{"id":135544,"date":"2026-01-05T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-195887"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:45:00","slug":"pac-man-joins-the-sonic-racing-crossworlds-roster-later-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/05\/pac-man-joins-the-sonic-racing-crossworlds-roster-later-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man Joins The &#8216;Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds&#8217; Roster Later This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1ccf8b5941866\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1ccf8b5941866\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"WMBPSI6hIlo\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMBPSI6hIlo?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\">\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you thought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/sonic-racing-crossworlds-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds<\/a> was slowing down anytime soon, think again. Sega has <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sonic_hedgehog\/status\/2008222145701368299\">announced<\/a> that the Pac-Man Pack will be available on <strong>7th January 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the upcoming DLC, which includes the iconic Namco character as a playable racer, PAC-MAN Festival is also kicking off a day later on <strong>8th January from 4pm PT \/ 7pm ET \/ 9th January 12am GMT<\/strong> until <strong>11th January at<\/strong> <strong>3:59 pm. PT \/ 6:59 p.m. ET \/ 11:59pm GMT<\/strong>. Note that you don&#8217;t need to buy the Pac-Man pack to take part in the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Pac-Man&#8217;s arrival is the third in the Season Pass line-up, with Mega Man set to join the race later in the year along with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Avatar: The Last Airbender.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"f58cd30187757\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f58cd30187757\/sonic-racing-crossworlds.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f58cd30187757\/sonic-racing-crossworlds.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: SEGA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Those of you looking for some more free goodies, though, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/12\/sonic-racing-crossworlds-nights-dlc-pack-launches-for-free-this-week\">NiGHTS is available<\/a> to download for the game right now, too.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, if you happened to get Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds on Switch 2 over the holiday period, know that this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch-2\/sonic-racing-crossworlds-nintendo-switch-2-edition\"><em>the<\/em> way to play the game portably<\/a> and is a huge upgrade over the Switch 1 version.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Will you be racing as Pac-Man and the ghosts in the DLC? Speed on down to the comments<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:195676,194831 @ 1767690489 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] If you thought Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds was slowing down anytime soon, think again. Sega has announced that the Pac-Man Pack will be available on 7th January 2026. Alongside the upcoming DLC, which includes the iconic Namco character as a playable racer, PAC-MAN Festival is also kicking off a day later on 8th January [&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-135544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135544","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=135544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}