We’ve just launched a new website for Sonic and the Secret Rings.

Have a look and tell us what you think: www.sega-europe.com/secretrings

Insider Info
You may have already seen a website for Secret Rings, but this one’s a bit different. The one you may have seen was created in the States a while back - we’ve built this one for a European audience. For starters, it exists in five different languages (English, French, German, Spanish and Italian - or ‘eefigs’ as we call it). We use a device to sniff out the language settings of the browser you’re using and the site automatically loads the appropriate version of the site. You can probably figure out how to switch between the different sites if you’re clever…

Over in Tokyo, the producers of Secret Rings gave us loads of help with the site. Almost all of the textures and little designs you can see on the site come straight from the game, as does the character artwork you’ll see. SONICTEAM provided help and feedback throughout, and then sent us a frankly beautiful chrome-finish external hard drive containing all the gameplay videos you can see on the site. We had to send the hard drive back. It still hurts.

Credit where it’s due then: Sandy Simon, the designer; Chief Bennie Booysen, the design boss and workhorse; Me, the words; Elaine Carty, the project management; Mark Hinch, techie stuff no-one else really understands.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments bit.