NiGHTS Drifts into Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

On Christmas Eve 2025, a nice present arrived for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds: a brand new character, the one and solely NiGHTS, from Sega’s 1996 Saturn basic, NiGHTS into Desires. A free DLC launch that caught everybody off shock, obtainable on all platforms and a complete sport changer. It’s NiGHTS on the observe as regular, however this time in a automotive that appears prefer it got here from out of your wildest goals, with some unique emotes and a pageant occasion that has everybody shouting “wow.”

NiGHTS seems as a playable character, becoming a member of an already crowded roster of over 50 racers, together with a number of the common Sonic characters in addition to the occasional visitor star corresponding to SpongeBob and Hatsune Miku. In contrast to many kart racers, NiGHTS doesn’t sit in a cockpit; as a substitute, they float above the Dream Sleeper, a smooth, severely high-boost car that exudes the flowing ethereal feelings of their unique sport.

Customization has all the time been a giant facet of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, and NiGHTS suits proper in with all of its quirky character emotes and sounds. Mid-air spins and victory songs straight from the NiGHTS into Desires soundtrack, together with all the bells and whistles you’ve grown accustomed to. The customization menu, a robust software, permits you to interchange and mix these with different DLC packs to create your personal distinctive racer. 5 new tracks from the NiGHTs sequence are additionally added to the Jukebox, permitting you to interchange the background music with legendary songs corresponding to “Desires Desires.”

The NiGHTS Pageant, which runs from December twenty fifth to December twenty eighth, 2025, binds all the things collectively. If you play on-line, you acquire Pageant Factors, which you’ll be able to then spend to amass some fairly unbelievable goodies, corresponding to title banners, sticker units, and three,000 Donpa tickets.