Blue streak.

Sonic the Hedgehog fans now have two more dates for their diaries courtesy of tonight’sGamescomOpening Night Live, with bothSonic Superstarsand Sonic Frontier’s big The Final Horizon content update now sporting release dates.

Sonic Superstars - the vibrantly hued return to Sonic’s side-scrolling platform roots, albeit now with a four-player co-operative twist - arrives on 17th of October for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4, PC, and Switch.

A still from Sonic Frontiers' final update trailer showing Sonic the Hedgehog, Knuckles, Tails, Amy, and Eggman posed against a dramatic red sky.

Before that,Sonic Frontiers- last year’s entertaining, if flawed, “open zone” spin on the hedgehog’s 3D platforming adventures - will get the third and final of threepreviously announcedfree content updates on 28th September.

The Final Horizon, as it’s titled, will introduce new story content, new playable characters - Tails, Knuckles, and Amy have all been hinted at previously, and all feature in today’snew teaser trailer- as well as new challenges.

The Final Horizon follows abirthday themed updatefor Sonic Frontiers in June and asmaller-scale updatethat launched back in March, bringing a juke box, photo mode, and new challenge modes.

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