Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator and former Sonic Team president Yuji Naka has suddenly released an update for an obscure eight-year-old mobile game, in news that feels a bit like a return to normality after some of the developer's more recent headlines.
While Naka has racked up credits on loads of iconic games over time, from the original Sonic the Hedgehog to Phantasy Star, as spotted by Time Extension, the game he's turned his attention to once more is Pirates of Coin, which was developed by PROPE – the studio he founded in 2006 after leaving Sega. You'd be forgiven for not recognizing it – it's a mobile, pirate-themed coin-pusher game available on iOS and Android, which sees the coins you earn transform into pirates who'll then send themselves flying at incoming enemies.
