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A livestream has been announced for Sonic/SEGA related themes, which will be focused on the latest news, upcoming projects, partnerships and events that we can expect for 2023. Not much is known about what could possibly be showcased in this event, but Sonic Central 2023 is also celebrating the anniversary of Sonic The Hedgehog, so we could expect some extra info on what SEGA has in store for the blueblur throughout the year.

The event will begin on June 23rd, 8am PT / 11am ET.
And it begins!

• Sonic Origins Plus releases today, and they showcase the new glimpse for it.
  We get to see gameplay with all characters, some of the Game Gear games that are getting added, as well as a brief look into Super Amy.
  
  
• Sonic Frontiers is up next, and there's a birthday thematic Bash Update that will be featured into it, in celebration of Sonic's Anniversary. It will feature new challenges, new moves like the Spin Dash, new collectible Koco, a New Game+, and all of these for free in the new update.
  
  
• Roblox will have new Sonic content.
  
  
• Sonic Prime will return to Netflix on July 13th, with new scenes showing Shadow and Sonic.
  
  
• Sonic Prime Dash is debuting alongside the new season of Sonic Prime, for mobiles on July 13th.
  
  
• Super Silver will be available for both Sonic Forces and Sonic Dash, as well as Dragon Hunter Lancelot (Shadow) for both Sonic Dash and Sonic Dash+ on Apple Arcade, available in July
  
  
• Samba de Amigo will also have some Sonic themes, like "Escape from the City" as a song and City Escape as a stage.
  
  
• Sonic Symphony World Tour is about to kickoff in London. Paris, Los Angeles, Sau Paulo, Tokyo, Boston, Chicago and many more cities will be available for the symphony. Visit the Sonic Symphony Official website to know the exact dates and places where it will be available.
  
  
• Tails Tube, a Tails centric streaming channel on Youtube is showcased, and a small gig based on it
  
  
• New Sonic merchandise is shown:
  • A Death Egg Play Set including Eggman and Sonic.
  • New Sonic crocs will also be available, inspired by Sonic's shoes.
  • Hypland will have a collaboration with Sonic, to have some exclusive t-shirts, rugs and other stuff with Sonic characters and themes, available on June 26th.
  • Some new Sonic and Shadow Cable Guys stands for gaming accessories will also available today.
  • S-Fire statues for Sonic and Shadow will be available.
  • Sonic themed ESP guitars will become available soon.
  • Igloo Sonic Playmates, Sonic based coolers will be available right now.
  • IDW comics are also celebrating Sonic's and Amy's birthday, with a new Amy-centric comic release.
  • San Diego Comic Con will feature a Sonic the Hedgehog restaurant.
  • Lego sets based on Sonic are shown too, with a small comical musical gig by Lego Eggman, available August 1st.
• Sonic Superstars features the original Sonic character designers, Ohshima and Iizuka, back and we get an interview with them. They also talk about the return of Fang the Sniper into the game and will feature online 4 coop gameplay.
  • Sonic Superstars will also feature a Lego Eggman skin by preordering the game.
• Legoland will also have some tickets and other stuff for Sonic Superstars.
  
  
• Sonic 3 (The Movie) is coming, as well as the new Knuckles series. They are only mentioned though, so no new trailers.

And that's a wrap! What are you most excited out of everything showcased in the Sonic Central event?

 

[Kevbo]

but Sonic Central 2023 is also celebrating the anniversary of Sonic The Hedgehog​

So we got Sonic 06 but what about Sonic 23?


EDIT: Terrible Livestream so far. THIS is the best thing I have seen so far...

Sonic is feeding us a bunch of BS.

 

[k7ra]

With new bugs, no thank you!

 

[Bladexdsl]

bunch of absolute garbage so far. sonic crocs you got to be fucking kidding me sega sinking to a new low

 

[Metoroid0]

With new bugs, no thank you!

I played Origins from beginning to the end. I saw no bugs, except one. Really not that drastic to OCD over. Game was great!
I played Switch version though, and with patches.

 

[Bladexdsl]

o god no now there's a rap....
instead of showing more footage of superstars we get more overpriced plastic lego crap...

WORST DIRECT EVA!

 

[ShadowOne333]

With new bugs, no thank you!

Many people have been saying several of the current known bugs with Origins have been getting fixed with the latest 2.0 update, the drop dash for Sonic 1 and 2 is fixed, as well as some physics issues from Sonic 3. I'm sure other things might have been fixed as well.

