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The Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing cast keeps growing. Sadly Nights fans won’t be overly joyed . . . because Nights is not actually a playable character in the game.

Rather Nights has become the Flagholder in the game. Sega states:

"We've given NiGHTS a very important role. He starts all the races, and also finishes them too! He also resides over Time Trial, whenever you set a new lap record, you'll have NiGHTS flying along with you celebrating!

I have to admit the main reason he's in was after we saw your heartfelt pleas, especially those of DiGi and TRiPPY, we had to make sure NiGHTS was in and played an important role. After all, we really didn't want them to burn all their collection now. So whilst he's not playable, he very much made it in, and as a result of the huge amount of support for the character that you all showed.”

Sega also addressed whether this means that Nights is out as a playable character for good.

“Does this mean that NiGHTS may not be in future DLC? Well who can say. That's a question I can't answer right now – it all depends on how well the game does ."

In addition to Nights, Sega also revealed more playable characters. They include: Jacky and Akira from Virtua Fighter and Mobo and Rob who make their first appearance in 20 years! You can see both of the aforementioned in the pics below, with Nights in the pic above.