With the heartwarming co-workers I have being busy, Nemain with Uni and Vger with world conquest, it was decided the heartless one had to do something to help people… Why?

So here is my proposition to you guys, i’m willing to draw you a sketch if you donate a least £1 to sonic relief, yep just 1 quid and i’ll draw ye a sketch of your favourite character or fancharacter either live on the boombox livestream or hand drawn sketch, and anything you donate goes straight to help less lucky people, and ii get drawing practise.

So how does it work?

Well go to the sonic relief page linked above, and donate at least 1 british pound sterling with a comment saying it is for EC to draw you something, then put a comment here or send us an email (urtheart at gmail dot com) linking to your comment and i’ll get on it asap.

I say at least £1 please feel to donate more, if you are lucky I might do more than one for ye, or colour it, even vger and nemain might take time out of their busy schedules if you donate a good amount.

So what ye waiting for go donate something now!

Today marked a rather sad day for British gaming. British gaming studio Bizarre Creations have closed down. Known for a lrage libary of quality games, including the Project Gotham Racing series, Geometry Wars and of course the SEGA title The Club, it is a shame that these games in most cases did not sell as well as they deserved. While I can’t say the studio was particularly dear to… whatever I have in place of a heart, they will be remembered, and it is a shame for us to loss one of the decent developers in the UK. Sadly it is only one duff game that can cause them to go, and Blur was sadly that game for them.
While their new 007 game has come out with music from one of our favourite composers, Richard Jacques, they leave us with one last thing, this video.

RIP Bizarre Creations, may your games lvie on in the minds of gamers for years to come.

Because we forgot to do this on air… Whoops.

As a little bit of fun, we want you to guess how many levels I completed on Ascension from the start of the show to the end. There’s clues in the Livestream if you missed the show. We were going to make you guess what level I was on when the show finished, but the Livestream gives that away. The closest guess gets a prize… Namely something Sonic related from my merch haul. Haven’t decided yet, but it’ll be a figure or plushie of some description. One clue I will give you is that I did NOT start at level one – I was a bit higher than that when we went live! Comment on this post with your guess by the end of tomorrow (14th February) and the closest guess wins the prize. All it takes to enter is a number, so comment away!

Oh yes, one entry per person only… Or else Richtofen will gut you with the Bowie knife and bathe naked in your blood. DO NOT DISPLEASE HIM!

It’s been over half a year now, but Summer of Sonic still has things being related from the year gone by, and of course we are preping for this years events.

During the SoS10 Roareye Black was on the floor to create a video to showcase just what made Summer of Sonic the event it is, along with Discoponies from the Sonic Show.
So here for your enjoyment is just under and hours worth of film from SoS10, including Vger’s Wrecks Factor forfeit, Crush 40′s concert excerpts, and interviews with both Nemain, officially dubbed the Merch Queen by Roareye, and Vger, dubbed the man with the Mansion Pad.

Whatever you may think about the Sonic games the music has always been a high point managing to stay fresh and interesting for most of Sonic’s 20 years. From the simple yet catchy melodies of the early 90′s Mega Drive/Genesis console offerings, to the more recent soft rock approach of the late 90′s to now where we have the latest evolution in the sound of Sonic in Colours which I can only seem to define as a mix between a full orchestral and techno.

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Urtheart has already weighed in with a new year message but I thought I’d better poke my head up and say hi as I haven’t posted in almost two weeks.

2010 was a great year for Emerald Coast, I finally got a site design I’m happy with, we added the amazing artistic talent of Nemain to the staff, we’ve strengthened our ties with the community and sister site Sonic Wrecks… and I got to go to Japan for two weeks. Okay that last part had nothing to do with the site.

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Well Urth be here, currently sitting at the EC lair, thinking far too much about the future.
First off, Happy New Year, to celelbrate, New Years day from Noon GMT onward, Livestreaming Urth is back, dunno if I’ll be arting or gaming at the moment but tune in anyway.

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The Sonic Riders series has baffled me, the first game was terrible and then they brought out Zero Gravity which was even worse at this point I honestly thought that someone at SEGA had woken up and smacked the person who came up with the idea round the head with a wet fish and then fired him, out of a cannon, into the sun. Alas this did not happen as we now have the third instalment of what I fear is turning into a continuing series, but this time there’s something different.

Free Riders is a exclusive launch title for the Kinect, the new motion sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360.

So does this new control system make the game any better than it’s predecessors or does it fall flat?

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Sonic 4 was everything the fans asked for and yet somehow I didn’t like it.

Then there was Colours, a game aimed at the little kiddies, yet somehow this is the one title I’ve looked forward to, this first for a while in the Sonic series.

So considering I was the only EC crew member who hadn’t played it in advance did it live up to my expectations, rather critical as they are?

In short no, they surpassed them, by a long way.

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