 

[Small Kat]

More like Lego Central.

 

[k7ra]

I played Origins from beginning to the end. I saw no bugs, except one. Really not that drastic to OCD over. Game was great!
I played Switch version though, and with patches.

*After some patches
It's become much better

 

[64bitmodels]

o god no now there's a rap....
instead of showing more footage of superstars we get more overpriced plastic lego crap...

WORST DIRECT EVA!

not taking it from you, you're never satisfied with anything

 

[Bladexdsl]

What are you most excited out of everything showcased in the Sonic Central event?

absolutely fucking nothing. what do we have some shitty mobile games, crappy shit merchandise, a terrible rap and more shitty overpriced waste of plastic sets. where's the new sonic superstars footage sega that's what everyone was hoping to see not this TRASH?! nintendos direct was better than this even!!

 

[Metoroid0]

not taking it from you, you're never satisfied with anything

Maybe dude has standards...
And it's really hard to be satisfied with anything these days, since objectively many things are crap.
Good luck finding actual good things among bunch of craps.

 

[Vorde]

absolutely fucking nothing. what do we have some shitty mobile games, crappy shit merchandise, a terrible rap and more shitty overpriced waste of plastic sets. where's the new sonic superstars footage sega that's what everyone was hoping to see not this TRASH?! nintendos direct was better than this even!!

While I agree on the plastic sets being lame, it would be nice if they released multiple high quality resin statues or figures of the Sonic characters.
Also saying "Nintendo's direct was better than this even!" IMHO is kinda silly, as they did some insanely hype reveals for content that hasn't had anything paid attention to it in around 15 years.
Anyway, it could be a lot worse, let's just hope the new game is awesome!

 

[MikaDubbz]

In other words, a whole lot of nothing.

 

[James_]

bunch of absolute garbage so far. sonic crocs you got to be fucking kidding me sega sinking to a new low

>crocs
>"holy fucking shit sonic the hedgehog is hot garbage sega is ruined"

A bit of an overreaction, not gonna lie.

Oh, as for my opinion: it was fine. I pretty much went in knowing that not much was going to be announced since Origins Plus literally released today and Superstars was already announced 2 weeks back. If they saved Superstars' announcement for this, it would've made this way better, but I think they made the right choice announcing it at SGF instead as a lot more eyes were on that than this.

Still odd that they didn't show much else though, other than the Birthday update for Frontiers. You'd think they would've shown a trailer for Update 3 (the one with the new story mode and playable characters), although I guess they're still hard at work on that for the time being.

Was worth it for the LEGO Eggman rap, at least.

"gonna hit a pencil, hit Sonic oh yes
hit a coffee cup, spill it on the desk"

 

[PacBunnyXV07]

I think overreacting to the mundane things SEGA is doing to Sonic is overrated.

 

[MikaDubbz]

>crocs
>"holy fucking shit sonic the hedgehog is hot garbage sega is ruined"

A bit of an overreaction, not gonna lie.

Oh, as for my opinion: it was fine. I pretty much went in knowing that not much was going to be announced since Origins Plus literally released today and Superstars was already announced 2 weeks back. If they saved Superstars' announcement for this, it would've made this way better, but I think they made the right choice announcing it at SGF instead as a lot more eyes were on that than this.

Still odd that they didn't show much else though, other than the Birthday update for Frontiers. You'd think they would've shown a trailer for Update 3 (the one with the new story mode and playable characters), although I guess they're still hard at work on that for the time being.

Was worth it for the LEGO Eggman rap, at least.

"gonna hit a pencil, hit Sonic oh yes
hit a coffee cup, spill it on the desk"

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I would have thought that if they're going to do a Direct, that they would have something of substance to present. I didn't think another core 3D game since Frontiers still has DLC coming, nor another core 2D game since they just announced that obviously. But I was thinking, maybe a remaster of a game like Unleashed, or a 2-in-1 Sonic Adventure Collection, or some sort of spinoff game, like another racing game. Instead, it really was, just a whole lot of nothing.

 

[jesus96]

Eh not bad,i would love to see frontiers new story teaser and some new zones for superstars but fine i guess

I just hate how sonic prime is still on season 1 instead of doing another one and using the first one for a whole year....

 

[skribbzthepirate]

Can I get a happy fucking birthday, anyone?

 

[SexiestManAlive]

Can I get a happy fucking birthday, anyone?

happy bday king