The Chaotix Casefiles Is a Sonic the Hedgehog Audio Drama Coming to Podcast Services Next Week

Sonic the Hedgehog has video games, movies, shows, ocular novels, comic books, and more, and now, the Sega mascot is moving successful a caller absorption with an audio play series.

The steadfast down the classical video crippled bid announced the fictional communicative podcast successful collaboration with podcast media institution Realm, promising to archer stories featuring Vector the Crocodile, Espio the Chameleon, and Charmy the Bee. Dubbed Sonic the Hedgehog Presents: The Chaotix Casefiles, the amusement is acceptable to premiere everyplace podcasts are available, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, adjacent week, January 27.

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“For the archetypal time, the Sonic beingness comes to beingness successful audio, arsenic Vector the Crocodile, Espio the Chameleon, and Charmy Bee of the Chaotix Detective Agency are tasked with solving their biggest enigma yet,” a summary for the Sonic audio play bid says. “Styled aft classical detective vigor dramas, the bid blends noir-inspired intrigue with Sonic’s signature energy, creating a caller mode for fans to acquisition the satellite of Sonic.”

The Sonic the Hedgehog video crippled voicecast is returning for the action- and saxophone-packed audio drama, with Roger Craig Smith backmost arsenic Sonic, Keith Silverstein arsenic Vector, Matthew Mercer arsenic Espio, and Colleen O’Shaughnessey arsenic Charmy. Sega says that, successful summation to its vibrant detectives, “other fan-favorites” volition marque peculiar appearances passim The Chaotix Casefiles' debut season. The archetypal trailer teases a cameo from Doctor Robotnik (a.k.a. Eggman), and it sounds similar dependable histrion Mike Pollock providing his chops, too.

A Sonic audio play isn’t precisely Sonic Adventure 3, but Sega inactive brought successful immoderate notable endowment to bring it to life. Ian Jones-Quartey (OK K.O! Let’s Be Heroes, Steven Universe) is the show’s director, with Dan Jolley (Dying Light, DC Heroes United) credited arsenic pb writer, and Sonic veterans Ian Flynn and Evan Stanley besides attached arsenic writers. Grammy and Tony award-winning composer Charlie Rosen created The Chaotix Casefiles’ music. Realm’s Fred Greenhalgh and Dan Brunelle handled dependable plan and post-production.

Sonic the Hedgehog fans person had plentifulness to tally done the past fewer years. Highlights successful the video crippled satellite see dense hitters similar Sonic Frontiers successful 2022, Sonic x Shadow Generations successful 2024, and Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds successful 2025, with offshoots similar The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog helping capable the gaps. In the movie world, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 sped into theaters successful precocious 2024, with a 4th mainline movie expected to premiere successful March 2027.

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