Everyone else has had their say but Blake Draco's here to save the day! Or something to that effect at least, perhaps put a plaster over the top of its bruised nose.

Yes its another Sonic Wrecks review, this time of Sonic & The Black Knight - what did Blake Draco have to say? What did the SW Crazed Fanboy have to say? Check out the Reviews section of the Depository to find out.

It snuck on you may not have noticed, but the Screensavers are back in the Depository. Also MORE updates to the forum - IT JUST WON'T STOP!!!!

Part of the charm of the "old" Entherial online was that there was lots to look at and you could hunt through the forum to find the little references in image names and things like that. However one of the biggest things was the text itself was very "off the wall", if you forgot to add in a subject line when sending a PM like as not you'd get the mickey taken out of you in some way... or Frost would get angry with you and bite you in the bum.

Well I yesterday I went through the new code for the board and basically put in EVERY SINGLE ONE of those custom statements from the old E-On into the new and current E-On and even added some more. And some of the current usergroups have mysteriously had updates....

There's also a MASSIVE update coming later to do with the Depository... big day for SW related stuff!

Edit - Oh and we've climbed ANOTHER 25,000 places on Alexa(!)

I'm back from the family home and all hell has broken loose, Jetix and Gaya have renewed and/or extended their rights deals with SEGA and the second Sonic Unleashed DLC has gone online on XBox Live- I knew nothing of this. *Sigh*

In any case my little sujourn here is about Gaya Entertainment, more specifically a correction to every single other website out there.

Its just a quick point really - everyone has been reporting that Gaya are the ones responsible for bringing us the infamous Sonic chess set. Really? I don't own one - do you? I know T-Bird doesn't. My point is thats all they've released and they actually haven't, all they've brought us so far is a promotional image - just like these new squeezy keychain-things, its a promotional image. Not the actual product.

So if you're getting all excited out there, so far Gaya have in effect not brought us ANYTHING at all. Until they actually release something physical I'm not gonna be all excited about it - I'm just not.

Its Tuesday... just! So time for another update of magnificence - I had a fantastic day Monday so I've added not just music but comics to the Depository.

Fleetway #4 and #5 have been upgraded to full issues and to maintain the "animated" theme the music from SatAM has been added again!

Also: In E-On News something has returned to the board. But what? Ah its a mystery....

- Date times should now be working properly, number one.

- #403:The Lemsip Plus Hour was being referred to mistakenly as The Lemsip Max Hour on the file which was casuing some issues. RSS and the individual pages have been updated with this fix.

- In apology of this mess up, please find Sonic CD European/Japan edition now up in the Depository music section.

- Blake Draco's profile has had a small edit, nothing major. Just a trim.

- There are still a couple of groups the forum haven't discovered yet.

Can you tell I'm getting on a roll with the updates this weekend? There's another update in the Music section of the Shadow Depository with the SEGASonic The Hedgehog soundtrack returning.

EDIT: Sonic Wrecks would like to wish Lee Brotherton a very happy birthday, the cheeky chappy who is in Japan at the moment to promote his debut album TRANS//LATION (of which I've just pre-ordered a copy for myself and for Blake Draco) is 24 today.

Yes it scares me that Lee is 2 years younger than me.

As its a show missing from the Sonic Show archives following TSS's death. If you have it let me know. Discoponies would be most grateful.

It's 1:20am which means its a perfect time to do a Sonic Wrecks update! Yes and here it is for you, the most recent show (15/03/09) along with show notes, show notes for the rest of the series three shows and an update to iTunes, RSS, and RRPlay.

Also I'm busy re-uploading 401 as it mysteriously lost its tags and artwork it seems.

TECHNICAL EDIT OF "SHOULD REALLY GET TO SLEEPNESS": Following a very valid point in the forum, I've looked into the news setup and as you can see you'll now see they have times when posted too! :) TIME EXTENSION!

9:18am Edit: The minutes and timezone issue has been fixed.

Minor edit made to the Sonic 1 (8-Bit) page and the link to the Wrecks Factor album is now fixed from the music page.

Another day another couple of games up in the music section, this time its the 16 and 8 Bit versions of Sonic The Hedgehog 2.

