Our friends at RadioSEGA have just announced the first part of their long awaited Project 7 update. Project 7 has promised members of the website the biggest revamp to date, and this first part has certainly met that expectation.

Starting from this Friday (12th March), RadioSEGA will be broadcasting Live Shows for the first time in its 3 and a half year history. The first show to hit the airwaves will be forum member ResidentSD’s SEGA AGES, a 90 minute show dedicated to specific years, consoles, or any other themes. The first show centres on 2001, and will feature music from Rez, Planet Harrier, Shenmue II and Sonic Adventure 2, amongst many others.

Saturday evening brings about my very own creation: Saturday Night SEGA. Saturday Night SEGA will be a mixture of classic SEGA tracks, along with some of the very best remixes from within the VG Music community. And, of course, I’ll be showcasing some of the tracks from the two Living Sedative albums I made for Sonic Relief.

If you happen to miss a show, don’t worry. RadioSEGA has you covered there, too. 24 hours after the initial broadcast, you’ll be able to download the show as a Podcast, allowing you to relive a particular favourite, or just catch up on any shows you might have missed.

RadioSEGA have announced that they’ll be revealing more shows in due course, including one or two that may surprise you. We’ll keep you up to date on all the latest announcements.

Forgive me father, for I have sinned. I am not the good catholic boy you think I am. I have strayed from the flock and enjoyed it spending the last decade consumed in the world of Phantasy Star and partying, pausing only to sleep, learn Japanese and check out some handheld Sonic games; Sonic Advance and Sonic Rush being great but let us sweep Sonic Battle under the carpet or lock it away never to be seen.

Upon my return to Sonic, I discovered Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing and have enjoyed every second of it. I’ve even got the family involved on wireless DS multiplayer, yes, the family. I know it’s like every other party game out there – Sonic has the coolest car I’ve seen for a while. Shadow and his shady past (hur hur) sports a motorcycle that is pretty nifty on the narrower Samba de Amigo based courses. However, my favourite has to be Ulala who doesn’t quite drive but hovers about 2 feet off the ground with hilarious consequences.

If you’re looking for an alternative to actual family feuds, beat the crap out of each other playing Sonic & SEGA All-Star Racing!

Ok so the last couple of days I’ve been doing some extensive testing with High Definition videos, some of you may remember the Sonic CD HD Videos that we released not so long ago. Those were only the start of what we have planned, so to kick things off I’m showcasing a High Definition clip from Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast. Enjoy and don’t forget to let us know what you think below in the comments section!

A disclaimer before we start: This is in no way, shape or form a confirmation of Mario & Sonic 3. If such a game appears, and uses anything mentioned in this article, that’s just pure coincidence.

OK, with that out of the way, let us begin. We’ve had two games pitting Sonic and Mario against each other in sporting competition. Ironically, they were both Olympics titles. So, if SEGA and Nintendo were to put the two rivals against each other again, what would be the best way to do it?

There are probably a fair few of you thinking wtf? at this point. Let me start from the beginning, Sonic Cage Dome who run a very impressive online gaming site dedicated to Sonic as well as a few other online multiplayer classics, have announced they are doing a spring Olympic Games. Those of you who can remember back to 2005, FastFeet Media covered their 2005 Sonic Olympics in SEGASonic:TV Episode 5. Why spring? Well lets face it who can be bothered to wait to play until the Summer

It will be quite a unique event taking place between March the 14th – 21st and 2 websites in the community are going head to head to see who is truly the best: The Sonic Center and Sonic Cage Dome. Mainly due to a long time rivalry between the two websites, however everyone is welcome to participate if you think you can take on the competition! If you think you have what it takes find out at the announcement on Sonic Cage Dome.

Last week, SEGA revealed Project Needlemouse as Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1, and I’d like to take this opportunity to voice my opinions on the game, based on what we know so far. First of all, I’m impartial to Sonic’s design. I feel I should make that clear right off the bat. As a game in the Classic Sonic storyline, I agree that it should feature Classic Sonic, but it doesn’t, and that doesn’t bother me. So long as the gameplay feels like Classic Sonic, that’s all that matters to me.

But what of the graphical design? I like it. In a strange way, it seems to blend the classical with the modern rather well. As with every other site, I’m basing this off of three seconds of footage featured in the reveal trailer. Rather than me try and describe it, let’s take a look at a screenshot, shall we?

Whoa, hold yer horses! All this talk of Project Needlemouse aka Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is making me dizzy. I feel the need to sit down and divert my attention for a while. Oh, what’s this? Gavvie of Living Sedative (and FastfeetMedia, I should add) presents his fourth album, a collection of reworked Sonic tunes for Sonic Relief. Well, I might just give that a listen and donate. I urge you all to do so because 1) it’s a worthy cause, 2) you’ll score some reworked tunes, and 3) paypal is easy peasy. Well, you can donate two ways (I’ll explain further down)…

Now, a few sites, forums, etc. have given this album a bit of bad press – I suggest you do something for Sonic Relief instead of complaining! Hey, even I might do something… stay tuned, folks! While there are a few issues with the overall sound quality, the arrangements are interesting and the odd surprise is hidden in there. The opener, Green Hill Sonata, is my personal favourite out of plenty here to choose from:

It hasn’t taken long for somebody to rip the intro video from the Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing demo on Xbox 360 and upload it onto YouTube! We’re rather glad they took the time to upload it in HD though, it looks awesome on the highest setting.

The video features quite a few of the main characters, but we’re not going to spoil the video for you. Watch it below:

Dreadknux, over at The Sonic Stadium, today announced the date for this year’s Summer of Sonic convention. SoS ‘10, the third such community meetup, will be held on Saturday 7th August, and whilst a venue is yet to be announced, it will once again be in London. Further details will be announced in the runup to event, including whether or not an admission fee will be required for entry, which would be a first for the convention.

Personally, I’m looking forward to SoS ‘10. Last year’s convention was my first, and through it I met some very good friends. Whether this year is bigger and better than last year or not, it’s still a date that should be written in the diary of any Sonic fan. It will also be interesting to see which Sonic game is unveiled this year, if any. 2008 saw the first UK display of the Nintendo DS RPG, Sonic Chronicles, whilst 2009 saw the first public display of Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing. Could 2010 be Sonic 4 Episode 1’s year? We’ll have to wait and see.

We’ll be covering the latest Summer of Sonic news and reveals as and when they happen, so be sure to keep checking back with us for all the latest information, as well as expert opinions from our writers.

I know we’re a bit behind on some of our coverage so we’re going to make more of an effort to keep up to date with some of the newer developments that are going on at the moment. As of today Sega have released the Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing demo on the Xbox 360 marketplace and is currently only available to gold members, whilst it is a bit of a whopper to download at over 1Gb in size it is truly worth the wait to have a play. The game was available to play at Summer of Sonic 2009, however I was a little busy to say the least on that day so I didn’t get a chance to play it.

You can expect to hear more of my opinion very soon as I will be getting this game rest assured, as it seems to be the nearest thing that Sega have made (or Sumo Digital depending on how you look at it) that can compete with Mario Kart. I wouldn’t compare the two games directly as Mario Kart has had several incarnations under the same name which has been around since the SNES days and this is an entirely fresh game by comparison. But the demo isn’t the only thing Sega released today…