Buzzbomber looked around the Sonic Team image index and found more pics & info on Sonic Team's 2 new characters.
Apparently, this character can use Cheese as a weapon. (Feel free to use this phrase out of context for amusement. :P)
You can see MORE pics and discuss this here.
Source: Sonic Team
All the sites hosted on atlantiscity.net seem to be down, including the forum's images. Shayne Thaymes hasn't been seen online, so we can't get a comment on this.
Kedzie K (yes, tSF is coming back) compiled this transcript of what Ken said and sent it to me. So, no, he hasn't disappeared. ;)
Tokyo Game Show upcoming titles
Sonic Adventure 3 will be previewed at the Tokyo Game Show (September 20-22), at least according to GameForms. Supposedly, it will be available for multiple platforms. BTW, it's most likely that it's coming out next year, as a Sega stockholders' report said that a new Sonic game would release in 2003.
Mega Man is leading Sephiroth by a tiny margin in today's GameFAQs character poll. Head to GameFAQs to show your support!
However, Sonic is out. In yesterday's poll, Samus defeated Sonic by only 34 votes.
Mega Man has defeated Serious Sam with a landslide 93% victory in the GameFAQs character battle. He's up against Sephiroth next!
Sonic is on today's poll at GameFAQs and is currently narrowly beating Tidus from FFX.
No, Team Artail didn't close, but they no longer own the artail.net domain. The new URL is http://www.teamartail.com (although it seems to be down at the time I'm writing this).
True Red Edit: The DNS was cleared recently. It'll be a few days before the site works for everyone.
GameForms has the new Japanese commercial for Rockman & Forte available for download.
This can definitely be considered purely a rumor, since we've seen no evidence to back it up (yet) - it was posted on the IGN boards. Supposedly, Sonic Team told a Japanese magazine that the GameCube SA port would have more improvements than SA2:Battle did.