Confirmed: Sonic & The Black Knight Is For Real

by Chad Lakkis on July 20, 2008 at 2:28 am

Update: Sega has responded to the cover, and has announced that the games official product page will hit sega.com tomorrow.

Several hours ago, a Nintendo Power cover surfaced on the popular gaming forum Neogaf. The scan clearly stated that the issue would reveal information on a new Sega IP titled “Sonic & The Black Knight”, however a few sites began to doubt its legitimacy.

Various Photoshop “investigators” went to work hoping to expose the cover as a fake. I decided to go a different route and check to see if SEGA registered the domain name.

It turns out that they most certainly did register sonicandtheblacknight.com on what appears to be July 2, 2008. Below is the domain information extracted directly from the Japan Whois database.

Registrant :
Sega Corporation
Haneda 1-2-12
Ohta-ku, Tokyo 144-8531
Japan
phone : 03-5275-2789 fax :

Domain Name : SONICANDTHEBLACKKNIGHT.COM

Administrative Contact:
Domain Administrator dommaster@mark-i.jp
Sega Corporation
Haneda 1-2-12
Ohta-ku, Tokyo 144-8531
Japan
phone : 03-5275-2789 fax :

Technical Contact:
Domain Administrator dommaster@mark-i.jp
Mark-i Inc.
3-3 Kojimachi 6F KDX Kojimachi bldg.
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083
Japan
phone : +81.352752789 fax :

Record expires on 2009-07-02 18:28:04+09.
Record created on 2008-07-02 18:28:04.67985+09.
Database last updated on 2008-07-02 18:28:05.02004+09.

Name servers :
NS1.WEBHOSTING.JP
NS3.WEBHOSTING.JP

This record created at Wed Jul 02 18:31:59 JST 2008.

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Tags: godaddy, SEGA, Sonic & The Black Knight

Durffen

That's a very smart move to check for a registered domain name, rather then just jumping to photoshop investigation.

Chad Lakkis

Thanks Durffen. What do you think of the move by Sega?

axlgambino

thank you for figuring out if its real or not. tho i wish it was fake...

Chad Lakkis

No problem Gambino. Not sure I understand the move by Sega here either. I will try to find out more as soon as the work week starts back up again.

axlgambino

what i wanna know is how, in all of the internets, only one kid got the issue. how did noone else get theres and run to the net? i mean that was a reason i thought it was fake. but that dream is killed. maybe itll be good? i mean ive seen stranger things happen in the gaming world but... a sword?

Chad Lakkis

Well, keep in mind the cover still has a slim chance of being fake. What isn't fake is the fact that Sega registered the domain name, and likely intends to use that name for some sort of Sonic related IP.

Bruce Almighty

i really dont think the cover is fake at all. it has those little magazine dots in it all over.

Razzor-Magic

It's...not fake? I thought it was. Then it's an actual game. Oh. My. God.

But I doubt this game will be "OMG AWESOME".

When I see gameplay and the story line, I will determine if this game is Win or Fail.

Lightstream

It's a very smart idea of you to check an adress; I would have been one of the idiots trying to see if the cover was photoshopped.

But on the game, I would rather it be a fake. It's like a really stupid April Fool's joke, because I doubt even SEGA would be able to pull off some sword-weilding Sonic... it just seems too weird; as if trying to mush together the 'Fire Emblem' game series (which also contains a villian knowen as the 'Black Knight') , Legend of Zelda games, and Sonic games, which would end up being... more than likely, an epic failure.
But, of course, displays what SEGA has managed to do with Sonic now-a-days. Alot of these 'Epic Failures', with extra un-used characters and nothing to make a sequal on, so I expect this to be no diffrent.

Ryu the Weredragon

Oh come on, guys. It can't POSSIBLY be as bad as Sonic Next/Sonic 360/Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)/Whatever you want to call it.

Give it a chance.

Metalex

wow,They really are experimenting with sonic's games now.

but actually....When i think of Sonic running at hyper speed swinging a sword it looks cool!

Joe

I totally agree, although this game could very well be a total flop, it could just as easily be an awesome game. running at high speeds, slashing without loosing intense speed, It reminds me of the werehog in sonic unleashed, but instead you keep the speed. Still though this is really a gamble. The skill pt. sys. scares me a little, I didn't like it in Secret Rings, the items and missions fine, but the skill pts? I personally do not mind putting other characters in the game as playable, as long as they are optionally taking a break from Sonic might be fun once in a while. Knuckles uses two swords and Shadow uses a magic Angst powered one. I recieved this issue last Friday and it's not fake. I won't dismiss this game as a bad game untill I play it, seriously, some people over react to EVERYTHING. The werehog gameplay doesn't look bad at all, kinda bad@$$, and thswordplay looks just as interesting. As long as the developers are really learning from their mistakes there won't be a serious problem with this game.

hellohihey

hm. the sword came as a shock, but the graphics look amazing! Besides, i love this old fashioned take! the scenary is beautiful and open, wide and vast for Sonic! Besides, Mario got a water tank, but that can be brushed aside. But the competition:shadow got a GUN. i just hope the sword wont get in the way of his running, it looks effective, and Sonic, as proven many times, obviously has no problem taking out enimies. The sword has a purpose in the story i think, and will be gone in the next game for thise who dont care for it. as a gamer who loves this Hedgehog, i am pleased with Sonic Unleashed and The Secret Rings. The plots are good, characters true to their nature, great cut sceanes and graphics, i cant wait. I know the sword looks odd to some, but it will be easy when Sonic himself justifies its purpose in the game, then it wont seem so out of character.

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