BIG thanks to Shadow, who sent me a virtually complete transcript of everything said in the Ken Penders chat. Click the link to read it. Highlights will be posted later for those of you who don't want to read the whole thing.
BIG thanks to Shadow, who sent me a virtually complete transcript of everything said in the Ken Penders chat. Click the link to read it. Highlights will be posted later for those of you who don't want to read the whole thing.
Today, at 7pm US Eastern time (4pm Pacific time), Ken Penders will be having an online chat in the chat room at his website.
An "industry insider" has given a site called "GameCube Deluxe" similar info to what we reported several days ago.
This doesn't *PROVE* the rumor, but unless GameCube Deluxe reads this site or got it from the same insider who tipped off Zifei (a developer who has given Zifei info in the past), then that Naka camera boast ("the best camera system ever seen in any platformer ever") is hard to dismiss as a coincidence.
Source: GameCube Deluxe
Chaotix Beta Greenboard & Screenshot
The URL to this site was posted here by someone named "Pokr." It's well-known that Mighty's sprites in Chaotix were edited from Sonic sprites. Well, this site says that Sonic was supposed to be in Chaotix all along. Normally, I'd dismiss this as a hoax, because some elements of what's claimed on the site don't seem very credible (and I doubt the game would say "featuring Knuckles The Echidna" if Sonic was in it, or have the U.S. Sega slogan in a beta version), but that screenshot is rather convincing. I'll leave it up to the reader to decide.
In case you saw the Sonic Advance 2 screenshots here, they've been revealed as a hoax by the person who made them. It's actually a working fan game designed as a hoax.
Zifei just sent me this info over IM but I was away at the time and couldn't get more details. I'll try to find out more ASAP.
- The game's playable characters are Sonic, Shadow, Tails, & Knuckles. All stages will be optimized for Sonic and Shadow. Tails and Knuckes will use these stages in their respective unique ways.
- Next step in camera system evolution or as Naka-san bluntly put it: "The best camera system ever seen in any platformer ever."
- GameCube and X-Box.
How do you make a sequel to a game that can't possibly be improved? Simple: you trim it down.
That's right people. According to this IGN article that Knuckles Dawson was so kind as to point out to me (thereby giving me an excuse to put off my history homework for a few more minutes), it's happened. Sonic Team has made a new NiGHTS into Dreams game for the Game Boy Advance.
Apparently, the new game NiGHTS into Dreams: Score Attack is a condensed version of the original game (obviously focused on high scoring as opposed to anything else), transforming the world into a fully believable 2-D environment with a scrolling bitmap background.
Though I'd still prefer to see a graphically enhanced remake, this is definitely music to my ears. Watch the video. Die happy.
Source: The GHZ
Sonic & Shadow - GBA
Chao Racing - GBA
NOTE: These titles were supposedly "leaked" by someone named "Toad." In other words, this should be considered very much a rumor and not taken seriously at all as official release info.
Thanks to Sonic, Sega Sports, and no more hardware, Sega is recovering nicely.
You can read the full article here.
Source: Gaming Age