#SEGAnews Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Announce Trailer

 New Sonic Racing game announced!

What can we say already aside from the fact this looks pretty fun? 

Looks like a mix of all previous Sonic/Sega racing games. I see "transformed" mechanics, extremeboards/overboards, lots of characters, SAGE is here! A few references to the storybooks/Secret Rings stages...

This seems pretty good so far!~

#GamingNEWS Five Laps at Freddy's + Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic - Teaser Debut

Apparently this will be a month of news and goodies for FNAF fans. And they just started this announcing a new fun-but random spinoff game AND teasing a new proper horror game.

Check this out,

I'll admit, I'm kinda hyped for both...

#GamingNEWS Sonic Racing - Official Apple Arcade Teaser

Sonic "the youtuber" is not something anyone ever asked for.. but it somehow just... works?



Little commercial for the Apple Arcade version of Team Sonic Racing. The tracks appear somewhat retooled in this game.  Wouldn't it be awful if they also announced a few more characters for that version of the game? Ha!

#GamingNEWS Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled – Nitro Tour Grand Prix Intro

I don't care if it was started as such, it's not just a remake, I actually call Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled "CTR4"!

It basically offers  the combined experience of CTR, Nitro Kart and Tag Team Racing. Updating the adventure mode of the original with characters, karts and the customization of the later games. Plus all the new added gimmicks and features.

As well as the inclusion of the online mode AND the upcoming Grand Prix mode!

Starting with tomorrow's first Grand Prix, the Nitro Tour Grand Prix! Which will allow to unlock some more new content with a new in-game currency!

And here's the awesome new trailer, featuring the return of the cartoon mutant chicken duo of Chick and Stew (check out their voice actors!! Sonic's in Crash, sorta! Haha!),  brought over from CTTR's cutscenes! Also, Tawna is back and not kidnapped for a change. The Trophy Girls from the original CTR are now racing for their own trophies. And more!



Nitro-Fueled just keeps getting better and better! Well done, Beenox! With your crew and Vicarious Vision, Crash is finally in good hands! (So long, Radical!)

#GamingNEWS Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled – Customization Trailer

I almost forgot the new Crash Team Racing game is coming up soon.

Looking less and less like a CTR remake, and more and more like a proper new installement in the series, the 4th Crash racing game. It even takes more and more elements from Nitro Kart and Tag Team Racing each new trailer!



FAKE CRASH is in the place!!

So is customization!

 They need to add Nina Cortex, and this will become my dream Crash kart racing game!!

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled launches for the PlayStation 4, Switch and Xbox One on June 21.

#GamingNEWS Team Sonic Racing custom trailer+new animated shorts

Team Sonic Racing is almost upon us, it looks like the extra dev team gave the team the extra time to polish the game and finally start giving it some actual personality.

And now you can even customize vehicles!



It looks fun.

But this is clearly not the reason I made this post. It's the fact that Sega's gonna produce a new short animated webseries around this new game - Team Sonic Racing Overdrive. And like Sonic Mania Plus before, they're gonna release them on the official youtube channel AND they look beautiful!

Check out the first episode:



Clearly made by people who love and enjoy the Sonic series. Such a fun charming cartoon. If the games could catch up to this level of quality...

#Ad Y&R - Peugeot 208 - Wacky Races

While some crazy cocaine-snorting Hollywood execs are seriously thinking about making an Hanna-Barbera shared universe including a Flintstones reboot and an actual Wacky Races film (true story!!), enjoy this silly little commercial for Peugeot which will probably be better than any actual Hollywood attempt at a serious Wacky Races film:



Best ad ever or best ad ever???

#E32018 Team Sonic Racing - E3 Trailer

With the new E3 trailer, the recently revealed Team Sonic Racing game from Sumo Digital also comes with a brand new Jun Senoue/Crush 40 song! Awesome:



It all looks pretty silly. I would have loved smaller/cartoonier/kart vehichles Sonic Drift/Mario Kart-style. And I hope there's some random characters as part of the cast, Sonic or Sega ones. Come on, give me Ray and Might! Heck, even one of the Deadly Six dorks!

#SEGAnews Team Sonic Racing - Reveal Trailer

Long rumored and teased by Sega's social media accounts, leaked by toy manufactures, info revealed by fans and loosely revealed by Wallmart yesterday, Sega has now officially confirmed the new kart racing game featuring Sonic & co.

After teasing it as a Sonic R spiritual successor, it's actually a follow up to Sumo Digital's last racing All-Stars games. And it's weirdly titled Team Sonic Racing.

While I'm sad to see the Sega All-Stars part go, I will miss all these classic Sega IPs crossovers, I hope this means we won't get any weird cross-promotion stuff like Banjo & Kazooie (love 'em, not in a Sega-exclusive crossover game, please), Wreck it Ralph or Danica Patrick...

Developed one more time by Sumo Digital, who worked on 2010’s Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing and 2012’s Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. The game is expected to feature 15 Sonic characters (why not more? DLC? the last two games had over 20!), team-gimmick mechanics, all the previous modes from the other two titles.

Here's a CGi trailer:



With Sonic Forces just behind and  Sonic Mania Plus around the corner, I kinda expect to see Infinite, Mighty and Ray among the cast!

