CrossWorlds at Summer Game Fest, I can only think how fun it was to be bad at a kart racer once again. I was always a Nintendo kid, so Mario Kart was my kart racer of choice, but after decades of playing the series I've come to see the proverbial Matrix that defines the angle of your drifts and the exact preparations you need to make to avoid the most inconvenient items.

Head of Sonic Team Takashi Iizuka joins us at IGN Live to talk all about the upcoming kart racer Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, continuing the legacy of Sonic racing games. This time, you’ll be traveling through whimsical worlds in the middle of races while you fiercely compete against friends and foes playing as your favorite characters across the Sonic series.

Not to be outdone by his one-time rival, Sonic’s new racing game takes the fight to Mario with genuinely surprising mechanics we've not seen before in the genre