless you happen to get unlucky and are knocked out of your dash.   Keeping your boost gauge filled up is usually not very difficult at all, and I found myself boost-dashing throughout the majority of the Modern Sonic stages, which felt great. You’re always moving forward, almost never having to turn back or slow down, and if you make a mistake and do slow down, the boost dash will ensure that it’s never for too long. You practically feel like you’re flying when you Boost Dash in mid-air, which is a sense of freedom that Classic Sonic never gives you.   Modern Sonic stages are more stylish, too. Not only are they faster, but there are sections, like in the Mushrom Hill Zone for example, where the perspective changes to a third-person view that’s behind your back for a short while. This constant change makes the Modern Sonic stages feel more dynamic overall, and those are the ones I found myself replaying over and over again to get better scores.   There aren’t any cutscenes in Sonic Generations on 3DS. The story is told using very basically-animated models of the characters that substitute for character portraits. Boss fights are in the game as well, and are different for Classic and Modern Sonic. Classic boss fights are races, while Modern boss fights are actual boss fights.   As you play more of the game, you unlock missions in the Mission mode as well. These involve high-level play, such as clearing a certain act within a specified time without, say, defeating any enemies or losing a life. There’s 100 of these missions to unlock. Some of them are unlocked using 3DS Play Coins or by Street ing with other 3DS owners.   Food for thought: Sometimes, I wished Sega had included an option to play as Tails and Knuckles. I in the case of the Genesis Sonic games, I would love playing as Tails because certain levels were much easier to complete with his helicopter tail ability, and it made exploring stages for items fun, too. Knuckles was a fantastic character to control as well, in Sonic & Knuckles, thanks to his gliding move.

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When I was a kid, I was a huge Sonic fan. I had all but two challenges aced in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, owned five Sonic games for the GBA, and knew the lyrics to practically every song in the Adventure series. I had the comics, 1CC’d the fighter built on the Virtua Fighter engine (and the nearest cabinet was in Canada!), and knew all of Sonic’s awful friends from the games and the multiple TV shows. If this incredibly embarrassing confession didn’t drive the point home, I’ve played a lot of Sonic games.   However, around 2004, I could feel my love for the series waning. Sonic Heroes was the first Sonic game I’d played since Sonic 3D Blast (sorry Ishaan) that I simply disliked, and the show Sonic X was underwhelming even by my low Saturday morning cartoon standards. Next thing I knew, Shadow the Hedgehog had a gun, the stories got even more ludicrous and I simply lost interest.   Sonic Generations won that interest back.   For the first time in years, pressing start on the title screen led straight into playing a stage. No menus. No cutscenes. simply Act 1 of Green Hill Zone, just like Sonic 1. While it wasn’t a direct remake of the Sonic 1’s first zone, it was meant to capture the feel, complete with Green Hill’s enemies and segments mirroring the original stage. The level is simple, but it’s a return to the old days. The speedy segments are a reward for precise platforming, instead of the point of the level. It was classic Sonic, his moveset reduced to jumping and spin-dashing.   At the very end of this stage, you run by a classic Sonic goalpost (with Sonic’s face on one side, Robotnik’s on the other), receive a grade based on your time, rings, and survival, and then… You’re treated to a cutscene. Here begins your adventure with Modern Sonic.   Sonic and about seven thousand of his friends are celebrating his birthday with chili dogs (naturally) and balloons when an evil force appears from out of nowhere and tears a hole in time. Sonic, being Sonic, decides to stop the great villain by running through a number of rollercoaster-like stages.   And what rollercoasters they are! In comparison to the classic take on Green Hill Zone, the modern act is incredibly quick and visually dynamic, with tons of camera changes as Sonic goes through loops and slides along grindrails. The music takes on this same feel, as the soundtrack incorporates a wider variety of instruments and themes while playing as Modern Sonic. The composers even mixed multiple Sonic themes together to create the new tracks. Much like the mechanics themselves, the songs are generally welcome reimaginings of familiar classics.   Modern Sonic is a bit more complex than his classic counterpart, and his stages are built more like multi-tracked roller coasters than Classic Sonic’s vertically-endowed multi-path skyscrapers. Modern Sonic is given a homing attack that allows him to bounce from enemy-to-enemy-to- spring-to-enemy, a refinement of bouncing from the head of one enemy to the next in the classic games. The X button (a shortcut for the spin dash as Classic Sonic) is a gauge-controlled boost. While it makes Sonic invulnerable to enemies, it makes him unwieldy. Proper boost usage parallels proper spin-dash use in the classics; it can lead to death if you’re not careful, but also add distance to your jumps and provide access to alternate paths through the stage.   The general rule of thumb in the Sonic series has been that higher paths are faster and more fun, but take more skill to stay on. Modern Sonic takes that in a new direction by occasionally placing boosts and ramps in places that will start Sonic on a different path toward the goal. On the first run through a stage, you might just notice them in the corner of the screen and wonder where they lead while staying on the main path. For me, these mysterious alternate routes served as inspiration to replay stages, as they often resulted in faster times, better grades, and additional collectable red coins star rings.   It almost seems as though Generations was made for people (read: old curmudgeons) like me. It’s a combination of Sonic past and present, recapturing the magic of the old games while simultaneously easing reluctant players into the new. While I was more familiar with the play style of the classic levels, I ended up having more fun with the modern levels with their combination of blinding speed and over the top spectacle. Running down the side of a building while being chased by police bots is simply more entertaining than being blindly transferred from one end of a glass tube to another.   Part of my quick adoption of the new style came from the expanded freedom in stage selection. Zones are unlocked three at a time, and even their acts can be played out of order. For instance, you could play through three acts as Classic Sonic before switching and approaching them as modern or vice versa. If a stage proved frustrating, I’d quit out of it and approach it with the opposite Sonic. While both acts of each zone must be beaten to progress (as well as a challenge per zone, but more on that later), it was nice to have the freedom to get used to each Sonic’s approach to a stage at my own pace.   Speaking of me being an old curmudgeon, I was shocked at how much I enjoyed the game’s writing. Ever since Sonic was given a voice, he’s starred in increasingly more ridiculous storylines. Since the Dreamcast era, Sonic has fought ancient aqueous gods, discovered the scientifically engineered “perfect lifeform” (in both hedgehog and lizard forms), and even been turned into an etymologically inaccurate “werehog”.   I’m not going to lie to you, Generations’ story isn’t that much better than Sonic Team’s previous attempts. It’s a pretty loose time-bending yarn that just barely justifies why there are two Sonics running around and creates an evil for them to fight, and a lot of the dialogue is groan-worthy. However, there are some cute references to previous Sonic games in there that put a smile on my face. For instance:   1. Classic Dr. Robotnik/Dr. Eggman has no idea who Sonic’s new friends are. 2. Tails can’t Green Hill Zone, despite Sonic’s deja vu. 3. When Tails mentions how bizarre the game’s time travel story is, Sonic mentions that it’s no more ridiculous than the plots of Sonic Colors and Sonic and the Secret Rings.   There are little jokes like these strewn through the game’s writing, and as a lapsed Sonic fan, it’s a pleasure to see that the writers are willing to have fun with their material, especially given how silly it is.   However, those aren’t the only sly references to Sonic’s past. Boss fights and rival battles (levels set on loops in which you have to discover a way to attack and defeat either Metal Sonic, Shadow, or Silver the Hedgehog) would often have openings that emulated the intro cutscenes of the games they were from. While some of these were lost on me, I can’t deny that I had an idiotic grin on my face as Sonic and Shadow leapt through the air and posed in front of the moon like they did in Sonic Adventure 2’s intro.   It’s ironic that Sonic Generations can be completed so quickly, because it’s the kind of game that deserves to be savored. There’s more to it that just the basic completion of course, challenges are unlocked for both classic and modern Sonic after a Zone is beaten. These range from simple tasks like racing a doppelganger to the truly bizarre (one of the more questionable missions had me using the Y button to call in Rouge the Bat to use her “feminine wiles” to daze enemy robots so I could destroy them. I wish I was making this up). Each challenge completed unlocks either part or music that can be used as the BGM of any level or challenge.   While it’s certainly not perfect (I still have no idea what the hell I was doing when I fought the last boss, but somehow earned an S-rank when I beat him), Sonic Generations plays off of nostalgia while encouraging the nostalgics to look forward.

