September 25th marks the one-year anniversary of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and though I ranked it lower than Mario Kart World in my best games of 2025 list, I’ve honestly found myself playing it far more frequently thanks to its regular online events, numerous in-game challenges, and it just being a fun time. This is the game that made me a regular PlayStation Plus subscriber so you know it’s doing something right.

As such, I was pleasantly surprised to see Sega announce it would be supporting the game with a second year of DLC, especially since Sega had previously admitted CrossWorlds wasn’t meeting sales expectations and publishers are all too eager to kill post-launch support if video games don’t become overnight successes nowadays.

So, to celebrate the game’s anniversary and for my own amusement, I’m going to see if I can predict which characters will be added to CrossWorlds throughout its second year. To be clear, this isn’t a wishlist of characters I want to see. My aim is to try and get inside of Sega executives’ heads and figure out what sort of characters they’d pick as both free and paid DLC.

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