A new challenger approaches.
At today’s Summer Game Fest showcase, Sega brought a new trailer for Sonic Racing: Crossworlds, its latest kart racer starring hedgehogs and their various friends who, despite being extremely fast as their whole deal, still apparently need cars sometimes.
The trailer, which you can watch embedded above, isn’t just the latest look at Crossworlds gameplay: It’s Sega throwing down a gauntlet. Sure, the Sonic racer might be releasing in the same year as a monolithic new Mario Kart release, but this time the hedgehog’s brought new friends.
Friends like Hatsune Miku.
Yes, Sega has essentially declared Sonic Racing as the Smash Bros. of kart racers. As Sonic friends raced in the trailer through gravity-defying crossing cityscapes and waterways, they were soon joined by Joker from Persona 5, Like a Dragon successor protagonist Ichiban Kasuga, and—hold your applause—global vocaloid sensation Hatsune Miku.
Following the trailer, Summer Game Fest founder and host Geoff Keighley welcomed Sonic the Hedgehog creator Takashi Iizuka to the stage, who wasted no time in doubling down on the kart racing beef. “Unlike other kart racing games,” Iizuka said, this game will have online cross-platform matchmaking.”
I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that the crowd enjoyed the jab.
But Iizuka had more. Giving one last glimpse at Crossworlds, he played a second teaser showing that one more guest racer is coming to Sonic Racing: Steve from Minecraft.
Everyone is here! In cars!
Sonic Racing: Crossworlds launches on September 25, 2025. You can wishlist it on Steam now.
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