{"id":655346,"date":"2026-06-24T06:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655346\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:27:10","slug":"classic-sonic-joins-sonic-racing-crossworlds-in-a-free-update-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655346\/","title":{"rendered":"“Classic Sonic” Joins Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds In A Free Update This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds<\/a> recently committed to a second year of free and paid updates, and as part of the blue blur’s 35th birthday bash this week, Sega has revealed three new characters.<\/p>\n

Starting today, racers can now play as “Classic Sonic”, including his machine, the “Mach Cyclone”. He will be followed by Axel from Crazy Taxi<\/a> at some point in August 2026 and Amigo from Samba De Amigo<\/a> in September 2026. This update will also include a new Sega Music Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Images: SEGA<\/p>\n

In case you missed it, the Sonic Racing announcement earlier this month revealed Season Pass 2, including six new DLC packs. This will kick off with Godzilla and Evangelion, with more details to be shared later on in 2026.<\/p>\n

This upcoming content follows paid content based on games and series such as Pac-Man<\/a>, Minecraft<\/a> and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/a>. You can see the full patch notes<\/a> for this new update in our latest post.<\/p>\n

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What do you think of the latest characters revealed for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

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About Liam Doolan<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam is a news writer and reviewer on Nintendo Life. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds recently committed to a second year of free and paid updates, and as part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19413,59,137,376,214,2357,86,56,54,55,1232],"class_list":["post-655346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-anniversaries","tag-gb","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-sega","tag-sonic","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}