Tag: Takashi Iizuka
News Sonic Team On Remasters: "If There's A Title People Like, We'll Think About It"
What Sonic game would you like to see return?
Sonic X Shadow Generations remasters the original title and adds a brand-new Shadow the Hedgehog campaign. This upcoming release and Sonic Colors Ultimate have led to speculation about what other Sonic games could potentially return in the future, and now Sonic Team's head Takashi Iizuka has responded...
News Sonic Superstars Won't Recycle Locations Like Green Hill Zone
Get ready to visit "never-before-seen environments"
Ahead of the launch of Sonic Origins Plus later this month, Sega has officially lifted the lid on the multiplayer platformer Sonic Superstars. It transports Sonic and his friends to a brand new mystical location known as the North Star Islands. While the gameplay mostly aims to maintain the...
News Takashi Iizuka: SEGA Has "A Lot More" Planned For Sonic The Hedgehog In 2023
A "second wave" of content is already being prepared
It's been an action-packed year for Sonic the Hedgehog, but it seems he won't be slowing down anytime soon. In the same Famitsu interview where Japanese developers look ahead to 2023, Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka has taken a moment to tease what's on the horizon. According to Iizuka, the plan is...
News Takashi Iizuka: 2022 Is Sonic The Hedgehog's "Biggest Year" Ever
Movies, games and more to come!
If you haven't already noticed, there's a lot going on with the blue blur Sonic the Hedgehog this year. So far there's been a movie released, a retro collection and in November we'll be able to get our hands on the new open-zone adventure, Sonic Frontiers. Oh, and there's a new Netflix series coming this winter as...
News Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka Is Doing A Meet And Greet At Gamescom 2022
Sonic Frontiers "world premiere" scheduled for ONL
Next week is Gamescom 2022 and it means Sega fans will finally be getting another look at Sonic Frontiers. If Sonic's appearance at the opening night show wasn't already enough, it seems head of Sonic team Takashi Iizuka will also be at this year's event in Cologne, Germany to do a special meet and...
News Takashi Iizuka Says He Already Knows What The Next Sonic Game Is
Life after Sonic Frontiers...
Sonic Frontiers will take the Sonic the Hedgehog series to new heights with its new "open-zone" design. It's also meant to pave the way for blue blur over the next decade. With this in mind, Game Informer recently sat down with head of Sonic team, Takashi Iizuka - asking him a bunch of rapid-fire questions. One, in...
News Takashi Iizuka: Sonic Frontiers Is Sonic's "Next Step For The Next 10 Years"
"This is the third generation, almost"
Head of Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka, has previously mentioned on a number of occasions how the "key point" in the history of the Sonic series was the jump from 2D to 3D gameplay. Now, later this year, Sega will take the Sonic the Hedgehog series to new heights with "open-zone" gameplay in Sonic Frontiers. It's...
News Takashi Iizuka Admits The Sonic 2022 Reveal Was Probably A Bit Too Early
But Sega had to do something for the 30th anniversary
In May this year, Sega held a special live stream broadcast celebrating 30 years of the blue blur. The final announcement of the show was an incredibly brief teaser of a brand new Sonic the Hedgehog action game coming out in 2022. As you might recall, it showed a brief clip of Sonic running...
News Takashi Iizuka Suggests Sonic's 2022 Outing Will Be An "Advancement" Of Modern Sonic Games
Taking the blue blur to the next level
In May, Sega held a special Sonic Central broadcast for the blue blur's 30th anniversary. The live stream went out with a brief teaser of the next mainline entry in the series. While details are still scarce, during an interview with Game Informer recently, Sonic Team's head Takashi Iizuka noted how the team...
News Sega Wants To Take "Good Care" Of 2D And 3D Sonic In The Future
Takashi Iizuka reassures fans
Can you believe it? Sonic the Hedgehog is almost 30 years old. With this in mind, Sega wants to start looking after the blue blur a little more. This was mentioned by Sega's Aaron Webber earlier this year in May - when he said the company wanted to put "more time" into each of its Sonic video games, rather than rush...
News Sonic Team "Now Preparing" For The Blue Blur's 30th Anniversary
Expect a "big year"
In March, Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka confirmed the development of the next entry in the mainline Sonic the Hedgehog series was officially underway. Since then, there's been no other information about this game. When Iizuka caught up with Game Informer at E3 2019 last week, he was queried about the next major entry in the...
Better than before
Sonic the Hedgehog has struggled to live up to expectations for a long time now. Unlike Nintendo's mascot, Mario, Sonic's adventures haven't always worked out, mostly because of his "gotta go fast" attitude and take on life. Fortunately, this all changed in 2017, when Christian Whitehead was given free run by Sega and...
News Team Sonic Racing Is The Same Experience Across All Platforms
"There are no Switch specific features"
When it comes to multi-platform video game releases, certain systems often receive bonus content such as extra items, exclusive characters and additional modes. When Sega's Team Sonic Racing arrives on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC in May, there won't be any favouritism. During an...
News Takashi Iizuka Confirms The Next Sonic Title Is Already In Development
Gotta go fast
If the video clips for Team Sonic Racing weren't already satisfying enough, the head of Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka, has confirmed the next big entry in the mainline Sonic series is officially underway. The announcement was made during a panel at SXSW Gaming 2019. Other than this, no other information is currently known about the new...
News Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka Wants To Remake Sonic Adventure
Reviving a classic
Arguably one of the standout Sonic games is the 1998 Dreamcast release, Sonic Adventure. This was Sonic's first mainline outing to feature 3D visuals and went on to become the best-selling title on the system. In a recent interview with Retro Gamer about the Dreamcast classic, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka mentioned how this...
News Head of Sonic Team Has Some Surprise Announcements To Share At This Year's Comic-Con
What are you hoping for?
It was only a few weeks ago SEGA was celebrating Sonic's birthday in Tokyo at a live steam event and soon it will be revealing even more surprises regarding the blue blur's upcoming plans at a panel at this year's Comic-Con. Scheduled for 19th July between the hours of 2:00 - 3:00 pm, the 'Sonic the Hedgehog's Way Past Cool...
"I want to make more, rather than just simply one zone"
Wii U title Sonic Lost World was recently given some DLC-love with special Yoshi and Zelda-themed levels, and producer Takashi Iizuka has been speaking to 4gamer about how
Sonic veteran Takashi Iizuka speaks out
Sonic Boom is the big news in the world of Nintendo at the moment, with Sega's new plan of attack covering TV, toys and games — the latter of which will be exclusive to Wii U and 3DS. Thrusting its most prized possession into the hands of a western developers is risky, and Sega's move has had many fans...