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13-06-2025
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Sonic's Takashi Iizuka dunks on Mario Kart World as Sonic Racing: Crossworlds unveils Hatsune Miku, Persona 5, and Minecraft Steve
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Sega has revealed a new trailer for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds at Summer Game Fest 2025, which confirmed that the spirit of the all-timer Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed is alive and well. The new Sonic racer features a host of Sega guest characters like Hatsune Miku, Persona 5's Joker, and most importantly, Ichiban Kasuga from the Yakuza series... oh, and Minecraft's Steve and Alex are there, too, cause why not? The racer is set to launch on September 25 on PS4, Xbox One, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Nintendo Switch, and it's also been confirmed for the new Nintendo Switch 2. Note that the PC and current-gen console versions are more expensive. Sega says via a press release, though, that "there will be a paid upgrade path available for owners of the Nintendo Switch version." After the trailer debuted, Sonic's dad – Sega developer Takashi Iizuka – decided to throw hands at "another kart racing game" by announcing that Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will have online cross-play. This was presumably a dig at Mario Kart World, which is odd, since that game is only on Switch 2... unless there was another recently released, major kart racing game we don't know about. Despite not mentioning it at the show, the game's Steam page confirmed that the Minecraft characters will be included as a part of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Season Pass. With every subsequent DLC getting two characters, except for one which gets four. There's also a Sonic Prime pack with variants of Knuckles, Tails, and Amy from the Netflix series coming at launch. So to get all the characters you'll need the Digital Deluxe version which is $90, so maybe don't throw shade at Mario Kart so soon. Shockingly, Sega did not mention CrossWorlds containing SpongeBob SquarePants or other Nickelodeon series (more like SoNick am I right?) like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which were leaked for the game as DLC over the past few weeks. Minecraft characters also leaked alongside these other characters, so I'd wager we might be seeing SpongeBob drifting before too long, anyway. Make sure to check out Summer Game Fest 2025 schedule so you don't miss any new game reveals.
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13-06-2025
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"It looks like Nintendo did a good job" – Sonic boss Takashi Iizuka says Mario Kart World looks more like an action game, whereas Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds "really" focuses on racing and competitive play
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. I'd hate to be the guy who releases a kart racing game months after Mario Kart World, but Sonic the Hedgehog's dad Takashi Iizuka isn't phased, and says Mario's newest game is a different beast from Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. Speaking to GamesRadar+ at Summer Game Fest 2025, Iizuka admits he hasn't yet had a go of the Switch 2 racer, but "from the videos, it looks like Nintendo did a good job of putting in a lot of fun, so it's more of like an action game. I see a lot of that coming through." And to be fair, some of the wild tech that players are pulling off in Mario Kart does have the vibes of an action game. But as for Sonic, the team at Sega is going for a different vibe. "Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds game is different in that it was made by the Sega arcade racing team along with the Sonic Team" Iizuka says, adding "the focus really is on racing and on that competitive play." He also speaks about the central mechanic of CrossWorlds in which you travel between different realms mid-race, "having the travel rings kind of change up the race every time you race. So even if you're playing the same course, you're going to have a different experience." He adds: "And there's something really different in the kart racing genre that we think everyone's going to get really excited about." Iizuka also talked about cross-platform play being important to the team (something that was used as a dig at "another kart racing game" during its Summer Game Fest reveal). "So cross platform play is in there, and you can go ahead and race and have that competitive experience against anyone on any platform. That really makes it exciting." Plus, Sonic Racing has Ichiban Kasuga from Yakuza and is rumored to be getting SpongeBob down the line, so suddenly that Cow isn't looking as cool as before. Mario Kart World players have found the optimal way to unlock every vehicle, and it involves driving slowly behind a pedestrian car for 25 minutes.