...and I can play- (what can you play?) I play the.... stuff in the Shadow Depository. Yes, after lots of whining I've decided to start converting the Shadow Depository music pages to the new format.

As it stands the Music page has returned to the navigation bar and to start off we've three specific albums for you, including of course the special Shadow Depository album art for those amongst you with an iPod or the like.

- Sonic The Hedgehog (1991)
- Sonic The Hedgehog (8-Bit)
- Wrecks Factor: The Album (aka Wrecks Factor 06-07)

In a sad story, in a little under an hour fansite NoMoreBlue will cease to be... Discoponies and Cold Dog deciding to pull the plug as costs mounted. Sonic Arena 2 will remain for all those of you that care about it but Sonic Arena 1 is going down with the NMB ship. Sad Panda.

TSS has also changed its skin, returning to the look of 2007 in an "everything old is new again" update. In glorious news this according to Dreadknux will see and end of the Web 2.0 malarky and TSS actually going back to what made it great with cool Sonic news and journalistic updates. And information. We want information! Apparently Sonic Wrecks is partly a catalyst due to us becoming more awesome. See; SW improving the fanbase one bash on the bonce at a time.

With thanks to Captain Urtheart of the good ship Heartless we now have rather a large collection of comic scans that were available to download on torrent - therefore they've appeared online before and are fair game!

You can now find Sonic The Comic issues #1-3 in the Depository, these are now full issues not just the first story.

Edit: And the preview of new comic Sonic Universe #2 is also up.

The staff page is up so if you want to find out a little about the members of staff on this website and what they do the Staff page listed under the "Sonic Wrecks" section of the left nav is a good place to start

Archie have uploaded a new preview of Sonic Universe #2, this will be added to the depository later, no fear along with some OTHER comic items - but first before I nip off and have my weekly call with Clumsyorchid et al, over at SOA lemmie quickly show you this - it's Angelus drawn by Archie!



To explain, T-Bird very kindly got me one of Matt Herms' Sonic sketchbooks for my birthday (I thought I was buying one... apparently not) and Matt did some custom sketches for people on the back page - and I chose Angelus. Thus you can see what he'd look like if officially inserted into the Archie unvierse. Neat huh?

We're going live momentarily... to listen in to Radio Redux open this for MP3 or this for OGG.

My personal RSS has cunningly updated with news that Bentley Jones’ new website has gone live - but what he also confirms is that the track that will be appearing on a certain SBK related disc is a remix of “Seven Rings In Hand”.

Now I’ll be honest here, 7RiH isn’t exactly my favourite Sonic song (in fact the whole SatSR OST can take a running jump tbh) but I can tell you having heard the BJ version, which is very different, I now dislike the original even more - because the BJ version is that awesome and left me going “why couldn’t it have been like that originally!”

Incidentally, its actually even more Arabic than the previous one and even includes the use of sitars. Can you say Arabic Dance/Trance?

Yes, I'm aware its very early and that Echo will kill me as I'm still very ill but I've an update for you. The latest Radio Redux, last Sunday's effort to be exact, has gone up live on RRPlay and iTunes etc.

Whacky iTunes Summary: "Dreadknux fiddled whilst TSS burned. Flithy beast."

Also up are the show notes for #402, #321 (as the link wasn't put live for some reason) and #318 and I've given the Forthcoming items a bit of an update for good measure.

Sunday's show should (vocals permitting) be still going ahead.

As some of you may be aware the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed has had a patch update and not only this you can go get Chun-nan Adventure Pack for only 250 Microsoft Points available on the marketplace, this pack includes four day levels and two night levels to play.

We'll be covering this in our Sonic Unleashed review which is coming soon along with Sonic 06 and Sonic & The Black Knight.

A new Sonic Show episode is (re-put) up - #1 MY SONIC ROMANCE

I'm off to go hang with Lee Brotherton tomorrow which is groovy, I'll pass on your best and I'll also get a good listen to the full album so watch this space.

It seems that we might well be having Radio Redux live as usual despite the TSS issues recently. Please feel free to tune in at the usual time.

EDIT: we're live in 10 minutes from this Edit... to listen in to Radio Redux open this for MP3 or this for OGG.

See you there.

