Shadow's 2005 magazine trail stretches across early first looks, interviews, posters, previews, cover stories, advertisements, and release-period reviews. This archive records what can actually be traced and leaves unresolved issue data unresolved.
Surviving Sonic archives make it possible to identify several substantial magazine sets even when the original publications are difficult to obtain. Secrets of Sonic Team preserved an early scan index; Sonic Stadium later cataloged individual pages; Sonic HQ preserved contemporary reporting about the Nintendo Official Magazine feature.
Shadorux catalogs those records without presenting externally hosted scans as its own preservation copies. Issue numbers, dates, contributors, page sets, and unresolved metadata stay visible because provenance is part of the artifact.
2005 · issue 191
Secrets of Sonic Team identifies a two-page first look contributed by Blaze Hedgehog, with five images and a sidebar covering other Sonic spin-offs. The issue number is established by the surviving index.
Issue-level provenance established
May 2005
A surviving scanner provenance record identifies issue 159 and describes a Shadow preview with a Takashi Iizuka interview. Secrets of Sonic Team independently records the GamesMaster preview, interview, Sonic retrospective material, and timeline.
Issue and month established
May 2005
This is one of the strongest surviving magazine sets. The indexed material includes the cover, contents, a two-part poster, feature pages, screenshots, weapon and vehicle information, destructible-environment discussion, and a Takashi Iizuka interview. Sonic Stadium preserves individually cataloged pages and credits Murray Thomson; the older Secrets of Sonic Team index records the contributor as Murray Thompson.
Large page set with strong provenance
2005 · issue unresolved
Secrets of Sonic Team describes a front-page story and four-page preview with weapon and machinery details. Sonic Stadium independently preserves records for a two-page preview and cover-story material. The exact issue number was not established in the research pass and should not be guessed.
Exact issue still unresolved
2005 · issue unresolved
The Secrets of Sonic Team index records a single clipping with an unknown contributor. The current evidence does not establish its exact issue or page metadata.
Metadata incomplete
2005 · issue unresolved
Secrets of Sonic Team credits Fuzzball Fox for the surviving review record and notes a 7/10 score with complaints involving the camera and death pits. It belongs to the release/review record rather than the pre-release development record.
Issue still unresolved
The spring magazine cycle captures the game while its public identity was still being formed. Period reporting did not discuss only guns: it also documented vehicles, destructible environments, familiar Sonic attacks, screenshots, posters, and direct comments from Takashi Iizuka. These pages preserve what readers were being told before the finished game reached stores.
Sonic Stadium catalogs three separate pages of US magazine advertising from 2005. The original publication source for the set remains unidentified.
A separate UK magazine advert survives in Sonic Stadium's archive and should remain distinct from the US three-page campaign.
Secrets of Sonic Team also indexed a print advertisement and credited Wario64. More work is needed before assuming it is identical to any specific Sonic Stadium record.
The archive gets stronger by refusing to manufacture missing metadata. These are the current print-research targets.
Read issue information directly from the surviving scan or publication record.
Identify the clipping's publication metadata and contributor provenance if possible.
Resolve the issue and page information for the documented 7/10 review.
Identify which magazines carried each of the three cataloged US advertisement pages.