Niero's Blog :: Sonic Unleashed: Confirmed! Also, get your lawyer off my neck :: DESTRUCTOID

MrSadistic says:
(# 0) on 03/27/2008 17:43

Release the hounds.

wardrox says:
(# 1) on 03/27/2008 17:45

he signed it with kisses, awwww.

Cheeburga says:
(# 2) on 03/27/2008 17:46

I POSTED EM FIRST. SUE ME BITCHES

coonskin05 says:
(# 3) on 03/27/2008 17:49

Don't fuck with the robot. We are a force to be reckoned with.

power-glove says:
(# 4) on 03/27/2008 17:50

Those pics are all over the internet. What are they hoping to accomplish by doing this?

king3vbo says:
(# 5) on 03/27/2008 17:50

I love you Niero

Niero says:
(# 6) on 03/27/2008 17:51

power-glove: They don't want positive game publicity and would prefer we replace that with bad PR, I guess?

Somebody over there doesn't understand new media. Not surprised.

EternalDeathSlayer says:
(# 7) on 03/27/2008 17:53

Somebody over there doesn't understand good games. Not surprised.

MaxVest says:
(# 8) on 03/27/2008 17:54

Way to not confirm that those pictures are real.

Y0j1mb0 says:
(# 9) on 03/27/2008 17:54

That's some ass backwards PR on their part.

Dexter345 says:
(# 10) on 03/27/2008 17:56

If I see a friend's vagina accidentally without her expressed authorization: awesome.

BluFire says:
(# 11) on 03/27/2008 17:57

Maybe if they hadn't taken their jolly sweet fuckin time, they would have been able to stop this. Once it gets out of the gaf and onto the blogs you might as well give it up.

MaxVest says:
(# 12) on 03/27/2008 17:58

Also, this is a nice example of the disingenuous way copyright attorneys will mix the wishes of their client with various legal words and phrases to make it sound like they're on really solid legal ground.

Oh well. Best to cease and desist, and give some bad PR to Sega. Did they try asking you first? Because they could have done that without confirming that the pictures were real.

NihonTiger90 says:
(# 13) on 03/27/2008 18:01

DAMMIT CHEE, WHAT DID YOU DO NOW >:-(

Geoff says:
(# 14) on 03/27/2008 18:02

remember when sega threatened ytmnd for the sonic cartoon

AngelsDontBurn says:
(# 15) on 03/27/2008 18:04

Wow, that's some amazing PR there. OOF.

Kryptinite says:
(# 16) on 03/27/2008 18:05

LOL. Lawyers make me laugh.

Cheeburga says:
(# 17) on 03/27/2008 18:05

@ Geoff

Haha yeah. That's no good!

BFeld13 says:
(# 18) on 03/27/2008 18:07

But this Sonic could actually be good....

TrailerParkJesus says:
(# 19) on 03/27/2008 18:13

does... does that mean you're banned?

Necros says:
(# 20) on 03/27/2008 18:16

Wow. Way to go, Sega.

Samit Sarkar says:
(# 21) on 03/27/2008 18:19

Sega PR = idiots, internets = serious business

Surf314 says:
(# 22) on 03/27/2008 18:26

Yea seems like this is some back asswards PR move. They just confirmed the screenshots in a very public manner. They can't be stupid enough not to realize that.

liquidninja says:
(# 23) on 03/27/2008 18:27

Wow, Sega is so cool now.

SourGr8pes says:
(# 24) on 03/27/2008 18:32

Instead of asking whether the games legit, you should ask if their PR team and lawyers furiously masturbate to Sonic furry porn?

A New Challenger says:
(# 25) on 03/27/2008 18:35

Bah, at least it was a simple and to the point form letter, no bullshit scare tactics. Unless you left out the PS where he threatened to mongle your cock.

tehuberone says:
(# 26) on 03/27/2008 18:36

WOW WOW WOW those fucktards are stupid.

naia-the-gamer says:
(# 27) on 03/27/2008 18:37

Are other companies being threatened with C&D's too? It's everywhere on the internet!

I don't understand PR companies at all.

tsunamikitsune says:
(# 28) on 03/27/2008 18:38

MAKE BELIEVE REBORN

Ub3rSlug says:
(# 29) on 03/27/2008 18:40

Jesus Christ Niero! What is Destructoid going to do?

Answer: Run to fucking Mexico.