AAUK

Every website wants to say what they think about the games, because naturally they think they could do better. As such Sonic Wrecks has moved into actually reviewing games because you know, we could do better... not that we have a particualrly realistic grasp of how games are made, prefering instead to just assume that anything we think of is possible to do, that games don't have to make money in any way and all that is needed to make them is to wave a magic wand and go "A-la Peanut Butter Sandwiches!"

As such games are reviewed with the following scores out of ten.

THE ACTUAL SCORE - A mark by the reviewer out of ten based upon their experiences with the game and also taking into account the games standings as a standalone title not based on those titles that came before it.

THE ACHIEVEMENT HOG SCORE - A mark out of ten based around the ease and structure of achievements within the game and how well it sits in the library of the infamous Gamerpoint addicts, (360, PS3 Titles Only)

THE SW'S CRAZED FANBOY SCORE - A score from the mind of a sterotypical over the top SEGA/Sonic fanboy.

Our first game up reviewed by our reviewer, Blake Draco is the SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection. You can find the reviews section under the Shadow Depository tab on the navigation bar.

It had to be done, it just had to....

New comic now live.

The first Radio Redux episode of the new series has gone online and features the results of the Wrecks Factor! Available on iTunes, the RSS and also can be streamed by clicking on RRPlay in the left navigation.

A new Sonic competition has begun on the the Sonic City Blognik, which is open to European and Australian Sonic fans.

Three copies of triple disc Japanese soundtrack "Planetary Pieces" - the music for Sonic Unleashed are up for grabs and all you have to do is answer a very simple question about the theme tune.

Check out the blog post here for details on how to enter.

Morning guys, TSS is at least more than a site not found page now. The "SSMB" has been restarted however this is still a very basic board, people are still welcome to call the E-On forum a home and I repeat that any TSS activities wanting promotion such as SSR shows I'll gladly help you out with. Just PM me on E-On.

Also it seems Dreadknux has managed to get TSS up...somewhat now. However if anyone has any of the Sonic Show videos Discoponies needs your help. If you have any of them including all the little bonus ones please contact him at jaynaughtyangel(AT)hotmail(DOT)com

Hi guys, I've been on the phone with Dreadknux as over the last few hours the extent of whats happened to our friends at TSS has been revealed and its not good. Myself and Dreadknux want to keep you in the loop as much as possible so he might end up becoming a poster here in the short term.

Essentially TSS has been deleted by the hosts, the reason for this was that TSS had apparently canceled its automatic payments for its server which is ludicrous as only B'Man would be able to do that and he obviously did not. The hosts also claim that they sent various reminders to B'Man (of what I don't know) but unfortunately the admin email address had not been updated and as a result they went to B'Man's old address.

Why they decided to delete everything immediately and not suspend the account I have no idea and when you consider that Dreadknux and B'Man were speaking to them about the server outages and it was never mentioned to them in those conversations it all smacks of some dodgy customer service IMO.

So where does TSS stand at the moment.

Everything "pre-wordpress" is gone, with the exception of the stuff Dreadknux has recovered from the wonderous Wayback machine and things he has on CD (like SoS 2006 thankfully).

The worst news is that after years of hard word SSMB is gone, the database was wiped and is unrecoverable which is a sad thing indeed and everything will have to be started from scratch - I really feel for Roarey Racoon at the moment who put his heart and soul into that place.

You can add to that SEGASonic Radio is off air, The Sonic Show is assumedly also effected as well as Sonic Showcase Network.

So what now? Dreadknux is already sorting out TSS's resurrection ELSEwhere. Sonic Wrecks until TSS is back on its feet will keep you up to date on all matters regarding its progress as well as its usual content.

As of this moment Entherial Online is back to being Entherial Online and we welcome any SSMB members who'd like to join - so long as they behave themselves nicely.

Radio Redux shows will be recorded on a Sunday until the ability to broadcast live on SSR is restored. I also invite any SSR DJs who wish to continue their shows as normal as possible that they are welcome to contact me and we'll see about hosting recorded shows of yours on SW for now.

Essentially consider us the 'Sonic Wrecks Stadium' until our friends get back on their feet. Otherwise SW itself will not be effected.

