Giveaway Prizes

As Flame said before, the Facebook and Twitter Giveaway are celebrating Sonic's 18th birthday. I, Shadow the Plumber, am going to tell you all the prizes in the giveaway:

Twitter (EUROPE/PAL ONLY GIVEAWAY)
NiGHTS Cameo Pack - NiGHTS Journey Of Dreams Soundtrack Sampler & SEGA Circular Keyring
Summer Of Sonic T-Shirt (L) - Its the last one I have from the 2008 Sonic Convention.
Sonic 3 360 Marketplace Redemption Code
Sonic Chronicles Pack - Archie’s Sonic The Hedgehog Comic - #191 and Sonic Chronicles DS Tin (UK version)
Sonic Christmas Chaos Pack - Sonic Chocolate Advent Calender (chocs are still good before you ask!) and SEGA Circular Keyring
Sonic X Kids Pack - Cream Mini-Plush Toy, MatchBox Convoy Rig and Sonic X Kid’s Toothbrush
Mario & Sonic Prize Pack 1 - M&S Summer A3 Poster and Enamel Pin Badge
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity Pack - SR:ZG T-shirt (L) and Sticker Set
The Old & The New Pack - Sonic Unleashed (PS2) & SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (Xbox 360)

Facebook
SEGA Stationary Pack - SEGA Writing Block, Post-It Block & SEGA Circular Keyring
Sonic 06 Pack - Sonic 06 Mug & Sonic Kids T-Shirt (M) - Kind of peculiar one this one as it has the Sonic 06 logo and the SatSR artworks - but with the ring whited out!
Super PS3 Unleashed DLC Pack - Redeemable PS3 DLC Codes for Apotos, Holoska, Chun-Nan & Spagonia
Sonic Rush Adventure Pack - Sonic Rush Adventure, Skull & Crossbones T-Shirt (M) and Compass Keyring
Mario & Sonic Prize Pack 2 - M&S Summer A3 Poster, Enamel Pin Badge & Red M&S Tracksuit (S)
Sonic & The Secret Rings Pack - SatSR T-Shirt Signed By Sonic Team Members and SatSR Sountrack Sampler

Sonic's Birthday Giveaway!

As you can see in my previous post, today is Sonic's 18th birthday.

SEGA Europe will be celebrating it with a huge giveaway! And it will be hosted nowhere else than Facebook and Twitter! Ya, that's right. Click here for more information!

Happy Birthday Sonic!

Our beloved hedgehog is celebrating his 18th anniversary today! That's right, Sonic the Hedgehog for Mega Drive was released in June 23rd, 1991 in the US, while in Japan the game only got there in 26 of July!

I, Flame the Fox, and the whole Green Hill Zone crew wish you a Happy Birthday, Sonic the Hedgehog!

Sonic 3 in XBLA for free!

You can get Sonic the Hedgehog 3 on Xbox Live Arcade for free! Yes, that's right and here's what you have to do is go to SEGA’s Sonic the Hedgehog facebook around 8PM GMT (Noon PDT), get the code they are giving out, and be the first one to enter it in your Xbox360, because the first person to enter the code, is the only one who gets it! You have a chance to get it everyday! Wasn't the first today? Try tommorrow! G'luck to all of you!

Sonic & Sega All-Star Racing Impression

N-Sider did a impression of the upcoming Sonic and Sega racing game Sonic and Sega All-Star Racing. Some characters are confirmed so far:

Sonic the Hedgehog series: Sonic, Tails, Eggman, Amy, Shadow, and Big

Super Monkey Ball series: AiAi

Samba de Amigo series: Amigo

And the stages Seaside Hill (Sonic Heroes) and Blizzard Castle (Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg) are confirmed. Here's the link to the impression:

http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=3899

RUMORS: Birdo in Olympic Winter Games?

As one of the Super Mario Wiki users, I found one user on the wiki uploaded a Birdo picture that may or may not be from the upcoming Mario & Sonic game, but the sysops and some users on the wiki believe it to be fake and took the picture off of the Olympic Winter Games article. It's hard to tell if this picture is really made by Nintendo and Sega or someone just created it to fool people. Let's wait until Sega confirm if the picture is real or not. Here's the picture:

Release date of Let's Tap and Let's Catch in Europe

Sega and Prope confirmed the new Let's Tap and Let's Catch is going to release this Friday in Europe:

SEGA® Europe Ltd. and SEGA America, Inc. today announced they have shipped LET’S TAP™ for Nintendo Wii™, which will be available at retail for £24.99. Another Wii exclusive, LET’S CATCH™, Yuji Naka’s second title from his Prope studio, will be available for download from the Nintendo Channel store on the day of the LET’S TAP release - 19th of June 2009.