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07-06-2025
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Best Summer Game Fest 2025 trailers: Mortal Shell 2, Stranger Than Heaven & more
Watch all the most interesting trailers from the biggest summer preview event of the year, including Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, Code Vein 2, and Wu-Tang: Rise Of The Deceiver. You never know what you're going to get with Summer Game Fest, the would-be replacement for E3 hosted by The Games Awards creator Geoff Keighley. Some years there's tons of big name reveals and some years it's mostly just AA and indie titles. This is one of those years. That doesn't mean there was nothing of interest, but the mic drop reveal at the end of the two hour long show was Resident Evil Requiem, and it was by far the biggest game to be featured. Despite being only a day after the Nintendo Switch 2 launch, and Nintendo registered as a partner, the only time the console was even mentioned was a brief ad for Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition. Although that does probably increase the chances of a Nintendo Direct later in the month. There were a few notable trends for the games at this year's Summer Game Fest: a lot of Soulslike titles with dark grey visuals, a lot of anime games, and plenty of live service titles still trying their luck at hitting the big time. So, if the thought of that doesn't appeal you may find the pickings relatively thin. Although there's also Jurassic World Evolution 3 and the Deadpool VR game if you fancy something different. Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. The first annoucement was Mortal Shell 2, a sequel to the 2020 Dark Souls clone that is still one of our favourite Soulslikes not made by FromSoftware. Developed by a mere 30-man team (Keighley was keen to highlight that many of the games were by surprisingly small developers) the sequel seems to be going for a more overt horror atmosphere, while there was a lot more gun combat than usual for the genre. It's out sometime in 2026. It's never a surprise to see Hideo Kojima at a Geoff Keighley event but the cut scene he decided to show for Death Stranding 2 was not exactly the most enthralling. It featured Luca Marinelli as Neil and his real-life wife Alyssa Jung as therapist Lucy, arguing about the fact that he's forgotten who she is. Neil is apparently the villain of the piece, and the one dressed up in Solid Snake cosplay in some of the previous images. The game itself is out in just a few weeks, on June 26. Sega had a strange little dig at Mario Kart World during their reveal of Sonic's latest kart racer, pointing out that it has cross-play… even though Mario Kart is obviously only on Nintendo formats. The game looked good, but the focus of the demonstration was crossover characters from other games, including Hatsune Miku, Ichiban Kasuga from Like A Dragon, Joker from Persona 5, and Steve from Minecraft. The game will be released on September 25 for every format imaginable. We're really not sure the art style in this unexpected sequel to the 2019 Soulslike works very well, with its anime characters and realistic backdrops, but at least it's something a bit different. The original didn't seem quite successful enough to justify a follow-up, but the action looks good and at least it's one Soulslike that's not copying FromSoftware's visuals as well as its gameplay. It'll be released for Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, and PC sometime next year. It does seem madness that there's never been a console action game based on Game Of Thrones. There still isn't, but at least this real-time strategy game isn't just some seedy mobile title. Unfortunately, the pre-rendered trailer never showed a hint of any gameplay, so there's no clue as to what it's actually like, but apparently it involves 'ruthless free-for-all battles where trust is fleeting and power is everything'. It's out next year and seems to be PC-only, which is a shame as it could have worked as a spiritual sequel to EA's old Lord Of The Rings real-time strategies. It's been a very busy week for Capcom this week, with Pragmata re-unveiled at the State of Play on Wednesday and Resident Evil Requiem being the big reveal at the end of Summer Game Fest. But we also got a new gameplay trailer for the reboot of Onimusha, which looks extremely pretty and continued the series' tradition of not even trying to have anyone sound like they're actually from Japan (like Resident Evil, the originals only had English voiceovers). There's no release date yet, but it's out next year on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC. One of the strangest reveals of the show was what seems to be a Muppet version of Punch-Out!!, with the potty-mouthed puppets taking part in what also probably counts as a homage to Rocky. The gameplay does seem almost identical to Nintendo's old boxing game but hopefully there's a bit more to it than that. The game doesn't have a release date and is currently scheduled only for PC. Expected to be the next big thing in online shooters, the only thing ARC Raiders has been missing is a release date, but it finally got that at Summer Game Fest. It'll be out on October 30 for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC, which is interesting because that's right around the time you'd expect this year's Call Of Duty to come out – and the new Battlefield, if EA launches it this year. ARC Raiders' strong word of mouth gives it a head start though, which could make for an interesting autumn shootout. When we interviewed Jospeh Fares about Split Fiction, we asked him why he thought no one had ever tried to copy his games, despite their huge success. He didn't know but finally another developer seems to have wondered the same thing and Out Of Words does look very reminiscent of It Takes Two in particular. The hand-crafted, stop motion visuals are neat though and it's definitely one to watch, even if it doesn't