More to come as and when, our first official SW review is coming in the next couple of days as will some other items of note. Radio Redux #401 put off until Thursday under the circumstances.

For everything there is a season - a time to be born and a time to die and sadly the TSS server has died again. On this occasion it seems to be a doozy as wellas its been offline for nearly an entire day now.

SSMB addicts in need of a fix can join Entherial Online, or as it currently is in commentary at the amount of crushes general omfg teen angst things going on in some parts there atm "Dawsontherial Creekline".

EDIT: More on TSS situation to follow, please stay tuned. In the event that disruption lasts til Sunday then this weeks Radio Redux will be a recorded show.

For those that missed the Radio Redux show Sunday expect it to go up maybe Wednesday - however as of now Season 3 is entirely on the RSS feed and I'll be starting on sorting out Season 2 soon enough.

#321: Dreams Of An Ab-Snow-Lution

"After a year's worth of talking nonsense AAUK brings the 2008 season to a close by revealing the entries for the Wrecks Factor 2008 competition."

A cunning reminder...

Happy Birthday to staff member Echo Hawk who is 21 years old today!

This went up yesterday as it happens, but nevermind eh?

"After the announcement last week ArchangelUK is once again on his way back from the United States, but Urtheart, Vger of Emerald Coast and Sonic Wrecks staff member Blake Draco (appearing on Radio Redux for the first time) have a show full of surprises and congratulations."

Woot. SW's Alexa ranking has risen again! I used to date a girl called Alexa, true story.

Anyway, a quick update here guys as to be honest I've just come back from a transport nightmare which saw me take THREE HOURS to get home from London... and I live in London (more or less).

Archie have uploaded their preview of Sonic Archives #10, so you can now find this in the Comics section to download. Also Urtheart might be able to source a LOT more comic scans so watch this space.

Last year, Sonic Wrecks held, with the support of The Sonic Stadium and of SEGA Europe the world’s first Sonic the Hedgehog fan convention in London’s Covent Garden. With a playable demo of Sonic Chronicles TWO MONTHS before release, the Guinness Book of Records adjudicating Sonic 2 times, a special song from Dreams of an Absolution singer Lee Brotherton, signings from Sonic the Comic’s Nigel Kitching and a performance from TJ Davis and Richard Jacques (!), the Summer of Sonic metamorphasised overnight from a quaint little British meetup to an internationally recognised, had-to-go-there event.

And as you may already know, we’re doing it all again this year. Only bigger.

We can reveal right now that the confirmed date for the next Summer of Sonic will be Saturday 29th August 2009. The venue has not been finalised, but it will be situated in London, UK.

What we want to know is how many of you will come to SoS 09 on this date.

The reasons for this are pretty straightforward, if you knew that we had to turn many people away from the event in 2008. The demand far outstripped the capacity of the poor community hall that we had hired for the day. In a space suited for 200, the Dragon Hall Covent Garden saw 300 Sonic-crazed people flock through their doors. Had we not restricted entry on the Summer of Sonic website, and fully promoted the event in the media as we originally planned, who knows how many people would have showed up.

So what we’re doing here is getting a sample of interested people so we (that’s the Summer of Sonic organisation staff - consisting of myself in my dual SEGA Europe / Sonic Wrecks roll and Dreadknux) can get an idea of how big a hall we can squeeze out of our budget. All you need to do is post a comment at the TSS version of this post stating how many in your household are able to come to this event on the 29th August.

While we can’t reveal anything in regards to what will actually be there this year, here’s some information that will whet your appetite - Jun Senoue knows of Summer of Sonic. Richard Jacques said he would happily attend another SoS. You couldn’t stop Lee Brotherton from getting involved again. Sonic Team’s reaction to SoS 2008 was also reported to be very positive, and SEGA Europe as a whole are both very keen to be more involved yet very respectful as to this being about a fan gathering rather than a buck generator.

This, coupled with the success of Covent Garden last year, should be an indication that there will be at least several things at SoS 2009 to get super-excited about.

GO TO THE SONIC STADIUM POST TO COMMENT AND MAKE YOUR INTEREST KNOWN.

