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Sega of America have released a gameplay video from the upcoming Sonic Rush for the Nintendo DS. The video features some gameplay from a forrest-like level, as well as the fully 3D boss battle.

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Sonic VS Shadow- Round 2, wtih the whole planet at stake! And Tails is finding himself in over his head in the Nameless Zone...

SONIC THE COMIC #235
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In the latest (June) issue of Britain's Nintendo Official Magazine, an E3 investigation has revealed that Blaze will play a key role in the new Sonic Rush game as the Queen of an alternate dimension to Sonic's usual world...

From Archie's Press Releases:

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #153
Ships 08/24. 32-page, full color comic, $2.25 US. "SONGOOSE Pt 1": SONIC fan favorites Karl Bollers and Ron Lim team up again for another marvelous adventure! Sonic's day is about to go from dizzying to deadly when he faces off against one of the deadliest assassins on the planet: Nack the Weasel! Can even the combined might of the entire Freedom Fighters stop the Nack attack?! As if that weren't enough, Sonic must race to save his old girlfriend, Mina the Mongoose... but will her new boyfriend's jealousy put Mina and Sonic in even greater danger?! All this, plus Robotnik, too! SCRIPT: Karl Bollers. ART: Ron Lim (pencils) and Jim Amash (inks). PLUS: another thrilling Sonic back up feature!

SONIC X Mini-Series
SONIC X starts off with a boom! When an evil plot by EGGMAN, with sidekicks DECOE and BOCOE put hundreds in danger attempting to empty the bank vault of all its cash, DR. EGGMAN hopes to gain more bucks for bigger, badder Obots! Trapped in the bank are SONIC's friend Chris and his family! Only SONIC can save the day with help from KNUCKLES, AMY, CHEESE AND TAILS! Things go from bad to worse when a strange energy is threatening the entire seaboard, is it a Chaos Emerald? Or is it something much more dangerous? Worst of all the mystery is at the bottom of the ocean, and SONIC can't swim! By Joe Edkin (writer), Tim Smith 3 (penciler), Andrew Pepoy (inker), Ben Hunzeker (colorist) and Patrick "SPAZ" Spaziante (covers). $2.25 US/$2.65 CAN and printed on coated stock paper.

Sega's Japan website now has an equivalent to Sonic Central. It includes links to new websites of the latest Sonic games with new screens.

Sonic Channel

More info. Sonic Rush is set to be released in late 2005. {what's the actual definition of 'late'?}. Also, E3 shows a movie of the Sonic title on the new Xbox console, which is the exclusive title reported. It shows Sonic in the most realistic Green Hill to date {Green Hill again!?} and is set to run in real time. Got this from Sonic News, but no movie is avaliable to see.

According to Sega's E3 site, Sonic Gems Collection will see a PS2 release only in Europe. And according to IGN, Japan will get the Gamecube and PS2 version as well but no news of a US PS2 release yet, only Gamecube.

Not much, except that it's been confirmed that Sonic R will be in Sonic Gems Collection. Sonic R Extreme may have had a basis then.

Right before E3 opened, Sega announced that Sonic will be making another appearance on selected mobile phones later this year. According to Sega, Sonic Mobile will first be available as an embedded game in Panasonic's upcoming VS3 smart phone, which will be released across Europe this summer, with other Panasonic models to follow in both Europe and Japan. Sonic Mobile will feature the same levels and controls as the original Genesis game, minus the bonus stages. Sega has also indicated the game will feature music from the first Sonic game. Screenshots of the game indicate a highly accurate reproduction in terms of graphical fidelity, although Sega has added bars to the top and bottom of the screens to preserve the original's aspect ratio.

Source: Gamespot

Archie's Sonic The Hedgehog #149 is on sale in comic shops starting today.

Source: Diamond Comics