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Sega have announced a final set of release dates for some of their Nintendo 3DS games. Some of these dates are the same as previously reported, but others (like Crush 3D) have been changed.   Shinobi – November 15th (U.S.), November 11th (EU) Sonic Generations – November 22nd (U.S.), November 25th (EU) Crush 3D – January 10th (U.S.), January 13th (EU) Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympics – February 14th (U.S.), February 10th (EU)   Another Sega 3DS game slated for 2012 is Rhythm Thief and the Emperor’s Treasure. That game will be released in “early 2012” but doesn’t have a release date yet.

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Along with the main game, the disc for Sonic Generations on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 will also contain a port of the original Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega have announced.

You’ll need to unlock the port before you can play it, though. Completing each Generations stage will earn you points. Once you have enough points, you can go to the in-game Skill Shop and purchase the “Sega Genesis Controller,” which unlocks the game.

Additionally, points can also be spent on infinite continues for Sonic the Hedgehog, once you’ve unlocked the game.

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Sonic's occasionally gun toting rival Shadow the Hedgehog is in Sonic Generations too and he has Chaos Emerald powers. Shadow can use Chaos Control to turn into an arrow of energy and blaze past Sonic. In both versions of Sonic Generations players will race Shadow, but the level design is different.

Sonic Generations for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360

Sonic Generations for Nintendo 3DS

Sonic Generations for consoles has Speed Highway from Sonic Adventure in the game.

The 3DS release also has a cityscape, but this stage is from Sonic Adventure 2. Players will race Shadow on Radical Highway.

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Sega has the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Sonic Generations slated for November 1. The Nintendo 3DS release will come out three weeks later on November 22.

While both titles share the same name in North America, they’re different games with different stages. So far, the only common stage is Green Hill from the original Sonic the Hedgehog. Casino Night from Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Mushroom Hill from Sonic & Knuckles, and Radical Highway from Sonic Adventure 2 are in "Blue Adventure." That’s what the 3DS title is called in Japan – Sonic Generations: Blue Adventure.

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