Expect proper gameplay during E3. The game will be released sometime this winter on Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC.

1PanelReview Konami Krazy Racers

Here's a little quickie I wanted to review before another Konami crossover title.

 

VGR Tron Evolution: Battle Grids

That's right, I'm not yet finished with Tron!

The Grid. A digital frontier. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day...

TRON
Tron 2.0: Killer App / TRON 2.0 / Tron: The Ghost in the Machine
Tron: Betrayal / Tron: Evolution / TRON: Legacy

#OpeningTheme SPEED RACER 1967

Man, this old school theme song was so catchy and so funky!~

#DeletedScenes - CRAZY TAXI 4

So, apparently, we almost got a Crazy Taxi 4 not that long ago. But no surprise there, our "modern day SEGA" scrapped it (no doubt in favor of more random Sonic stuff..).

This comes from a recent update sonicstadium shared. The portfolio from an artist from SEGA Studios Australia, Brooke Luder, just revealed a few scrapped projects.

Including a pitch, concept art piece and a logo for what would have been a tentative Crazy Taxi 4:

There's no much information aside from this following bit from his portfolio page:

CRAZY TAXI CONCEPT ART
A concept piece created for the Crazy Taxi pitch from SEGA Australia. Illustrated in Photoshop and logo design created in Illustrator.
Studio: SEGA, Australia
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Software: Photoshop, Illustrator
Skills: Illustration, Logo Design

No matter how it would have turned out, I'm sure it could have been fine. It's not a really complicated IP to get right, heck even the recent smartphone Crazy Taxi free-to-play is pretty fun. (Goddammit... now I want my Crazy Taxi fix...)

Nothing much is lost, I kinda consider the PSP "enhanced port" Fare Wars to be CT4 in all but name, adding its own spin on things. But I would have loved to get a proper new console installment with a brand new city(/ies)...

Source: Courtesy from sonicstadium.org.

VGR Jurassic Park (Master System)

The official prequel to Jurassic World!

No seriously, the game ends with the park finally opening for the public after the original incident!!

God creates dinosaur. God destroys dinosaur. God creates man. Man creates Jurassic Park!

Jurassic Park 1 - The Lost World
Jurassic Park (NES) - (SNES)

VGR Mad Max (NES)

Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves...

I remember a time of chaos. But most of all I remember the Road Warrior, the man we called Max...

Mad Max 1 - The Road Warrior - Beyond Thunderdome

VGR The Simpsons Road Rage

What if The Simpsons were available to play in Crazy Taxi?
 

For more Matt Groening-related reviews, check these other pages below!

Simpsons Comics #1 / Old school Simpsons games
The Simpsons Movie / The Simpsons Game
The Simpsons/Futurama Crossover Crisis
Futurama Season 1 / Futurama The Game
Bender's Big Score - The Beast with a Billion Backs - Bender's Game - Into the Wild Green Yonder

Futurama vol. 5
Futurama-O-Rama - Futurama Adventures - Conquers The Universe

#Sega NEWS! Crazy Taxi: City Rush trailer

Damn', that new android Crazy Taxi game is looking pretty neat actually.

Developed by Hardlight Studio, they even got the original Crazy Taxi creator on board!

Check it out:

#DeletedScenes - CTR 2010

Alongside Radical Entertainment's 2nd Crash Bandicoot reboot, Crash Landed, a "sister game" of sorts was being developed at the time.

Simply known as Crash Team Racing (2010), it was to be a new (and 4th) Crash Bandicoot Kart game. A return to basis, without any silly gimmick this time.

Only Crash & co in go-karts, with their new updated chibi-ysh designs.

Let's check this new video that has just surfaced recently:



Wooah!!!

It was being developed by High Impact Games (a team mostly composed of old Naughty Dog crew, the ones that left after Sony's buy-off).

Despite never being released, since Activision decided to simply ditch this series over the last few years, it looked quite promising!

It was originally sheduled for PS3, 360 and the Wii. Personally

I loved the cartoony art style of these two 2010 scrapped games... really sad that we never got both of these..

VGR Space Race

It's time to have another look back at yet another Looney Tunes game!

This one was kind of forgotten but it was one of the best received ones at the time back then.

 We're all a little looney, and here's my other Looney Tunes-related reviews!

Looney Tunes Golden Collection
Duck Dodgers / The Looney Tunes Show
Daffy Duck (Master System) / Daffy Duck (Megadrive)
Taz-Mania
Taz-Mania (MS) / Taz-Mania (MD) / Taz-Mania (SNES) / Taz in Escape from Mars
Tiny Toon Adventures
Tiny Toons (NES) / Trouble in Wackyland / Buster's Hidden Treasure / Buster Busts Loose!
Animaniacs
Space Jam / Back in Action

#Ad - Sonic Racing Transformed

It was about time Sega started advertising their upcoming Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. (the game is coming up this week after all!)

They're also not only counting on Sonic & co to the their job, but also using Danica Patrick's public image. (and what an image!)
Check this out:



Cheesy as hell? Sure!
But heck, I even prefer having her around (what??) than Banjo & Kazooie in the first game.... (yeah, as a longtime Sega nerd, I just couldn't take those two in the previous title...)