sonic team
The in-house Sega-owned development team for video games of the Sonic the Hedgehog series since the Genesis/Mega Drive era. They are responsible for the development processes for the Sonic Adventure games, Sonic Heroes, Shadow The Hedgehog, Sonic 2006, Sonic Unleashed, etc. Also worked on the handheld games on the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS namely Sonic Advance and Rush games. The team has also developed other Sega games like Samba de Amigo, Billy Hatcher, and Chu Chu Rocket respectively. Formerly lead by Yuji Naka, now under the leadership of Takashi Iizuka.