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Hard News 07/22/08


Today we talk about the new Sonic release, the XNA service that is coming soon, and Microsoft saves PC users some cash.

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sonic and the black night ??

sonic and the black night ?? wtf?? ugh.. going to be a bad game i can already tell

to Zornox

dont hate on it yet bro :) it might be kickass but i know sonic with a sword is ewwww

Looks interesting to me

I'm looking forward to it, it looks like a sequal to Sonic and the Secret Rings and I loved that game!

BTW I also enjoyed Shadow the Hedgehog and I don't give a rat's ass what you say to me.

another great show

another great show

chrono trigger 2??!

yeah AND a great picture, talking about the nintendo power cover. what is that i see on sonics left side?? finally?? a... a new chrono trigger?! OMG!

grrrrrreat vid btw !!

Chrono Trigger is a remake, with new DS features.

Chrono Trigger DS is basically a port from SNES to DS, but it will use the DS's features, add a new dungeon, and maybe some other stuff too.
So it's not a new Chrono Trigger.
There was a sequel to Chrono Trigger though I think, Chrono Cross?

Sorry if you were being sarcastic though, I can't tell haha.

Throw down the gauntlet!

Nice video, Hard News is my favorite thing on the site.

Why am I smoking a cigar? Because I refuse to breathe the world's air!

Please...

Please, can you guys stop talking about xbox this and xbox that. Are you guys xbox fanboys? I know Destin is.

What the fuck are you

What the fuck are you talking about? It was ONE article about XNA, the other two have absolutely NOTHING to do with the xbox.

Yes, and both microsoft

Yes, and both microsoft stories were portrayed in a less than positive light

"that guy needs to be kicked

"that guy needs to be kicked in the nuts"

greatest line destin has ever delivered. he did it perfectly

i was thinking the same

if you didnt write that comment, it would have been mine ^^

Damn

This food is hella good :)
Oh yeah my bad, great show and please God let this Sonic game be good.

What the...?

Someone at Sega needs to be executed before anyone else gets hurt! Who in their right mind would make a Sonic-game where Sonic has to carry around a large sword? It's stupid, Sonic Team is Stupid and Sonic only lives through Smash Bros. Brawl otherwhise he is dead! There I said it!

He died in Sonic Heroes and Shadow was shooting a salute with an Uzi at he's funeral!

I never thought I'd live to

I never thought I'd live to see the day when Sonic the Hedgehog was on the cover of Nintendo Power.

I thought i'd never live to

I thought i'd never live to see Sonic in Super Smash Bros.

PLEASE have a black mage from final fantasy in the next one

Smash bros. is a Nintendo game

I think u're missing the point about Smash bros, it's only for nintendo characters. Snake & Sonic got in it for resons I'm not prepared to explain.

What're you looking at?

I don't know.....

I think Sonic looks kinda cool holding that sword.

Wait, does that make me a bad person?

Well...

Yeah... Pretty much ;)

don't worry

don't worry i also think he looks kind of cool with the sword ;) but i wander how is it going to look when he runs or better yet how is he even going to run with that giant sword @_@

great show

great show

Sonic has a sword

Sonic has a sword now...

Doesn't that go against their principle that Sonic would never be seen holding a weapon?

Try being mature, guys.

Sonic with a sword? Last thing I expected.

I'm not going to immediately say that it's doomed to failure, unlike 99% of the people who have seen this. Now, I know most of you are probably going OMFG THIS IS GOING TO BE A GIGANTIC SHITSTAIN, but come on, at least give the new elements a try before you jump to conclusions.

New elements isn't really Sonic Teams thing...

Well... new elements aren't really Sonic Teams thing... I've had my hopes up for every game since Heroes, and every single one is more or less crap... Except for Sonic Rush, which is only about running and it worked. It's a really good game, with decent 3D-styled Sonic.

At least I won't be dissapointed if it fails, though if this turns out to be good I'll be happy, really happy. But making this good is going to be hard...

WTHELL

WOW this really looks like it is going to be a bad game.
Hope it doesn't bring down the whole sonic series.

is it just me

or does destin look REALLY tired

I was totally wondering the

I was totally wondering the same thing.

Games for windows live FREE!?

Finally they offer Games for windows live for free. They might actually have a chance of competing with steam, but only if they would release a promising online game with cross platform support not crappy lost planet or shadowrun. They should release Halo 3 as a games for windows live game with cross platform play now that would be sweet.

Sonic

Sonic with a sword. Can't be any worse then Sonic as a were hog... Still that's not saying much, but since it's on the Wii that could be a good thing giving us some decent sword fighting with the hedgehog.

Anyone else reminded of Monty Python and the Holy Grail...

...by the new Sonic game title?

I'd love to dismember the guy who came up with this to an immobile stump...

....of course, he'd still probably come up with pants ideas....

yes i remember that

i remember that film it's funny as hell. and yes the title does remind me of it. also if anyone hasn't seen it, i suggest you do

Good I'm not the onlyone who

Good I'm not the onlyone who immediately thought Monty Python.

That should be what the game is about! Sonic takes on the role of King Arther and fights against the black knight, and as he progresses he can loose limbs and spurt fake blood and... and...

