{"id":44223,"date":"2025-02-14T11:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T02:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=44223"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T02:49:24","slug":"initial-d-arcade-developers-involved-in-segas-new-sonic-racing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/initial-d-arcade-developers-involved-in-segas-new-sonic-racing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial D arcade developers involved in Sega\u2019s new Sonic racing game\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The development team of the Initial D arcade racing game series is involved in the upcoming <strong>Sonic Racing Crosswords<\/strong>. This was revealed through the Initial D arcade series\u2019 official X account on February 13.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u5b9f\u306f&#8230;<br>\u982d\u6587\u5b57DAC\u30c1\u30fc\u30e0\u3082\u958b\u767a\u306b\u95a2\u308f\u3063\u3066\u3044\u308b\u65b0\u4f5c\u30ec\u30fc\u30b9\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\uff01<br>\u671f\u5f85\u3092\u88cf\u5207\u3089\u306a\u3044\u65b0\u305f\u306a\u30ec\u30fc\u30b9\u30d0\u30c8\u30eb\u3092\u305c\u3072\u3054\u4f53\u9a13\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3002<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0CW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30bd\u30cb\u30c3\u30af\u30ec\u30fc\u30b7\u30f3\u30b0CW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jj8q2QfK9X\">https:\/\/t.co\/Jj8q2QfK9X<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u982d\u6587\u5b57DAC\u516c\u5f0f (@initialD_AS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/initialD_AS\/status\/1889918039514292268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation: <\/strong>Did you know there\u2019s a new racing game that the Initial D arcade team was involved in developing? These fresh battles will not betray your expectations, so be sure to check the game out!\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonic Racing CrossWorlds is the upcoming sequel to 2019\u2019s Team Sonic Racing. Up until recently, all we knew was that it was being developed by an \u201celite racing game team,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SEGA_OFFICIAL\/status\/1867435564712198184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as Sega described it<\/a>. But now that the cat\u2019s out of the bag, fans are confident that we will be getting a very legitimate racing experience in CrossWorlds thanks to the Initial D devs being on board.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sonic Racing CrossWorlds <\/strong>will be releasing on PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4\/PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S in 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/sonic-racing-crossworlds-opens-applications-for-ps5-closed-network-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Applications for the closed beta test<\/a> are currently open.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of the Initial D arcade game series suddenly revealed their involvement in Sega&#8217;s Sonic Racing Crosswords on February 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":44227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-44223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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