Making a welcome return to the Shadow Depository is the Comics section -or should I say the new and expanded comic section. You'll find I'll now be including all the Archie preview scans etc when they go live so the amount of media will be considerable especially as I've been hunting through their image archives for old scans!

So all the old comics are up but I've added several new additions.

Sonic The Comic: Issue #070 - Complete
Sonic The Hedgehog: Issue #178 - Archie Preview
Sonic The Hedgehog: Issue #179 - Archie Preview
Sonic The Hedgehog: Issue #182 - Archie Preview
Sonic The Hedgehog: Issue #192 - Archie Preview
Sonic The Hedgehog: Issue #194 - Archie Preview
Sonic X: Issue #24 - Archie Preview
Sonic X: Issue #25 - Archie Preview
Sonic Universe: Issue #001 - Archie Preview + Clean Cover Art
Sonic Archives: Volume #09 - Archie Preview
Sonic Select: Volume #02 - Archie Preview

Another week another climb in the Alexa rankings - thank you very much to all of you who are vsisiting the website. We've climbed over 100,000 places in a very short space of time - woo!

I'm pleased to announce that Dreadknux has FINALLY sent me his marks for the Wrecks Factor which means I can announce that Radio Redux will be returning to SEGASonic Radio next Sunday, March 1st.

Dunno how long it'll last for but we are coming back to make SSR that much more awesome again.

In a variation on Emerald Coast's Weekly News Roundup I'm going to do a rundown weekly every Sunday on the actions of my affiliates.

NiGHTSintoDreams.com - Its fair to say life hasn't been that good to my friends DiGi and TRiPPY recently, but their never say die attitude warms the heart. And, despite adversity our favourite red and green haired artist and bunny boi have managed to spend some time on the site and return to give NiD a nice new forum update as well as a new DreamCast show - the first for MANY months. Go to the site and have a listen. I will be doing so over my lunch which I'm goign to now go and make.

Oh, and BUY TRiPPY'S COMIC!

(And STORMRISE)

The Sonic Stadium - The Sonic Stadium is (at the time of writing) up! HUZZAH! Lots going on behind the scenes esxpecially with SEGASonic Radio. I'll have some good news about SSR later on today with any luck. Of course Slingerland has been providing "Sonic related content" daily as well as launching a competition to get people to make a twit of themselves by dressing up in the Black Knight papercrafts.

However over the last week T-Bird has been feeding people a real gem of a series where he talks about Sonic merchandise, through rareities and also most recently a guide on how to spot the fakes on eBay.

You remember when TSS used to have really interesting articles like that all the time? *shrugs* I HIGHLY recommend you check that series out..

Emerald Coast - I'd like to officially reclassify Emerald Coast as "The New Sonic Yoda", there's a reason for that as I always said Yoda had the most potential to be the next breakout Sonic website. Well now I think the same can be said of EC. There was no comnic this week because Vger had a headache or something but they've not long ago launched a review of the latest Impact Innovations product that I hadn't realised had gone on sale - basically a Sonic scaletrix set

SEGA Driven - Speaking of Sonic Yoda, what they became - SEGA Driven - has been very quietly going about its business. I REALLY wish they had an RSS feed though - oh and incidentally guys your platform icons are all over the place and there's a broken image on OutRun Online Arcade btw. needs t3h fix0rz. This week saw a rather pleased review of House Of The Dead Overkill, a frustrated sigh at the SBK Percival trailer and Dreadknux complains how Yakuza 3 isn't slated to come out over here yet when Japan now has a demo.

I can only assume he knows all about the inner workings of SEGA and how much Yakuza 1 and 2 sold over here. Whatever you do, don't tell him about how the industry doesn't do simulateous global releases - he may have a coronary or something.

One of these days people will realise that SEGA, Capcom, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Bandai Namco, EA, Rockstar, etc are businesses that make business decisions. I know fans seem to think that companies should do "this", "this" and "this" RIGHT NOW and it should all be on sale for next to nothing but if you think its that easy you're living in a fantasy world. SEGA fans always seem to want SEGA to re-release or make sequels to games that are either not possible to do through rights issues or (most often) make sequels to games that did poorly at retail.

Oh and they aren't allowed to make any sequels to commerically successful games like M&S because that's profiteering. Seriously some of you need to get a sodding grip.

