Sonic Announcements Coming In 2011

Sonic's been at an all time this year, appearing in three well-recieved titles across gaming consoles. Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode One (8/10) was a neat throwback to the original SEGA Genesis titles, while Sonic Colours brought back the fun of the daytime levels in Sonic Unleashed by stripping down the plot and focusing on tight game-play, and Kinect exclusive Sonic Free Riders provided fun hoverboard racing as one of the peripheral's launch titles. It is no surprise, then, that SEGA have revealed today that new Sonic games will be revealed early in 2011 for release later in the year. Marketing director Alan Pritchard told CVG nothing of what the announcements would entail, but hinted that "Sonic Colours has had high reviews, it's also the highest selling pre-launch pure Sonic game we've ever done. So that's a good indication." Could this mean a sequel is in store, or perhaps a release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as the reportedly excellent title was previously limited to Nintendo consoles? More news will hit our shores next year, and one particular rumor that's been circulating is a celebratory bundle to celebrate Sonic's 20th anniversary, but it's already been confirmed that Episode Two of STH4 will release in Spring 2011 so expect a game-play trailer with new characters to be one of the "two or three" reveals teased by SEGA. Let the speculation commence...