{"id":122762,"date":"2021-01-03T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/01\/sega_celebrates_the_new_year_on_social_media_with_some_stunning_sonic_artwork"},"modified":"2021-01-03T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T02:05:00","slug":"sega-celebrates-the-new-year-on-social-media-with-some-stunning-sonic-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/03\/sega-celebrates-the-new-year-on-social-media-with-some-stunning-sonic-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega Celebrates The New Year On Social Media With Some Stunning Sonic Artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4c9d1df540f2c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4c9d1df540f2c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Plenty of familiar faces<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <span>23 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Sega also shared some holiday art\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47e6503912fab\/sega-also-shared-some-holiday-art.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/47e6503912fab\/sega-also-shared-some-holiday-art.original.jpg\" alt=\"Sega also shared some holiday art\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Sega also shared some holiday art <em>(Image: <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonic_hedgehog\/status\/1342519852548775936\">SEGA \/ Nathalie Fourdraine<\/a>)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gaming companies are sharing all sorts of special artwork on social media at the moment to celebrate the holidays and new year, and joining in on the fun is Sega&#8217;s official <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mastersystem\/sonic_the_hedgehog\">Sonic the Hedgehog<\/a><\/strong> Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>It recently shared a stunning carnival scene featuring Sonic and a number of classic characters such as Mighty, Ray, Fang and Bean. This picture was actually done by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Loopyyylupe\" rel=\"noopener\">Nathalie Fourdraine<\/a>, who has helped out with a number of covers on IDW&#8217;s Sonic comic series. We&#8217;ve also got some holiday art (above) highlighting characters like Cream and Amy Rose.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Wishing everyone a happy and healthy New Year from all of us at SEGA!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Happy New Year!\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4c9d1df540f2c\/happy-new-year.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4c9d1df540f2c\/happy-new-year.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"657\" alt=\"Happy New Year!\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Happy New Year! <em>(Image: <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonic_hedgehog\/status\/1345052148229406721\">SEGA \/ Nathalie Fourdraine<\/a>)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year marks Sonic the Hedgehog&#8217;s 30th anniversary. Sega has already mentioned how it has some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/sega_cant_wait_to_share_exciting_news_about_sonics_30th_anniversary\">very exciting news to share<\/a> and can&#8217;t wait to reveal what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to see any of these classic characters return for Sonic&#8217;s 30th anniversary? <em>Tell us down in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonic_hedgehog\/status\/1345052148229406721\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonic_hedgehog\/status\/1345052148229406721\">twitter.com<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/nintendosoup.com\/sega-shares-festive-sonic-artwork-to-celebrate-new-years-day-2021\/\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendosoup.com\/sega-shares-festive-sonic-artwork-to-celebrate-new-years-day-2021\/\">nintendosoup.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/related-info\/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e @ 2021-01-04T00:54:34+00:00 --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of familiar faces by Liam Doolan 23 hours ago Sega also shared some holiday art (Image: SEGA \/ Nathalie Fourdraine) Gaming companies are sharing all sorts of special artwork on social media at the moment to celebrate the holidays and new year, and joining in on the fun is Sega&#8217;s official Sonic the Hedgehog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}