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OK, I know right off the bat that this is most likely in the wrong area, but I couldn't find any real email address of a news caddy to contact. Please forgive me.

Anyways, I wanted to say, that while I am grateful that the rest of the Sonic Community is getting to hear about what they never knew in SA2, I'm afraid that the 'clones' idea may be a far bit off. It may have been an error in my translations, but there was one word in the original document that troubled me. It was the word, 'pieces'. It was contained in the last paragraph I was translating, which was at about 5am in the morning. I didn't quite understand what the document meant when it talked about 'Shadow', 'copy' and 'pieces'.

The more I think of this, the more I read what other people thought of this, as they are taking the 'clones' idea a bit too far. I was rather joking about that issue, seems the new Star Wars movie, 'Attack of the Clones' came out recently. I'm sure some person who can read/write and speak Japanese fluiently, as well as English, is laughing at my feeble efforts. ^_^; But, perhaps that last part actually explained that GUN captured the Hedgehog from the pieces(wreakage) of his capusle that hit the planet.

I'm sorry, again, for finding the wrong place to post this, but, I thought I'd try to clear up some things because EVERYONE seems to be off on a tangent, believing Shadow is a clone, now...when I was actually reffering to Sonic as the one who may have been Shadow's clone.

Think about it. Seems Professor Gerald might have been one of the only people to work on the Immortality Research project, he may have also been one of the only people in the world who could 'clone' something. And while GUN had Shadow, they tried many expiraments, and perhaps finally managed in trying to create a clone of him. Or, someone else made a clone of him at one point, if they managed to find something of Shadow's from the crash, and used it to create a clone. -- Point I'm getting at, is I don't think Shadow was a clone. Rouge is just a very big skeptic.

Another heads up from Zifei. There's a new interview with Yuji Naka on the net, but it doesn't have to do with Sonic Team. Naka won a contest held by Japanese car dealer Cornes to promote their new "instant delivery" Ferrari service. The interview is here, but it's in Japanese, so have a translator ready. Xen Gamers has a summary of the details here.

Anyone remember the canceled game Sonic Xtreme that was orginally for 32X, then switched to Saturn THEN switched again to PC and was ultimately canned? What? You didn't now of the PC port? WEEELLL then I supposed you don't know about it's plan to use the NiGHT's engine? Well now you can!

Blaze Hedgehog caught up with the man in charge of the project, Mike Wallis himself! PACHUKA of Sonic Cult performed an interview and found many o interesting things about Sonic Xtreme, including the REAL reason it was canned. The interview can be read on This Page and also on the main page is some actuall music from Sonic Xtreme, which was provided by Chris Senn who was in charge of the PC port.

I know what you're all thinking. DO we get a copy? I will say it's possible, but the Chris Senn interview isn't complete yet, but he IS thinking about it. Stay tuned to Sonic Cult for more info.

Source: Sonic Cult

KojiChao of the StH Area51 MB and other various places, has translated a Japanese document which answers tells many secrets about Sonic Adventure 2 that were't revealed in teh English version. (we always get the shaft)
It also explains why we're hearing about Shadow being in other games when it was believed he had died. You see, there may be actualy several Shadows lurking about... but I'm getting ahead of myself. Here's the story on what she had to say:

Sonic Team is offering some downloads for Windows & Macs called Minitoys. Also, there's a Sonic/Shadow SA2B puzzle on the page. They require Flash to be used.

Also, there are pictures of some new Sonic merchandise available. You have to be in Japan to get it though.

Source: Sonic Team

Three years old, and still cranking! Unvieling it's new web page and annoucing two new sister titles, Other-M celebrates its 3rd Birthday with the lastest issue! Check out the action here.

Two items being offered by Ken Penders:

1) Sonic The Hedgehog #47 Cover Art by Spaz and Harvo. The cover is also autographed by Spaz. Bidding ends on June 15th at 3:09pm Eastern Time (12:09pm Pacific).

2) Sonic The Hedgehog #101 Cover Art by Spaz and Ribeiro. Bidding ends on June 15th at 3:21pm Eastern Time (12:21pm Pacific).

Source: Ken's Comic Book Stories & Art

It looks as if the series 'Sonic Underground' has returned to television in North America. It is airing on TELETOON in Canada at 7:00 A.M. Eastern Monday-Friday. Just thought I'd print it for any SU fans out there.

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.

Apparently, 5 models that were STILL being used in the production of the latest PSO game were stolen at E3, and it's put a monkeywrench into Sonic Team's development of the game. Sonic Team's official comment can be found here.

Source: TSSZ