It’s official the Sonic community is getting another two conventions this year, the first now in it’s fifth year… has it really been going that long? The Summer of Sonic which will take place on July the 7th somewhere in London.

Then over in the US there will be the second Sonic Boom event will be held at the San Diego Comic con on Friday the 13th. Check out the SEGA blog announcement here.

EDIT: Site has just been pulled offline, seems like people were getting ahead of themselves… whoops.

Okay I just saw the new place on the net to get your Sonic merch… at least if your a UK fan that is. sonicmerchandise.com/ has launched to little or no fanfare or promotion at least from what I can see and I can understand why.

Looking around the site it seems okay enough except it seems to be lacking in content they have sections for Figures and plushies which have nothing in which seems to me to be just teasing. (continue reading…)

Another trailer has surfaced from SEGA’s new best Chums IGN, featuring three stages from Sonic’s recent history, including Rooftop Run (amazing) Planet Wisp (another good choice) and Crisis City. Wait Crisis city from Sonic 06… oh god no… the memories are coming back… somebody get me some valium!

Today we get to see a trailer for the era that brought me back to Sonic and quiet frankly is still the best console ever the Dreamcast! Oh and Sonic Heros is also thrown in there, cause that was around the same time, and I’m sure was originally intended for the dreamcast.

Oh god, the nostalgia I’m drowning in it!

Once again the Unskippable guys are back to make fun of a Sonic introduction sequence, this time it’s the Black Knight, plenty of material there.

As some of you may know the Tokyo Game Show has just finished up, and SEGA being SEGA had a live performance from Jun Senoue. Now Jun has just posted up this amazing music video showing off three melody’s from the Sonic Generations, including Chemical Plant, Seaside Hill and Rooftop Run.

Plus in the background we get a better look at some of the levels from Generations. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to drool at this a couple more times.

Want another trailer for Sonic Generations, well SEGA obliges and I post. This one shows off three classic levels remade for the modern era.

Looking very snazzy.

A brand new Sonic Generations trailer just went out, showing off a few more levels that you may remember from his 20 years, and shows off some nice cameos as well, can you spot them?

Those guys over at the Escapist have been busy and have produced another Sonic Unskippable video, this time of Sonic 06… oh god this can’t end well.

So out and about on my travels after Summer of Sonic I came across something interesting at at the gaming centre in the Trocadero. It seems that the Sonic Generations demo has been setup… with a steering wheel and pedal set…

Maybe it’s an early test by SEGA of alternate forms of control for Sonic… the steering wheel actually makes a bit of sense if you consider that they are designed to control fast moving object and Sonic does fall into the category. Maybe the pedals are the jump controls?

Or it could be that the controls are not connected and someone was just being industrious and making use of an un-used screen but that’s far less entertaining!