Angry and frustrated rant over.

The Sonic Show - Is working on a new website and will be undergoing a distinct change in format becoming less "30-60 minute nightmare" and more "regular accessable items". Discoponies is REALLY putting in the effort here, I just hope the TSS server doesn't continue to kick him in the balls for said effort.

Sonic City - Don't talk to me about City as I'm rather cross. I'm still waiting for approvals to put Phase 1 live.

Sonic Style - Demx has been working hard on rejuvinating the site after a server move. All the comics are now back online at our American cousin. Sonic Billboard is back as well.

SSN - Your guess is as good as mine at this point.

Radio SEGA / Fastfeet Media - Ditto.

Upset Webmaster Related Edit:

Sonic Cage Dome - They exist and are doing lots and lots of stuff indeed. Oh yes!

Not many shows left to add into to the RSS feed for Radio Redux - Series 3, this show though was a great one as this was the one broadcast live from a Kentucky Hotel with Echo Hawk - and we announce we're engaged.

But its also the one where we actually have a proper and serious debate about Sonic games for once and it comes off surprisingly well. I'm none to happy with Sonic Adventure's place on its fan pedestal so try to knock it off. I think I semi-succeed.

Summary: Broadcasting live from the Blue Grass Stage, ArchangelUK has travelled back to America and Kentucky for the second time in 2008 and is joined once more by Echo Hawk... in a hotel room... its all highly suspicious. Or is it?! Oh - and AAUK is annoyed at everyone for likeing Sonic Adventure so much.

Another day another Radio Redux show added to the RSS - this is the first of the shows added to the RSS that actually hadn't been before. There's three more after this.

Description: ArchangelUK returns to normal matters with Sonic Unleashed - because he's got the game well before release! He gets to confirm some details NOT THE US RELEASE DATE THOUGH and even gets in a world exclusive track play.

TSS is down... AGAIN by the way. Poor B-Man... I feel for you man. I really, really do.

Through the fire and the flames - its Blaze the Cat! And a dragon! And mine cart track! Just finished uploading this to the SEGA Europe YouTube account - you can catch it below.

Also in HD where avalable!

The news archive has returned - w00t.

Also making a return to the RSS and iTunes at least is the last of the released Radio Redux shows prior to the decision to, you know, re-number, re-work and re-release them. It's the 2008 Hallow'een special "Pumpkin Chill".

Description: "It's a Zombie Jamboree! It's also a tad late, but what the hey - another Radio Redux Hallow'een spectacular!"

You may have noticed that I have me some very fancy new artwork courtesy of Professor J to replace the old Angelus artwork (though you'll still see it around) - this is the first of the new wave of staff stuff.

Following up on that Ram The Dragon has sent me a late birthday gift of some art... awww isn't she the sweetest? Check it out here.

TSS has gone offline for "a period of time" for "a reason".

LB has updated his blog as his first album under his Bentley Jones persona gets ready to rock and roll. We seem to be yaking on the phone every other day at the moment and there are plans to hook up for an SBK interview (+ beverage) very soon. However EMI Japan have released the track list for the album. See below:

1) FINAL NIGHT (Sunao ni naretara ~FINAL NIGHT~)
2) Tsuyoku Hakanai Monotachi
3) Kibun Joujou
4) Don’t Wanna Cry
5) Gekkou
6) Dramatic
7) TRANS//LATION (Interlude)
8) DEPARTURES
9) Depend On You (Depend On Me)
10) WHITE LOVE
11) SPRING
12) GLAMOROUS SKY

It's Episode 12 of the Robot Legion arc and glory be not only does Metal Sonic freaking sing but there's an appearance from a certain TRAITOR!

She's sexy in real life tho folks and not a traitor at, er, at all...

...someone help me! She has me prisoner in the- NO! NOT THE BRANDING IRON! ARRRRRRRRGGGHHH!!!!!

It's back. It's without DC. Er... It's back!

Online once again for RSS, iTunes, etc.

- The Merch List has been update with a birthday present from Vger of Emerald Coast who sent me a copy of "Where's Sonic?" - and who inadvertantly gave me an idea for a new comic sub-series....

