Sonic Forces is coming out this holiday season.
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Hands-on with Sonic Forces as Sega takes its mascot hedgehog into 3D

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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We’ll find out soon if this is the comeback year for Sonic the Hedgehog.

Sega is launching a demo of Sonic Forces at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles this week. The game stars the familiar Sonic, but it takes him into the world of three dimensions. The platformer will debut on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC this holiday season. I played the demo at a preview event and interviewed Sonic Team chief Takashi Iizuka.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.