BioWare RPG may be ‘Sonic Chronicles’
January 9th, 2008 by Colin Temple 
News that BioWare is developing a role-playing game based on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise surfaced last summer, and today the title may have surfaced.
A recent filing by Sega to the U.S. Patent Office has revealed the title of an upcoming game as ‘Sonic Chronicles’. Whether or not this is in fact the RPG under development by BioWare remains to be seen — Sonic Chronicles could just as easily be another platform game on the drawing board, although the name hopefully suggests otherwise.
BioWare is best known for its popular RPGs. The Sonic series has recently had suffered from mediocrity in the video game world, so this might be a chance for BioWare to do for Sega what it did for LucasArts when Knights of the Old Republic revived the Star Wars franchise in the gaming world.
BioWare’s Sonic RPG is being developed for the Nintendo DS and is expected to be released within the year. The February 2008 issue of Nintendo Power is supposedly scheduled to give the first preview of the game, so we shouldn’t have to wait very long for new details.
Update: The rumor has been confirmed! Nintendo Power has revealed the Sonic RPG in all its glory — we can expect Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood to appear in 2008.
#1 R. Knight
January 10th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Here’s hoping that this is the case. Seeing the Sonic series languish as much as it has recently is disheartening considering I grew up loving the Sonic games on the Genesis.
#2 Colin Temple
January 12th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I hope so. Sonic was a lot of fun on the Genesis, and the Dreamcast Sonic Adventure was pretty good as well. But since then… ugh.