- The first page of Shadow Depository media has returned (because its pretty standalone) and it is the Fonts page. It's been added to the Depository navigation section for ease.

- I've also added a Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games header to the rotating top images as well incidentally.

To answer this question I refer you solely to the Demx (Sonic Style) and Dreadknux (The Slingerland Sonic Stadium) whose marks for the Wrecks Factor I'm still waiting for. Both Ram The Dragon and Lee Brotherton...the..er...not-a-Dragon have submitted both marks and MP3s to me and until messers Charles and Svend give me their marks I won't be doing the first show of the year. Its very simple. So go get on their case!

#315 (Previously LiVE #109) The Apple Computers Sleep Deprevation Show - which is the one where I'm very tired and the TSS chatroom fails big time in helping out with stuff to talk about to the point where I just say "screw it" and end the show. Has been added to the RSS, iTunes and the like.

Back on your RSS, back on iTunes and the like. Sweeeeeet.

- I'm pleased to say this has now been fixed and both the game list and the merch list are back online and the merch list infact has had a slight update.

- SEGA Driven, despite them being miffed that SEGA should DARE make games that make money - replace Sonic Yoda in the affliliates section.

- The Sonic Wrecks Alexa ranking has climbed 30,000 places since the launch of version 6.0. Nice. I'm aiming to get it as high as possible.

First things first, the good stuff - Radio Archive has been replaced with the PROPER Radio Archive as it seems either I uploaded the old one accidentally or a backup replaced it. Comic Archive's comic navigation panel fixed - was missing a div tag closure.

The bad stuff - there's currently an internal server error on the deposiory folder - which worries me as everything is still "there" but hidden and I really don't want to have to upload everything again. But as a result the Games List and Merch list are currently unavailable. We're looking into whats up with the folder.

SW will be doing reviews soon, of past and present as well as about to come out games thanks to another duty for Blake Draco - he is now our official reviewer.

Blake continues to do superb work behind the scenes so congrats to him. I'd give him a reward but he's already got one... he knows what I mean. Lol.

At 2pm UK time this very day, AAUK was pleased to announce that Mario & Sonic will be facing off again, this time at Vancouver, Canada in Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games.

He was later said to be "so bloody tired" and that he hated YouTube immensely for pissing him around with the M&S Trailer.

Coming to both Nintendo Wii and DS it is once again being developed by SEGA with the guidance of the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto and you really don't need me to list his credits do you now? Players once again will journey to realistic venues to be used at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver to take their favourite Mario/Sonic character and do battle in events such as alpine skiing and speed skating, with more events to be revealed in time as well as - and I'm sure our friends at Nintendo won't mind me borrowing this term, ahem - Warning! New challengers approaching!

Who? What? From where? Let the rumour mill commence!

As before, the Wii and DS versions will feature different controls, features and game modes making both games very different - the Wii version in particular has something of an extra treat as you'll be able to experience an even richer multi-player experience including co-operative gameplay. And for all those who on the forums fantacised about an M&S Winter game using the Wii balance board... wish granted! You'll be able to use that particular gizmo for even more realistic play.

Teaser Trailer:

It’s just been announced that Lee Brotherton alius Bentley Jones (Dreams of an Absolution, Open Your Heart Remix from True Blue, Sonic Rivals) will be delghting us all with another nice forray into the world of Sonic with a track towards the soundtrack of Sonic & The Black Knight.

I’ve heard a bit of it over the phone, and whilst its disappointingly not a techno version of “What A Feeling” (private joke between me and Lee) it certainly ticks all the Bentley Jones boxes of awesomeness.

Two thumbs fresh!

- AAUK -

Thank you for my birthday wishes! :)

Another Radio Redux show returns, and yes these are going to continue daily most likely.

"Another week, another livecast and this week ArchangelUK is offering listeners a competition as well as talking about where Unleashed's website has gone, rewriting Sonic City pages and just why you can't have all things all ways with Sonic Chronicles."

With only a few minutes of Sunday left, I've added #312 to the Radio Redux RSS feed, added a few new items to the rotating headers - three left logo items (my avatar, a goal ring and Caliburn) and one new SBK themed banner.

The Depository now has a list of games which will be used as a place people can navigate for specific media.

Under construction naturally.