...

Oh god Sonic.. what have they done to you? *cries*

Lol at least they are not

Lol at least they are not making sonic baseball, or sonic party, or sonic strikers! i mean common they have good ideas for sonic. we cant live with sonic running forever lol. the dark knight could be a new great idea for the franchise. not all the new things sucked!

heh, sonic and the dark knight

i know you corrected yourself but with mortal kombat vs. DC comming out you never know sonic and the dark knight may be the next big thing.

haha there WAS a sonic

haha there WAS a sonic version of mario party called sonic shuffle, one of the worst games ever made lol

Development

Wait Sega told me they in development.

Lol at least they are not

Lol at least they are not making sonic baseball, or sonic party, or sonic strikers! i mean common they have good ideas for sonic. we cant live with sonic running forever lol. the black knight could be a new great idea for the franchise. not all the new things sucked!

sonic game expectation are low

i dont care how cool a video or game footage may look i'm not going to be excited about a sonic game until a great one comes out and changes what prior games have done wrong. i will reserve my ultimate judgement untili can play it but it's deffinately going to be on my rent list.

It's Time

It's time to give Sonic the axe

Axe's won't work.

He'll just go all spin ball. Set up a spike strip.

Something like that

They didn't give him the axe, but a sword...
Oh you didn't mean that...

On the other hand, weren't events like E3 made to do this announcements? didn't see anything about this sonic game on any E3 coverage.

Life is just a dream...

So like what happened to you

So like what happened to you guys you said you would be doing E3 the whole week last week but you did like one vid? I just would like an update on what happened with that?

haha kick them in the nuts

haha kick them in the nuts

Very few PC games use Live

Very few PC games use Live to my knowledge. Most the people who are online with the PC are either playing a game using Steam or World of Warcraft or any other MMO. Course, Steam doesn't charge for it's service.

I guess I know what to look

I guess I know what to look for in the mail. The latest NP was covering Mad World.

Has Sega made a good game lately outside of Sonic, or have they messed up their own franchises, too?

~My two cents.

Finally it sounds like

Finally it sounds like Destin knows what he's talking about when it comes to PC gaming, great Destin. You've almost gotten rid of the only thing I didn't like about you.

Oh and... Microsoft also realised how PC Gaming works... Great episode today, five ScrewAttack bolts from me!

Sorry, but I do not buy Sonic as a sword-weilding badass.

Sonic with a SWORD?? First he's a werewolf and now this? It's like Sonic Team's trying to outdo each other on who can come up with the most stupid idea. If the Sonic franchise hadn't nuked the fridge a long time ago, this would actually kind of piss me off or at the very least surprise me.

I agree

It's pretty damn annoying that we haven't had a good sonic game since SA2... It's as if they keep switching around between 'going back to his roots' and 'coming up with completely new crappy gameplay'. I don't know what's wrong with just moving the series forward WITHOUT adding in stupid stuff like swords, or werewolves, or the entire game that was sonic heroes. I don't know what's worse, this new garbage, or stuff like sonic rush, where it's the same damn thing as all the old sonic games. Although at least the old games were playable, so sonic rush wasn't a total bust.

Defnitely

Although we shouldn't bash it yet. We don't know the plot.

Maybe Sonic battles to win his fucking dignity back.

But I doubt it.

Sonic with a sword. I'm sure

Sonic with a sword. I'm sure eventually he gets a sheild and perhaps an ocarina?

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Sonic :/

The first thing that came to mind when I saw that pic of sonic, was that they had made him into a character for soul calibur. xD

To be honest, i'm not sure what would be worse, sonic as a soul calibur character, or this "sonic and the black knight" crap.

I've Obviously Had Hundreds Of Girlfriends.

Windows Live on the PC

Windows live has more then 3 titles online, but it's nice they're making it free now. Lot's of new games are going to be "Windows Live" now so it'll be nice to use it. And it's also nice to see that Microsoft doesn't neglect the PC platform.

Sonic and the black knight...

Its like master chief with punching cloves and turns into Kirby at nights.

not good

What does he mean by "today"?

Sonic and the Black Knight has circulated around the blogosphere for a couple of days...

I still think

Destin should say "and that was hard news" at the end of the show.

But Hard News is never over!

But Hard News is never over!

???

Wait does that mean you just sit there until you get more news, or do you already know what's going to happen, but tell everybody the news day by day so that they don't realize your psychic abilities?

But...

"was" is a rather soft word, whereas "is" is a hard word. Destin has a hard voice, Destin is hard. Destin makes people hard. Because it's HARD news!

Wonder....

I wonder if it'll actually be sort of good like Shadow's game....

Also, is the Destin flaming wars still going on? O.o

shadow the hedgehog... sonic

shadow the hedgehog... sonic the hedgehog...(2006)
omg,there gonna make a shitty 3D plafform games on the wii.WHY?!
i hope its gonna be(i think its stupid)a hack n slash plafform game.
man,that will be awesome.

Oh god.

Why must they continualy screw up Sonic? You'd think they'd know by now that we don't want a story, crappy voice acting, or 3d graphics.