Firstly you can check out the new M&SATOG DS Trailer below or from our YouTube account.

Last Monday I was host at the Wii flat to several bloggers sites and in the afternoon a bunch of Sonic community guys where we hung out, ate nice food and drank nice beverages all whilst playing the game.  The general consensus was that it was a blast and some of us are meeting up again tomorrow to play M&S and hang out.

Now one of the things I asked people to do before they left was to place a 100m time on Mario & Sonic DS. Why would I do that? Well nothing on these blogs is without being part of some kind of terrifying scheme.  I want to find out who the fastest person out there on Mario & Sonic is.  So I want you to send in your video clips on YouTube and photos of your times (and general M&S related fun) to blogs@sega-europe.com.

I’ll be running this on both DS and Wii versions – the fastest person will win a prize pack after a couple of months of playing lets say and I’ll keep the contest open probably indefinitely – obviously I myself don’t count.

As we didn’t have any Wii’s at the Wii flat (they were locked in a safe as it happens) I could not get everyone’s time but you have to beat.

WII SPRINT TABLE
[1] ArchangelUK (Shadow) – 9.400

DS SPRINT TABLE
[1] ArchangelUK (Sonic) – 9.448
[2] T-Bird (Sonic) – 9.628
[3] Sonic Stadium: Dreadknux (Sonic) – 9.654
[4] Shadow Urtheart (Sonic) – 9.831
[5] Sonic Cage Dome: Mike Taylor (Sonic) – 9.843
[6] Diogo (Sonic) – 9.886
[7] Fastfeet Media: Foreversonic (Shadow) – 9.891
[8] Sonic Yoda (Sonic) – 9.971
[9] Emerald Coast: Vger (Shadow) – 10.01
[10] Sonic Spriters Network: Violet (Sonic) – 10.093
[11] Sonic Spriters Network: Roareye Black (Waluigi) – 10.337

Lots of people used Sonic it seems, but don’t think its not possible to get to the top of the tree with other characters.  I’ve had 9.559 on DS with Shadow so… get sprinting!

PS: You MUST send in proof!
PPS: ALWAYS use a screen protector.

A late one, but if you’ve not noticed before Sonic City got an update Friday evening (late Friday evening… blasted CMS) where I interviewed Bentley Jones about his new album and career moves post-Dreams Of An Absolution and Remix Factory.  The interview was notable for many things but we manage to get details that it seems Mr Jones will be working on other games music for Sonic in the future!

Check out the interview here: http://www.sonic-city.com/en/articles/1816.html

I wasn’t able to ask him about his early days with Overclocked Remix though.

I’m also taking the opportunity today to implement some updates to characters and information on Sonic City - I’d like to take this chance to remind people that while I wrote SOME of the copy, I did not write the majority of it so please stop complaining about the “fan bits” on forums as I certainly didn’t add those.

Also remember SONICTEAM approved those comments being on there – we don’t mind you guys making up your own theories you know?