RAB says:
(# 30) on 03/27/2008 18:47

anybody know where i can find those images again?

I want to go ahead and post them EVERYWHAR

starting with cashwh0re.com

then maybe YTMND

again

Sharpless says:
(# 31) on 03/27/2008 18:49

I believe the vagina analogy would've worked. Next time, go for it, friend. I believe in you.

hood_954 says:
(# 32) on 03/27/2008 18:57

i wish i could see my friends vagina accidentally without her expressed authorization. *sigh* never gonna happen.

My theory is that the wave after wave of shitty sonic games was just to get everyone's expectations down for sonic unleashed, which will hopefully bring some respect back to the old icon.

MissHinasaki says:
(# 33) on 03/27/2008 19:03

Maybe Sega is just a little sensitive nowadays because of all the suck. So maybe this is their way of defending their new game that won't suck from all the hate.

Aertyr says:
(# 34) on 03/27/2008 19:08

I just like to take this opportunity to tell all of you disbelievers in vent, TOLD YOU SO.

dawimp523 says:
(# 35) on 03/27/2008 19:10

So that's a real letter?

Redzie says:
(# 36) on 03/27/2008 19:12

they dont want us to cover a sonic that ACTUALLY LOOKS GOOD? man, sega is losing it.

Tamz says:
(# 37) on 03/27/2008 19:12

Who cares - I loved Sonic and SEGA have reduced him to a joke, they can keep him. Also, lawyers suck (goes off to study for law exam)

KamikazeTutor says:
(# 38) on 03/27/2008 19:12

Guess which game will be the first getting a zero on dtoid.

RAB says:
(# 39) on 03/27/2008 19:17

kai has his email adress plz?

Scape says:
(# 40) on 03/27/2008 19:31

Wow this game is ALREADY turning out badly and it hasn't even been announced yet.

WDot says:
(# 41) on 03/27/2008 19:52

From what I understand these were found on a Sega FTP server. So, if they didn't want people to know about these shots, maybe they should not have posted them on the Internet?

Butmac says:
(# 42) on 03/27/2008 20:13

What the hell?? This seems pretty random

aborto thefetus says:
(# 43) on 03/27/2008 20:41

They are a little late. That happened a couple days ago and in internet time that is like, a thousand years.

Cowzilla3 says:
(# 44) on 03/27/2008 21:02

Plus wasn't most of the fallout of them being released good? So they get posotive press on some leaked screens and then demand taht they be covered up so that no one can give them posotive press? It does not make sense!

the GAMEGOBLIN says:
(# 45) on 03/27/2008 21:51

Go Man says:
(# 46) on 03/27/2008 22:15

Mmmk? Why would they want to pull information on a possible great game from a website? Wouldn't it just build the hype behind it? Wouldn't that hype drive sales?
So... Really, they are like shooting themselves in the foot.

But, I liked the Vagina analogy better.

AgentMOO says:
(# 47) on 03/27/2008 22:21

Sonic sez: No one has a right to post info on your crappy game! That's NO GOOD!

Topher Cantler says:
(# 48) on 03/28/2008 00:37

This lawyer has blasphemed the good name of Sega.

Snaileb says:
(# 49) on 03/28/2008 07:22

Well they just threw whatever reguards I had for them out the window.

lucbernard says:
(# 50) on 03/28/2008 10:02

stupid fucking lawyer, it's getting that game promotion

some lawyers and companies are fuckheads

KyleGamgee says:
(# 51) on 03/28/2008 13:15

If the game is good no one will care about these shenanigans. They just don't understand that our greatest hope is to play awesome games.

@Sony: Make an awesome game.

Harukai says:
(# 52) on 03/29/2008 19:15

SEGA owes you for getting us all to look forward to a new sonic game and not just look at them with contempt and a tear in our eye for the past glory we had once enjoyed!

prowlerx083 says:
(# 53) on 03/31/2008 09:14

Wdot was partially right. From what i've read in the forums of the person who first got the shots, it was on the FTP server, but, it was accessed by username and pass that was included in a letter. That was on the server. Supposedly the shots were only for game informer.. *shrugs*

Looks here for some laughs about it http://www.x-cult.org/newsx/fullnews.php?id=164

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Shane -Lifebane- Phelps says:
(# 54) on 05/07/2008 20:10

oo I found a pic of the lawyer!!