![THURSDAY UPDATE: Source of Leaks Allegedly Tracked Down; Sega: “No Comment” Coming from the department of “this looks legitimate to me but we’ll post it as a rumor to stay […]](http://www.tssznews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/rumor_alert_header-620x250.jpg "Rumor: Box art for upcoming Sega games leaked?")
THURSDAY UPDATE: Source of Leaks Allegedly Tracked Down; Sega: “No Comment”
Coming from the department of “this looks legitimate to me but we’ll post it as a rumor to stay on the side of caution” is a news tip from GhostSeven, who has provided us with box art scans from a couple of upcoming Sega games:
Both images call back to an October story we posted in conjunction with Sonic Paradise regarding Izaskun Urretabizkaia’s comments on a game then-titled “Sonic Anniversary” and a new Mario & Sonic game focused on the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Both box art shots apparently emerged from a Brazilian gaming website called gameLib, though the specific details of how and where they came from are not readily apparent as they aren’t attached to any visible news story.
Not to get all “I have seen quite a few shops in my time and I can tell by the pixels” on you, but by my eyes, both images look pretty legitimate, and bear no immediately obvious hallmarks of being tampered with. “CAPA NÃO DEFINITIVA” is Portuguese, and translates to “COVER NOT FINAL”.
Outside of confirming the new Mario & Sonic game set for release this year, this connects the dots from Sega’s untitled Facebook teaser to the name “Sonic Generations“, a connection many had assumed but was never set in stone.
TRISTAN UPDATE: For those doubting the authenticity of the story, the Brazil based Power Sonic actually followed up with our tipster, and they explain the box art surfaced via Brazilian based distributor MC Games, who first received the creative. MC Games does distribute some Sega games in Brazil, and according to the Power Sonic report, it appears someone within the company gave it to GameLib. The box art was intended to promote pre-release activity.
In their coverage, CVG reached out to Sega for comment, to which a firm “no comment” was given.
Depending on how this goes, this may be subject to our Sensitivity Rule.
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@KMetalMind: Because that’s how modern Sonic is, a lanky ugly mess. Thank god for the return of classic Sonic!
Ugh… another Olympics game? And my Mario vs Sonic game petition still only has six signatures. Yay…
Also, the beta Generations box-art looks okay… but Classic Sonic looks ugly. And yes, I did just say that. Go ahead, retro-fans. Flame me. At this point, I really don’t care.
Hm. Classic Sonic still looks a little funky. Ah well, I’ve always liked “Modern” Sonic more, anyway…
I think it’s fake … only for a single reason: The harvest has not (yet) offices in Brazil.
i feel like the generation one is fake…or i’ve just been prank way too many times with the “leaked” box art.
and hey, isn’t the olympic one suppose to always have a mario or a sonic (or both lol) in the background? the olympic one looks kinda…..plain. I’m not COMPLETELY sure if they’re fake or not.
well the page for mario and sonic got taken down. wonder what happened.
@RaggtimeSonic
Yeah, check that out, he’s a whole head’s height taller,
I really hope that these are real….
You know what would be a cool Mario and Sonic game?
“Mario and Sonic Super Adventure”
A 3D PLATFORMING game featuring Mario and Sonic.
But, these game box arts could be fake. Any one could have made these on paint or something. Just to start up rumors.
They both look pretty legit to me considering there not final.
From everything I’ve read around the net everything seems to be coming true, there was rumors of 3 sonic games coming out this year this would be…
Sonic Generations
Sonic & Mario At The Olympic Games 2012
Sonic 4: Episode 2
I do recal reading about a Mario & Sonic game that wasn’t sports related, maybe it’s in early dev and will be out sometime in 2012.
Either way I love sonic and those are my 2 cents
@Ryan Bloom
Final or not, its still incredibly glaring when you leave out what should be the ‘essential’ part of the title. ‘Generations’ means nothing without ‘Sonic’
@Goodman
You’d expect this from SEGA, but not from the company that has pumped out TEN Mario Parties?
@Cloverdox
Sorry, but those reasons aren’t really good examples as to why it could be fake. That would imply that it is impossible for SEGA to change it.
At the same time, you’re wrong. The bent leg goes BEHIND the straight leg. The thing is that in the original Classic image, Classic Sonic is facing the left of the picture with his left arm up and his left leg bent while in this picture he is facing the opposite direction with his right arm up and right leg bent. But this is probably just because he’s on the left side of the picture as Modern Sonic is facing the same direction as Classic Sonic in the original image with his left arm up and leg bent.
As for the arm thing, that’s because Modern Sonic’s torso is somewhat rectangular shaped sometimes with a round and sometimes rectangular stomach (A signicant different from Modern Sonic and Adventure Sonic as Adventure Sonic always used both an oval shaped torso and oval or egg shaped stomach)
Because of this, the top half of Sonic’s torso has also grown wider since the Adventure series to allow for “Shoulders”. Since the arms come from these “shoulders”, Sonic’s arm looks like it’s sprouting from further back because of the angle. This model also makes Sonic’s arms look like seperate objects that are merely attached to the torso and bent at the attachment, part of what makes him look so “flimsy” these days. In the Adventure series they still sprouted like the classics but they were really skinny close to the torso and got wider as it got closer to the wrists. The arms were also much longer and curved so that from far away and at certain angles it’d look normal. This is don’t for technical reasons rather than design reasons and I think the same goes for Modern Sonic’s model too. They’ve never gotten that part quite down. Even Classic Sonic’s arms stick out kinda weird in 3D. lol
@FoxBoy
Oh, wow…
Where have I been? You’re totally right. I could have sworn the bent leg was in front. Every time I thought of that classic artwork, that’s the way I’d see it in my head.
And I understand what you mean about the arm thing. I take back everything I said, haha. Well, except for what I said about a new Mario and Sonic sports game. I’m almost positive that most people don’t want another. >_>
Why? I kind of expected a better crossover game.