have a release date yet. Another game taking inspiration from Split Fiction, at least in the sense that it has a friend pass that means only one person has to own a copy of the game to play online co-op. It's by the creators of the very good Lego Builder's Journey and rather than being based on Lego licensed sets, or any other established toy line, it's all about solving puzzles by building Lego structures. If it's as good as Lego Builder's Journey it'll be doing very well indeed, although there's no release date yet. Between South Of Midnight and The Midnight Walk, and Out Of Words, stop motion animation Is suddenly very popular for video games. The art style in this new game from Annapurna was notably different though, and while we're not entirely sure what's going on in terms of the gameplay the 80s soundtrack sounds like it'll be the best thing since GTA: Vice City. Made by just nine people in Indonesia, this very bloody looking beat 'em-up looked extremely impressive, and also very reminiscent of the violence in Oldboy. We didn't quite gather what was going on in terms of the story but we're sure revenge has something to do with it, as you beat down hordes of goons and get a Mortal Kombat style view of an opponent's skeleton, when you manage to put a big enough dent in it. It'll be out on PC next summer. We can't say we've ever been fans of Scott Pilgrim, either the comics or the film, but the 2D graphics for this new scrolling beat 'em-up look gorgeous. It's clearly intended as follow-up to Ubisoft's film tie-in from 2010, which was well received by many, and is by the same team behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge and Marvel Cosmic Invasion (which was also at Summer Game Fest and announced Rocket Racoon and She-Hulk as characters). It'll be out on current and last gen consoles and PC next year. Although 007 First Light did get a quick name check on stage, developer and publisher IO Interactive instead spent their time talking about Agent 47 in MindsEye and Mads Mikkelsen in Hitman: World of Assassination (aka Hitman 3). He'll be reprising the role of Le Chiffre as the latest elusive target in the game – a special character, usually played by a famous actor, that is only available to assassinate for 30 days, starting from today. That's neat but it's also interesting that it implied IO has a considerable amount of leeway with the Bond licence and what they can do with it. The other Lego game to be unveiled was an outrageously obvious clone of Mario Party, only with 300 different minifigures instead of the Mushroom Kingdom crew. These can be rearranged in trillions of different combinations, in order to compete for stars golden bricks and play 60 different mini-games. We're big fans of Mario Party (and Lego) so if this manages to be as fun as Nintendo's games then we're all for it. It'll be release for both consoles and PC this year. A new game from Drinkbox Studios, makers of Guacamelee! and Nobody Saves The World is immediately of interest but this Diablo-esque role-player looks a bit more serious and horror tinged than their previous games. It also seems to be channelling Hades creator Supergiant Games, none of which is a bad thing. Whether it's a Metroidvania or not isn't clear but at certainly points in the trailer it definitely seems to have co-op. It's not certain which formats it's coming to but it's out on PC next year. A lot of people are probably going to compare this to online survival game Grounded, but the plot makes it sound like a more serious version of Pikmin, with aliens visiting Earth and battling with both insects and some sort of mechanical robot menace, as you search for your lost crew. It's out for consoles and PC next year and while there's very little concrete information on the gameplay the visuals certainly look impressive. Whether you care about the Wu-Tang Clan or not this had some of the nicest visuals of any game at the show. They seemed fairly obviously influenced by the Into The Spider-Verse movies, but that's no bad thing, and we're only surprised that hasn't happened before. The idea of a Wu-Tan action role-playing game was leaked quite a while ago, where it was described as Diablo meets Hi-Fi Rush, which does seem to fit with what you see in the trailer. There's no release date so far. There were a lot of great looking games at the show, but this might have been our favourite, with its 40s style animation reminiscent of a 3D Cuphead. It's a bit hard to tell exactly what's going on with the story but you seem to be playing an alcohol abusing cartoon character who's been tricked by the Devil into… taking part in a third person action roguelite, that also has three-player co-op. There's no release date but if it looks as good as it plays it'll be doing very well indeed. The final reveal before Resident Evil Requiem was what was previously codenamed Project Century and while it looks like a Yakuza spin-off it's not actually part of the franchise, even though it's by the same developer. Sega didn't explain much, but when the game was first introduced it was set in Japan in 1915 and yet this trailer is set in 1943 (i.e. in the middle of the Second World War). More Trending Given the codename that probably implies you're playing in multiple time periods across the whole century. There was no mention of formats or a release date though, so it's probably still quite a while away from release. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Call Of Duty 2026 campaign has a brand new setting for Modern Warfare says leak MORE: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate gets Switch 2 upgrade but there's a problem MORE: Nintendo Switch 2 GameChat feature doesn't censor swear words
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07-06-2025
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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Brings A Minecraft World To Summer Game Fest