Today has been an incredibly productive day, as I've made some tweaks to the CSS which may not be wholely noticeable but which makes the site look that much better. I've also fixed the Merch List as that was behaving rather oddly.

Now that the comics are out the way we're back on to Radio Redux matters, as a result I've added the next re-numbered show to the RSS file and so #311: Home Again, Home Again... is back up for you to download. What I've also created today was the brand new Radio Redux archive page. This looks so nice you have to see it to believe it. There aren't any show notes at the moment, but that little niggle will will be addressed soon.

I'll be backdating/updating as I go along the older shows, expect yet another show, #312, to be added tomorrow.

...so you can enjoy them all once again. It only took me another 2.5 hours of hard grind, still at least I wasn't playing WoW - the pleasure of 2.5 hours grinding on that would've actually cost me money.

I've also fixed the error in the archive for comic #021, added comic notes for ALL the old header comics (Retro, Download, etc) and about four recent comics and updated the Merchandise List as well with my new STH #196 comic.

Up next on the reworking list will be the Radio Redux section.

#030-044 to be precise, I did a few more so it goes up to the first part of the Ragnarok trilogy.

In other news cows are actually 34% asbesdos. True story.

The archive grows with tonights ten returning comics - I'm now off to bed in a state of great anger.

Yay.

Okay if you've hit the site since about 1pm UK time you may have found that the forum was 403ing. You may even have found the home page was 403ing... this was because at about 1:20pm ALL the index.php files disappeared off the site.

ALL of them.

Now thats not a coincidence so Startlogic (hello to the support team incidentally) are looking into what the fricking hell happened.

Not only that but the magic javascript code for RRPlay mysteriously vanished. I'm happy to put that one down to me at some point but its still something I've noted.

I'll keep you informed.

...I've just come back from having a drink with Yuji Naka and a rather in depth 30 minute conversation. Today was rather surreal. I'll tell you more tomorrow.

Crazy.

Hi everyone, I hope you've enjoyed the snow today if you were one of those "lucky" people able to grab it. Personally I want it to melt all away for a very good reason... a meeting tomorrow which could very well be pretty damn amazing.

Anyway tonights updates are here as everyone acclimatises to Wrecks being beyond awesome, I've made a few fixes here and there but everything seems fine atm.

COMICS - #011-020 now online again.
DEPOSITORY - The Merchandise List returns with updates including some new vinyl and comics.

Well its here! I said it'd be up for the end of the weekend - and yes I know there's an AWFUL lot still to do. But its so long a process I frankly just wanted to get on with it. So let me summarise what'll be coming up first.

GENERAL
Yeah things have changed a bit, I've had enough of SW being ignored so I'm gonna make people take notice. You'll also notice I stuck to my guns on no Wordpress but the layout of the news has changed dramatically and you'll find certain new categories will eventually appear. And avatars! My goodness!
PS - As a surprise to the younger staff, Blake Draco and Ram The Dragon, a Sonic Adventure style version of YOUR avatars will be appearing at some point too!

COMICS
As of now all Sonic Wrecks comics have been renumbered. There is no such thing as "Specials" or "Wreckslets" anymore. Just Sonic Wrecks comic of wildly different sizes. The latest comic is visible and the Latest Comic page is done. Whilst the comics have ALL been renumbered and the archive page is ready the Archive itself is not ready to go yet. This will be the first item on the agenda. Get the comics back up! Also all the previous mini-comic headers (Retro, Hogfight Dogfight, Condensed, etc) have been inserted into the archive list in their proper chronological place and have been turned into actual comics with disclaimers and the like.

RADIO REDUX
The archive for this will be the second item on the list, however as a special treat as of Saturday evening all Season 3 shows are now up on RRPlay for you to enjoy. This is before they even join the Radio Redux RSS and also includes the last three shows of the series which hadn't actually been put out yet on the "old" RSS.

SHADOW DEPOSITORY
Expect this to get a massive overhaul in terms of layout with sections to be set out by GAME as well as by media type.

More soon everyone!

- ArchangelUK -

1AM Edit: The Sonic Wrecks comic archive page is now online, whist archive paegs with (altered) comic notes for #001-010 as well as most recent comic #085 have also gone online.