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Upon my regular visit to www.dcwarez.com, my jaw dropped as I noticed that all the goodies of information of upcomming released pirated games were, well, gone. The front page was only left with this message:

"Due to legal issues, www.dcwarez.com is suspended until further notice. However, a full statement will be issued regarding the future of this site in several days."

Well slap me silly and call me a raving lunatic on drugs; SEGA has gotten to the second best "DC Scene" site on the web. However, one question pops up to everyones minds;

Why?

If anyone who visited www.dcwarez.com would know, they didn't contain any material which would be illegal in SEGA's eyes. No game covers, no illegal Dreamcast boot disk, no links to places to get the ripped games, nothing. All they really had was information on the next upcoming games that were ripped by the groups of DC hackers, and nothing more. Therefore, why is SEGA attempting to shut dcwarez.com down?

I'm not clear on the whole legal issues, but I'm sure what SEGA is doing is wrong. Nevertheless, it's still good to see that they're stomping down and setting the line to people out there who are attempting to release more pirated games online, and saying, "No more." Yet, will this be enough to stop it?

Not a chance. More and more sites pop up at least every week or so about the whole "DC Scene." Rest assured, the piracy of Dreamcast games will go on, but at least SEGA is trying their best to rid of it all.

Hello from me, with the news from this weekend. Today, release dates, hack threats, and Naomi 2.

T'is your friendly SHQ Special Reporter here with some grand news. As reported, new screenshots have been released on SonicTeam.com, but ALSO on the english site! Also tells about Sonic's new move, "The Grind" where he can slide down rails and other places. COOL MOVES!

Source: SonicTeam.com

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Shakka To Tamborine, A Game which looks mysteriously similar to Samba De Amigo, was reported as a game made by Sonic team themselves. However, during a chat with some top japanese blokes (I'm in their Chat! WHEE! and with My Translator on ;P) which I think include members of the Sonic Team themselves (although I don't think they even noticed that I posted links to Sonic BETA shots :)) That Skahha is NOT made by Sonic Team, but a Mystery Developer, who is most probably using the same engine.

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And while chatting, it has come to me that the Japanese are much more calmer in Chats then in english speaking chats, where you have trash talk. Also they aggree that The SonicTeam USA seem to be Lazy with their live Camera, and that Ozisoft are not very good :D

This comes straight from Ken's MB:

Are you taking a deep breath, Rick? Better sit down, as I announce that the story THE CHOSEN ONE is now on the schedule. Regretably, it won't be the 66-page epic originally planned, but it was either do it in 24 or nothing, so I accepted the conditions and put it on track. The storyline will see print in SONIC #94 - 96, followed by the return of the Dark Legion in SONIC #97 - 99, which leads into the SONIC/KNUCKLES crossover in #100. Look for the return of Dimitri as Enerjak, as well as other surprises.

As for SONIC #100, discussions have begun on what the story will be like, and this much I can say: it'll be a full-length story featuring practically every character we can shove in there, it'll be written by both Karl and myself, and I'll probably be handling some of the art, but not sure what or how much just yet.

What it won't have: any weddings or engagements involving anyone from Knothole Village. Justin, Karl and I have been discussing the issue at length, and it was decided that most, if not all of the characters considered -- Sonic, Sally, Antoine, and Bunnie -- are simply too young for any serious relationships beyond simply dating. (I had been a proponent for at least Antoine and Bunnie getting engaged, but I'm afraid that is one aspect where I simply may have let all the fan interaction get to me, and just wanted that monkey off my back. You have no idea how tiring it gets to receive e-mail practically every day asking when Sonic and Sally are going to get married. When Justin and karl made their case against it, I couldn't help but agree. It would be wrong for the series to proceed any further in that direction at this time.)

I'll have much more to say at my online chat. See you there.

This info REALLY clears up a lot of questions from fans regarding the comic. Well, for me, anyway :?

Source: Ken Penders' Message Board

The development site has changed a little now they are doing songs from other Sonic Team games and some japanise bloke put a note in front of the cam!

It's been fun running a large website for a while, but now it's just annoying and too much pressure. I have a job, a life, and whatnot and I can't be bothered to update it every day and put up with the weirdos who bug me. Anyway, If you would like to become a part of the SoL staff (the job I do) email me and SHOW me how you are qualified. Don't just tell me. Give me a URL to your site or something. HTML knowledge is REQUIRED! If you wish to see what alll you'd be running, go to this page and look under Sonique. I also run a few things on other pages such as music and the dictionary. If you can run most, that's also okay as I may stick around and run something. Thank you for your time :)

I don't think anyone else has noticed this, but in the new screen shots from Sonic Adventure 2, in the one where Sonic is jumping out of the helicopter, there is a pair of handcuffs attached to one of his wrists. (the one on the right side of the picture.) Now, considering we know that there is some kind of a dark or evil Sonic in this game, this pretty much confirms that at some point, Sonic will be framed and arrested, then escape. The helicopter could be a police copter, and maybe GUN stands for some kind of made up law agency in the game.