To promote Sonic Mania, SEGA produced a short animated series known as Sonic Mania Adventures. Team Sonic Racing will now be receiving the same treatment.
Announced at SXSW today, Team Sonic Racing Overdrive will be a 2-part animation. Tyson Hesse will be returning to work on the pair of shorts.
During a panel at SXSW today, SEGA unveiled a new customization feature for Team Sonic Racing.
Here’s what we know:
The Sonic the Hedgehog panel from SXSW 2019 will be kicking off not too long from now. The fun starts at 11 AM PT / 2 AM PT / 6 PM in the UK / 7 PM in Europe.
Fortunately, the panel will be live streamed, and you can watch the event as it happens below. At the very least, we should be hearing about Team Sonic Racing and the upcoming Sonic movie. It’s unclear if anything brand new will be shown, but if there is, we’ll have it on the site assuming it’s Nintendo-related.
Nintendo is gearing up for the arrival of even more villagers in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. A silhouette, which teases five new characters, is shown above. Expect them to be added to the game within the next few days.
The third and final wave of online finals for the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate North America Open 2019 tournament will be held today. For those that are interested, all of the matches can be watched through the live stream below.
Note that this is the final wave of online finals before the ultimate final tournament at PAX East 2019. The winners of today’s final will join the winners of the first and second online event finals in the PAX Arena at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on March 30. Moreover, the collective winners from each region will form teams to play Squad Strike in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at the PAX East finals.
Arc System Works published the latest character trailer for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. Find a video focusing on Seth below.
Seth will be available as a DLC fighter in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle on Switch in the future.
Media Create has been the go-to tracker when it comes to Japanese sales data. However, that may very well change following an announcement from the company this week in terms of how it will be handling the information it provides going forward.
In the past, Media Create has published full hardware and software sales from Japan. However, starting in April, the company will only post the top ten software ranking without actual sales numbers. Those who are interested in more specific information will need to work with Media Create directly on a paid basis – meaning the public will essentially be locked out of the data.
What does that mean for us? Well, until the change is made (which will be pretty soon), we’ll continue to use Media Create data. Nothing has been settled for certain, but we’ll likely switch over to Famitsu numbers after that seeing as the two are relatively similar.
Daedalic Entertainment has announced that its sci-fi roguelike RPG The Long Journey Home is on the way to Switch. A release window was not confirmed.
Here’s an overview for the game, along with a trailer:
Limited Run Games has announced a partnership with Nitrome to produce a physical version of Bomb Chicken. Pre-orders open on March 29 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET.
In many cases, Limited Run Games opts to offer a collector’s edition of their releases. With Bomb Chicken though, that won’t be happening. Only a standard version of the game is planned.
