Team Sonic Racing is coming this winter.

Team Sonic Racing hands-on — Kart racing fans are getting another lap

It’s almost time to start your Sonic engines.

Sega is slowly taking the wraps off Team Sonic Racing, a mascot kart-racing game. It revealed the game last week, and today it is unleashing the first hands-on previews. I was able to play the single-player version of the game in a brief demo recently. That was the tiniest piece of the game, but it gave me an idea of how it will distinguish itself from the pack.

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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.