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Sonic Frontiers' original soundtrack, 'Stillness & Motion', has officially passed over 100 million streams as of September 2023. The announcement was made on SEGA Japan's official social media channels this morning. Tomoya Ohtani's eclectic masterpiece originally launched as a standalone soundtrack release back in late 2022 to coincide with the Sonic Frontiers game itself, and featured a whopping SIX discs worth of music covering open zone audio, Cyberspace stage BGMs and boss themes - the latter of which being the most popular, with 'Undefeatable' in particular racking up over 20 million listens on Spotify to date. Ohtani-san posted on social media this morning to thank fans who invested in the Stillness & Motion OST. "I'm ecstatic to announce that the Sonic Frontiers Original Soundtrack Stillness & Motion surpassed 100 million streams as of last September," he wrote. "I can't find the words to thank you enough." SEGA Japan announced that it would set a discount on the digital purchase of the Stillness & Motion soundtrack on iTunes for a limited time in celebration of the news, but at present this does not seem to apply to iTunes stores outside of Japan. We'll update if this is reflected in the West too.

Sonic Frontiers has seemingly become the fastest-selling mainline 3D Sonic the Hedgehog game ever, as SEGA casually announced yesterday that its latest open-zone adventure has sold 3.5 million units. This puts it above the last officially-released sales data for Sonic Heroes (in 2007), which previously held the title with around 3.4 million units. The new milestone means that Sonic Frontiers has sold an additional 300,000 units since the start of April 2023, and puts it on a course to be one of the franchise's best-selling titles. SEGA confirmed that they will be seeking to keep the momentum of the game's sales going by continuing its strategy to develop cross-media products, merchandising and a regular game release cadence. The information was revealed on stage during a SEGA/Rovio joint press conference that took place in Helsinki, Finland. The meeting was to formally establish SEGA's acquisition of the Angry Birds mobile studio that took place last month and to give some insight as to what integration and partnership plans are being considered. Things were interesting on that front as well, with a slide and mention that plans were in place to establish cross-media collaborations between a number of SEGA and Rovio IPs. While the company stopped short of outright announcing a Sonic x Angry Birds crossover, you can see from the slide image above that the publisher is undoubtedly looking at ways to further expand fanbases of both brands in similar ways. We'll wait to see what happens on that front. For now, it seems like there's enough celebrating to do with Sonic Frontiers' newly-found title as fastest-selling 3D Sonic game! Congratulations SEGA and Sonic Team. Via Radical (Twitter)

Congratulations Sonic Team! The official website for the company that makes our favourite video games has just passed a really big milestone - one million visitors! To celebrate, the team has added a cute little Eggman clock for your computer. As the website says, it makes quite the racket when the alarm goes off, so be prepared! Sonic Team has also kindly offered a download for the Mini Toy, which you can find for PC and Mac on their website here.

SEGA's April Fools Day video game, The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, has become anything but a joke - with over one million players downloading the title since it launched on Steam on March 31. We feel like that has to be some kind of record, right? Well, if it isn't, it's still super impressive! The news was announced by Sonic Social Media Manager Katie Chrzanowski, who also executive produced the light-hearted detective thriller. Chrzanowski also revealed that the game has been highly rated by those who have played it too, with 'Murder' currently sitting at #61 on highest-rated games on Steam of all time. It's an incredible milestone for a comical spinoff game made entirely by the US-based Sonic social media team. Of course, while the fact the game is free could go some way to explain its explosive popularity, it doesn't discount the huge positive reception from all players who have tried it. It's been warmly embraced by everyone who has taken the time to play it - it's a great little detective story! So it has been a great weekend for the Sonic social team - and all it took was killing off their company's mascot! Congratulations, SEGA!

Sega today announced the release of the 100th issue of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series, making the speedy hedgehog the first videogame character to reach the milestone. First published back in 1993, the strip has traced the adventures of Sonic and the Knothole Village heroes as they take on the evil of Dr. Robotnik and the Robotropolis villains for the past eight years. The 100th issue, which coincides with the 10th Anniversary of Sonic The Hedgehog, will mark the return of the Freedom Fighters, a band of Sonic allies that help him battle Robotnik on his home turf. "The Sonic The Hedgehog comic book is very special to us and we are thrilled to see it reaching Issue #100," said Michael Silberkleit, Chairman and Publisher, Archie Comic Publications. "'Sonic The Hedgehog' is one of our top-selling comic books and we look forward to many issues to come."