Sonic Team
Japanese video game developer
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| 2025 | A Nintendo Switch 2 version of Shadow Generations is planned for release. |
| March 1 2025 | An unofficial PC port called Unleashed Recompiled was released, supporting high resolutions, framerates, and mod support for Windows and Linux. |
| 2024 | Evening Star releases Penny's Big Breakaway, after moving on from the Sonic Superstars prototype. |
| 2024 | In Shadow Generations, Kingdom Valley from the original game reappears, and Mephiles returns as a boss fought by Shadow. |
| October 25 2024 | Shadow Generations released, featuring a remastered version of Sonic Generations and a campaign where Mephiles returns as a boss fight for Shadow. |
| September 9 2024 | Sonic Generations was delisted from Steam and Xbox Store as a standalone game in anticipation of Sonic X Shadow Generations. |
| February 15 2024 | Sega released free DLC costume based on Shadow the Hedgehog character. |
| 2023 | Received an 'Award for Excellence' at the Japan Game Awards, being one of eleven distinguished titles recognized that year. |
| November 15 2023 | Physical version of the 'Paths Revisited' soundtrack album was released. |
| October 2 2023 | Digital release of additional soundtrack album 'Paths Revisited', containing 46 tracks, which was released four days after the game's third major update. |
| September 28 2023 | Final major update 'The Final Horizon' released, adding Tails, Knuckles, and Amy as playable characters and overhauling the game's climax. |
| May 2023 | Sonic Frontiers reached 3.5 million copies sold worldwide. |
| March 2023 | Sonic Frontiers worldwide sales surpassed 3.2 million copies. |
| January 31 2023 | Deadline for signing up to the official newsletter to receive free DLC code for Sonic's Soap shoes from Sonic Adventure 2. |
| 2022 | During a period when Sonic Frontiers was released, Naoto Ohshima remained engaged with the Sonic fan community and expressed interest in returning to game development. |
| 2022 | Sonic Frontiers was developed over a five-year period, which was longer than previous Sonic game development cycles. The game's development involved multiple restarts and significant design evolution, with a focus on creating a more open-world gameplay experience. |
| December 2022 | Sonic Frontiers was nominated in the Players' Voice category at The Game Awards 2022, ultimately losing to Genshin Impact. |
| December 12 2022 | Sega announced that Sonic Frontiers had sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. |
| December 7 2022 | Sonic Frontiers soundtrack album 'Stillness & Motion' is released, featuring 150 tracks spanning 6 hours and 37 minutes, becoming the longest soundtrack in the series. The album debuts in the top 10 of the US Spotify chart a week after its release. |
| November 2022 | Sonic Frontiers became the fourth best-selling game in the United States for the month of November. |
| November 14 2022 | First free DLC pack released, including cosmetics inspired by Monster Hunter and a cooking minigame. |
| November 8 2022 | Sonic Frontiers released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. |
| November 1 2022 | Sonic Frontiers Prologue: Divergence, an accompanying animated short, was released. |
| October 2022 | An eight-page comic, Sonic Frontiers Prologue: Convergence, was released. |
| August 23 2022 | A trailer for Sonic Frontiers was featured during the opening night of Gamescom. |
| June 2022 | Sega collaborated with IGN to promote Sonic Frontiers throughout the month. |
| May 24 2022 | Game relisted on Xbox 360 Marketplace in select countries. |
| November 2021 | Sega trademarked the name Sonic Frontiers. |
| November 15 2021 | Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed receives a performance boost and is extended to Xbox Series X/S. |
| May 27 2021 | Sega unveiled a teaser trailer featuring Sonic running through a forest at the end of a 30th-anniversary livestream, with trailer metadata and press release using the title 'Sonic Rangers'. |
| 2020 | The Sonic the Hedgehog feature film was released, which influenced the development of Sonic Frontiers. Kishimoto requested Sonic Team incorporate Easter eggs referencing the film and base the game's combat on the film's depiction of Sonic. |
| 2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic forced Sonic Team to shift to remote work for the first time, challenging the development process but also accelerating certain aspects of game creation. |
| 2019 | A popular video emerges featuring voice actors dubbing over the game's cutscenes in a single take, creating a nonsensical improvised storyline about video game culture. |
| 2019 | Sonic Team contributed to the reboot of Sakura Wars. |
| 2019 | The Babylon Rogues were reintroduced in the IDW Publishing Sonic comics Annual. |
| 2019 | Fan team led by ChaosX began developing a separate PC remake called Sonic P-06, releasing multiple demos. |
| April 10 2018 | Xbox 360 version of Sonic Generations was made backward compatible with Xbox One. |
| February 27 2018 | Sonic Team released Puyo Puyo Tetris for Windows. |
| 2017 | GamesRadar named Sonic Generations the seventh best game in the Sonic series. |
| 2017 | Silver appears as a playable character in Sonic Forces. |
| 2017 | After the release of Sonic Forces, Sonic Team begins exploring new approaches for their next Sonic game, with Takashi Iizuka aiming to create a title that would serve as a model for future games, similar to how Sonic Adventure did in 1998. |
| 2017 | Sonic Team developed and released Sonic Forces and oversaw the development of Sonic Mania by Christian Whitehead. Mania became the best-reviewed Sonic game in fifteen years. |
| 2017 | Drake sampled the main theme 'His World' from Sonic the Hedgehog in his song 'KMT'. |
| 2017 | Gistix released a second demo of their Sonic the Hedgehog remake, which Eurogamer called ambitious. |
| November 2017 | Sonic Forces was released worldwide on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. |
| January 2017 | Fan group Gistix released a first demo of a Windows remake using the Unity engine. |
| January 2017 | Gistix released their first demo of the Sonic the Hedgehog remake, which was positively received by journalists. |
| 2016 | The A.V. Club retrospectively reviewed the game's soundtrack, noting it contained some 'genuine rippers' despite the game's poor overall reception. |
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