{"id":13054,"date":"2018-02-16T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/rumour_sumo_digitals_new_kart_racer_focuses_solely_on_sonic_and_friends"},"modified":"2018-02-16T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:15:00","slug":"rumour-sumo-digitals-new-kart-racer-focuses-solely-on-sonic-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/16\/rumour-sumo-digitals-new-kart-racer-focuses-solely-on-sonic-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Sumo Digital&#8217;s New Kart Racer Focuses Solely On Sonic And Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"BRUM.\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/rumour_sumo_digitals_new_kart_racer_focuses_solely_on_sonic_and_friends\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/rumour_sumo_digitals_new_kart_racer_focuses_solely_on_sonic_and_friends\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"BRUM.\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Despite Sega&#8217;s Aaron Webber <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/sounds_like_we_might_be_getting_a_new_sonic_and_all-stars_racing_game_soon\">pouring a bucket of cold water over reports that Sumo Digital is working on a new <strong>Sonic &amp; All-Stars<\/strong> racer<\/a>, the rumours persist. We&#8217;re <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/rumor-next-sumo-sega-kart-game-to-be-mainly-exclusively-focused-on-sonic-characters.23646\/\">now hearing<\/a> that Sumo is indeed beavering away on a Sonic-themed speed-fest, but this time around it <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> be pulling in characters from the wider Sega universe and will instead focus on Sonic and his pals &#8211; just like <strong>Sonic R<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamegear\/sonic_drift_2\">Sonic Drift<\/a>,<\/strong> racing titles of old.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence is a member on The Sonic Stadium forum who previously predicted that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_forces\">Sonic Forces<\/a><\/strong> would have a character editor &#8211; whether or not that&#8217;s convincing enough for you is all down to personal preference.<\/p>\n<p>If this <em>is<\/em> true, and Sumo is indeed creating a Sonic racer which ignores Sega&#8217;s other games, it could be seen as something of a step down from the brilliance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/sonic_and_all_stars_racing_transformed\"><strong>S<\/strong><strong>onic &amp; All-Stars Racing Transformed<\/strong><\/a>, which really celebrated the company&#8217;s proud heritage by featuring properties such as <strong>Shinobi, Golden Axe, Alex Kidd, Afterburner, Skies of Arcadia<\/strong> and many others. However, as long as the game is of a high enough quality, the world of Sonic should be more than enough to ensure it reaches a wide audience &#8211; and let&#8217;s face it, Sumo&#8217;s work in this genre is <em>excellent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if you buy this particular rumour &#8211; and if you think Sumo really is working on something &#8211; by posting a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Sega&#8217;s Aaron Webber pouring a bucket of cold water over reports that Sumo Digital is working on a new Sonic &amp; All-Stars racer, the rumours persist. We&#8217;re now hearing that Sumo is indeed beavering away on a Sonic-themed speed-fest, but this time around it won&#8217;t be pulling in characters from the wider Sega universe [&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-13054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054","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=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}