Sonic taken a lot of heat in recent years for making so many crappy friends, and Sega appears to be having some fun with that today, teasing the upcoming cast list for the codenamed "Project Needlemouse."

The image you see here is a list of potential characters, but from now until Friday, one of them will get the boot each day (the other images were made when the game was first announced). It's still too many characters me thinks, but let's hope the worst of them get it.

Details below; more at the source.

1: The Details: Each name on the picture above is a potential playable character in Project Needlemouse. However, not all of them are going to make the cut – and each day this week until Friday, we’re going to update this picture with a rejected stamp over those who will not actually be showing up!

2: The Challenge: Answer our trivia questions about oldschool Sonic games! (Genesis era) We’ll post trivia questions each day on a specific part of our SEGA/Sonic sites, and you all have to work together to figure out the right answers and post them there! Each day we’ll challenge you guys to get a certain number of people to post the correct answers – and if you meet that challenge, we’ll remove more names from the picture in a new blog the following day!

*About Bonus Points: If you go above and beyond the expected results, the community will earn a bonus point for that day. Earn at least three bonus points and we’ll give you all something special this Friday!

3: The Schedule:

* Monday: SEGA Blogs
* Tuesday: SEGA/Sonic Facebook
* Wednesday: Official Sonic Forum
* Thursday: SEGA Twitter

chautemoc via blogs.sega.com »