Summer Game Fest 2025 introduces a first look at Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, revealing new crossover characters and a new map. Summer Game Fest 2025 introduces a first look at Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, revealing new crossover characters and new map. The teaser shows off the classic Sonic characters in their classic racing vehicles. However, the big reveal is that Hatsune Miku, Ichiban Kasuga from Like a Dragon, and Joker from Persona 5 are joining the frey. Worlds collide from their respective games and worlds! Japanese video game director, producer, and designer, Takashi Iizuka, also revealed that Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will launch with online crossplay, so friends can play together. Iizuka jabbed at Mario Kart World, not having this feature on the new Nintendo Switch 2. The biggest hype that it ends on is the new Minecraft collab map. It showed an Ender dragon flying through the racing map. For now, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will be coming out on all platforms, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC, on September 25, 2025. With over 70 Gadgets to choose from, there are countless ways to customize your approach to each race. Whether it's boosting your speed or carrying more items, each combination of Gadgets allows for a different playstyle, so players can strategize how they want to beat the competition and be the first to cross the finish line! Plus, the fan-favorite Extreme Gear hoverboards from Sonic Riders are back and better than ever, amping up the high-speed fun and vehicle choices. Players can customize their rides inside and out by mixing and matching parts, powers, and abilities. This means players can create tailor-made rides. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds not only transports players to tracks inspired by classic Sonic stages, but also introduces the all-new Travel Rings mechanic, whisking players away across land, sea, air, time, and even space mid-race! The twist is that whoever is in the lead gets to pick which world everyone gets transported to during the second lap, so no two races are ever quite the same. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is racing onto consoles, releasing in both Standard and Digital Deluxe editions. Grab the Digital Deluxe edition to jump into the race three days early and expand your rosters with even more racers, including characters from the hit Netflix series Sonic Prime. Plus, the Digital Deluxe edition includes the Season Pass, which is packed with bonus characters, vehicles, and new tracks inspired by other worlds and franchises. More will be revealed in the near future. Pre-orders being today! Time to start those engines, and put the pedal to the metal.
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14-02-2025
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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds just got a truckload of new details with a closed network test happening this month
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has a new trailer courtesy of the State of Play presentation It'll feature dynamic courses and the return of Sonic Riders' Extreme Gear A closed network test is happening later this month Sega has just dropped a whole bunch of new information on its upcoming racing game, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. The title was fully revealed at the February 12 PlayStation State of Play presentation following its initial tease at The Game Awards 2024. The trailer itself gives plenty for Sonic fans to mull over, including race tracks based on Dinosaur Jungle (Sonic and the Secret Rings) and Metal Harbor (Sonic Adventure 2). Best of all, the trailer confirmed the return of the Extreme Gear board from Sonic Riders as a usable vehicle. Now, the official Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds website has been updated with plenty of fresh details that build upon what we saw in the State of Play trailer (which you can check out for yourself below). The return of transforming land, sea and air vehicles has been confirmed, hearkening back to the days of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed. Courses also appear to be incredibly dynamic. The racer in the lead can choose one of two Travel Rings at the start of the second lap, transporting them to one of the titular Cross Worlds. There's also an option for a 'Frenzy Gate' which seems to take players to a random location. The site also confirms that cars are customizable in terms of appearance and perks, allowing you to form a look and driving style all your own. Furthermore, a PlayStation Blog post on the game states that characters won't be tied to specific cars and instead "can race in all kinds of vehicles," a first for the Sonic Racing series. If you can't wait to play Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, which still doesn't have a release date, you might be in luck. A closed network test is happening on February 21 with signups going live on February 18. The closed network test will let players race online on a variety of courses. The featured playable characters are Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Shadow, Cream, Eggman, Omega and Zazz. However, the trailer does show off more characters that'll be coming to the game, including Sage, Jet the Hawk, Silver, Vector and Charmy. On a final note, the PlayStation Blog post does state that "iconic characters from the Sonic and Sega universes" will feature in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. That 'Sega' part is important, as it could mean we'll also see characters from franchises like Super Monkey Ball, Samba de Amigo and potentially Nights, as was the case in past Sonic Racing titles. Nintendo Switch 2 patent suggests you'll be able to use the console upside down for some reason Elden Ring Nightreign is arriving in May and you can pre-order it now Sci-fi shooter Metal Eden might be the coolest new game from the latest State of Play
