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  • Here’s A Behind The Scenes Look At Sonic Boom

    Sega surprised everyone earlier this month when it announced a reboot of Sonic called Sonic Boom. The new game ties into a new CG-animated TV series and toy line that will be produced by Sega’s Western branch. While details on the actual game are still scarce, a new video gives us a look at how the project came together.

    First things first – it’s obvious that the team working on Sonic Boom have a deep love and respect for the character of Sonic. For many of them, the original Sonic games were an inspiration when they began to work in the industry. They bring that same love to this project and want to make an action/adventure game that seemingly pulls from older Sonic games like Sonic Adventure 2 as well as Naughty Dog games like Jak and Daxter.

    As for the cartoon, the team reveals that they’re writing a consistent narrative that will build upon previous episodes. In other words, Sonic Boom will be more like Sonic SatAM and less like Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.

    Oh, and those worried over Sonic Boom’s direction need not be concerned. Sonic Team reaffirms in the video above that they will continue making modern Sonic games in the vein of Sonic Lost World alongside the Sonic Boom franchise. We can only hope that their next title is more like Sonic Generations instead of the generally awful Lost World.

    Image via SegaAmerica/YouTube

  • Sonic The Hedgehog Gets A TV Show, Video Game In 2014

    Man, Sonic Lost World was kind of terrible, wasn’t it? It was obvious that Sega missed something in its quest to make Super Sonic Galaxy and ended up moving away from the mostly excellent Sonic Generations. For its next outing, Sega is completely reinventing Sonic again, but in more ways than one.

    Starting this year, Sega will be bringing Sonic back to television with a new TV series for Cartoon Network called Sonic Boom. Here’s Sega’s official statement on the series:

    The Sonic Boom television series, co-produced by SEGA of America Inc. and OuiDO! Productions, will debut on Cartoon Network in the U.S. and on CANAL J and GULLI in France during the 2014/2015 season. The series is an ensemble comedy consisting of 52 x 11-minute standalone episodes packed full of high-adrenaline action. Every episode starts from a small character-driven story and explodes into an epic tale of saving the world, robot battles and more.

    For this new series, all of the characters will be receiving brand new designs:

    Sonic The Hedgehog Gets A TV Show, Video Game In 2014

    For a better look at the TV series, here’s a trailer:

    Sega is going all in on this Sonic Boom business in 2014 by making a video game based on the TV series. It’s set before the events of the television series and features four playable characters – Sonic, Knuckles, Tails and Amy. They feature the same character designs that you see above.

    As for the game itself, it will be developed by Sonic Team and the guys at Red Button Entertainment. Red Button is comprised of ex-Naughty Dog staff that worked on Jak and Daxter so they definitely have experience in crafting platformers. It also happens to be the third game in Sega’s exclusive deal with Nintendo so the game will only be available on the Wii U and 3DS. Here’s the first trailer complete with Skrillex – because that’s what the kids like these days, right?

    Images via Sega Blog

  • Arizona Meteor: Sonic Boom, Streaking Lights Shock Residents

    A meteor explosion shocked some Arizona residents on Tuesday night, Dec 10th, when a loud sonic boom and bright lights streaked across the sky.

    “The explosion could be heard from Tucson to as far away as Las Vegas, Nev.,” ABC15.com reported.

    Apparently it’s just a forerunner to the Geminid meteor shower expected to put on quite a show in the overnight hours from Dec. 13 to 14. Spectators in dark areas should be able to see anywhere from 90 to 120 meteors per hour. Geminid will be located near the constellation Gemini – hence the name – and is one of the most magnificent meteor showers to see.

    “It [the meteor explosion] was picked up by two of our meteor cameras in New Mexico as well as cameras in Arizona and the preliminary trajectory shows that it was definitely not a Geminid,” NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke told reporters Wednesday. “It was moving way too slow and coming from the wrong direction. A Geminid moves at 78,000 mph,” he said. “And the direction it came from was not typical for a meteor from the big shower.”

    But this meteor was a big one – weighing approximately 100 pounds and estimated at 16 inches thick.

    It is not known yet if the meteor hit the ground. Although meteor hunters are scouring the ground in Tuscon, AZ and asking residents to inform Robert Ward, so that they might inspect it to try to determine the course the meteor took.

    ABC15 Chief Meteorologist Amber Sullins said the meteor was likely part of a rare outburst of the Andromedids.

    If you live in the dark sky area and want to observe the Geminids – NASA can tell you where to look, and when! For those without dark skies, a live Ustream feed of the skies over Marshall Space Flight Center will be embedded on the NASA page.

    Image via YouTube

  • Brazilian Jet Fighters’ Sonic Boom Destroys Windows [Video]

    Brazilian Jet Fighters’ Sonic Boom Destroys Windows [Video]

    Every year in Brazil they celebrate something called Praça dos Três Poderes in their capital city. It is an exchanging of the national flag that happens out in front of the Supreme Federal Court building. The awesomely beautiful building has a ton of glass, from head to toe. Part of this celebration was to have 2 Dassault Mirage 2000 fighters do a high speed flyby. They went a little too fast and the ensuing sonic booms completely shattered every pane of glass on that building.

    The spiking air pressure that is caused when an object goes faster than the speed of sound can cause an audible booming noise often referred to as a “sonic boom.” When the sonic boom happens that close to the ground it has the ability to shatter glass. The delta winged Dassault Mirage 2000 has a top speed of mach 2.2 so hitting this was probably an accident, but negligence non the less. I’d be really surprised if the pilots didn’t get in a lot of trouble.

    In a statement, Brig Ar Kanitz Marcelo Damasceno, chief of the Center for Social Communication of the Força Aérea Brasileira (FAB), said that the Brazilian Air Force Command has initiated the investigation of the incident and will compensate the damage caused.

    All I can say is that Guile would be proud.


    Image courtesy of Capcom

    Cover image courtesy of the Department of Defense.