Next year certainly looks to be big for Sega, with the upcoming and highly anticipated Sonic Heroes launching early next year, you'd have thought the company would have been happy to just lie back, sniff the Weasels and take it easy...

But you'd be wrong!

Sega recently announced -along with its partner in crime THQ, two new Sonic the Hedgehog games for GBA. Entitled Sonic Battle and Sonic Advance 3 (who saw that one coming?) details on the new games are rarer than charisma at a Librarians AGM. It suffices to say that Sega have said that both of the games are set for an early 2004 release in North America, so we can assume an approximate early Summer release over here