Sonic Mania Plus gets a release date! Sega has announced that the awaited Sonic Mania Plus will release on July 17 this year! A new trailer dropped the release date along with some new gameplay footage that includes the two new playable characters, Mighty and Ray. Mania Plus is an updated edition of a digital release […]
Sonic the Hedgehog boardgame set to bolt onto the scene! Sonic HQ has been following the progress of Sonic Battle Racers since it was announced on kickstarter. On our previous article on the game, we reported that it had been fully funded and showed off some of the items that would be included with the game. Recently […]
You might feel old after reading this post. Twenty years ago today, this site sprung forth under the moniker “Sonic HQ” (prior to that it was known as Zifei's Sonic Page) with its own domain at sonichq.org. Unfortunately, we lost that domain over the years but now we have sonichq.net. We're not as popular as we […]
Last month at the Game Developers Conference, Hirokazu Yasuhara (game designer) and Naoto Ohshima (character designer) gave a talk about the history of creating Sonic and the original game. That talk has just been uploaded to the GDC Vault for free! There’s a bunch of neat tidbits in here for fans and developers alike. Look […]
Looks like we’re getting another Sonic game this year in addition to Sonic Mania Plus and the still unannounced Sonic Racing game. Today Sega announced a new mobile game called Mama Robotnik’s Mean Clean Machine! It’s the sequel to Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine which released for the Sega Genesis/Megadrive, Master System and Game Gear nearly 25 […]
Sonic Mania goes packaged with Sonic Mania Plus! Sega hosted a South By Southwest 2018 panel about all things Sonic the Hedgehog, and the panel began with good news for fans! Last year’s Sonic Mania will be getting an expansion! The panel noted that Mania's positive reception was tempered by one consistent complaint: that fans wanted a […]
SEGA is planning to release a new Genesis Collection for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on May 29 that will include over 50 games. It also appears that it will receive a physical release both on the PS4 and Xbox One and will include a double-sided poster. Screenshots and video were uploaded to SEGA’s press […]
What if [Sonic Triple Trouble] became a Genesis/Mega Drive game? Triple Trouble Boxart Remake Noah Copeland, in collaboration with Overbound Game Studio (the same team of fans responsible for Sonic Time Twisted), asks a question: “What if [Sonic Triple Trouble] became a Genesis/Mega Drive game?” Triple Trouble is, in my opinion, the best 8 Bit Sonic […]
20 years of development! If you've played just one Sonic fangame, chances are you've tried out Sonic Robo Blast 2 at some point. Based off of the Doom engine, this game has been in development for 20 years this month! This month, Sonic Robo Blast 2 celebrates its 20th anniversary. Sitting down to write this […]
On the latest episode of Ian’s BumbleKast series, we were let in on a little more info regarding the canon of IDW Sonic. IDW Sonic will have the “two-worlds canon”. This means that, in IDW Sonic canon, there will be the human world that we see in the Adventure games, as well as Sonic’s world. Sonic IDW […]
