Nickelodeon and Sega have formally confirmed their Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds collaboration, following leaks on social media earlier this month.
Introduced on the 2025 Nickelodeon Youngsters’ Selection Awards on Saturday, CrossWorlds will characteristic characters from the SpongeBob SquarePants universe, in addition to a SpongeBob SquarePants-themed car and monitor.
As well as, the pair teased future Nickelodeon-themed content material from the Avatar universe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Nickelodeon characters shall be included in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds’ Digital Deluxe Version, or individually by way of a Season Cross, which will even embody the not too long ago introduced Minecraft content material, characters from Netflix sequence Sonic Prime, and “two extra yet-to-be-announced collaborations”.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds shall be launched on September 25 on PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, Swap, PS4, Xbox One, and PC. A Swap 2 model of the sport has additionally been confirmed for a later date.
Simply days earlier than Summer time Sport Fest, various leaks of obvious Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds footage appeared on-line, seemingly confirming characters that had but to be introduced.
The pinnacle of Sonic Group later shared his views on the leaking of sport content material, in an interview with VGC, saying it has the potential to break licensing offers.
“Within the occasion that you just’re coping with licensed content material, generally that leak will destroy a deal, and now you’ll be able to’t do some stuff as a result of somebody leaked one thing,” he stated.
“We realise lots of people actually, actually wish to know instantly all this nice, cool, enjoyable stuff. However finally when folks leak they’re ruining the plans and probably ruining the content material, and we’d actually like folks to consider that and perhaps not do this type of unfavourable stuff a lot.”
In a latest hands-on preview, VGC known as Crossworlds a “real contender” to this 12 months’s karting crown, going up towards Nintendo‘s Mario Kart World.
“Karting video games on Nintendo codecs are normally ranked with the caveat ‘should you don’t depend Mario Kart’, however CrossWorlds has the potential to offer gamers with a viable different that not solely embraces a few of the options left behind by Nintendo’s newest – the no-nonsense arcade racing, the addition of characters from different sequence, automobile customisation – but in addition guarantees to repeatedly replace itself greater than Nintendo’s sport would possibly, making certain it may stay contemporary for fairly a while.”