Blazing new ground in the Nintendo Wii™ control design allows LET’S TAP players to simply tap their fingers on the Wii remote, giving hours of simple unadulterated fun. LET’S CATCH brings the time-honoured game of catch into players homes but with some creative new twists! LET’S TAP and LET’S CATCH are the first two products developed by Prope, the studio that Sonic the Hedgehog™ creator Yuji Naka established in 2006.


“We’re very excited to offer this new and innovative way of playing with the Wii” says Gary Knight, European Marketing Director SEGA Europe. “Let’s Tap and Let’s Catch have made outstanding use of the creative technology available on this platform, making gaming easy for all generations and levels of players.”

Developed exclusively for Nintendo’s Wii™ system, LET’S TAP utilises a ground-breaking control scheme whereby the Wii remote is placed on a box or flat surface so it can detect minute vibrations. Consumers of all ages and skill levels then tap the box or flat surface to interact with the game, so there’s no need to hold the controller!

LET’S TAP presents an assortment of different finger-tapping challenges for players to master, in Tap Runner differing finger tapping pressure makes simple stick figure racers run through an obstacle course, whilst Visualizer allows users to create dazzling fireworks, dramatic paint strokes and other effects as they tap out different rhythm patterns corresponding to different effects. Silent Blocks finds players taking turns removing blocks from a large stack, but tapping too hard will result in a collapsing stack of blocks. Bubble Voyager allows players to fly through space, blasting obstacles and enemies in order to reach the far stretches of the universe, and finally Rhythm Tap sees players tapping their fingers in time to high energy music.

LET’S CATCH is a new twist on the game of catch with six different single and multiplayer modes to play. Excelling through good timing and hand-eye coordination, players will find themselves playing games that range from passing a bomb before it explodes; testing their ability to catch a fast ball, and challenging throwing accuracy.

LET’S TAP and LET’S CATCH were developed at Prope Tokyo. For more information on both titles please visit www.sega.com/letstap

New Metal Sonic toy in Toys R Us and Comic-Con

The popular Sonic rival and badnik Metal Sonic toy is out today at Toys R Us and going to be at the next month's Comic-Con. Here's a picture of the toy:

New Unleashed Empire City & Adabat DLC

Sega released new Empire City and Adabat stages in Xbox Live and PlayStation Store for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 Sonic Unleashed verisons. For the PlayStation 3 verison, the stages cost $2.99 and have 5 day stages and 4 night stages. For the Xbox 360 verison, the stages worth 250 MS Points and have the same stages like the PlayStation 3 have.

Let's Tap and Let's Catch released

Today, Prope released both Let's Tap for Nintendo Wii and Let's Catch for the WiiWare in North America. Let's Tap is going at a $29.99 price tag while Let's Catch worth 1,000 Nintendo Points. The European release date is announced for Summer 2009.

Brand New Sonic Unleashed verison

Sonic Unleashed released for Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3. Now, Gameloft are creating Sonic Unleashed for the mobile phone. Here's the E3 trailer of the game:

More Sonic Unleashed News & Previews

The new Olympic Winter Games Website

Sega remodeled the offical Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games website. They added the game infomation and sports for both Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS/DSi, added infomation about the characters on Team Sonic and Team Mario, and added the trailers and screenshots. Here's the link of the website:

http://www.olympicvideogames.com/mario-and-sonic-winter/

New Characters in Olympic Winter Games

If you played the first Mario & Sonic game, you'll remember the characters in it. In the upcoming Olympic Winter Games, there's two new Team Sonic and one new Team Mario character confirmed. Here's the list of characters:

Team Mario: Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Peach, Daisy, Bowser, Wario, Waluigi, and Donkey Kong (New)

Team Sonic: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Amy, Eggman, Blaze, Vector, Metal Sonic (New), and Silver (New)

Sega and Nintendo confirmed Donkey Kong and Metal Sonic on the E3 trailer while Silver's flag was spotted in the background of a screenshot.

Welcome back Green Hill Zone

I know I haven't updated the blog for months, but now I'm back and going to update the music, pictures, quotes, and get more new Sonic infomation. Sorry everyone