We've known for some time that specialists are hard at work on a title, what we didn't know until today is that it might be called 'Sonic Chronicles'.

News of this potential title emerges from a new Patent office filing by Sega, although the lack of any obvious BioWare connection means that this could just be the name of Sega's next Sonic adventure, rather than the name of the new RPG in question.

'Surfer Girl', a blogger who has in the past revealed a number of useful gaming tips, refers to the new game as Sonic Chronicles, too, hence the potential link, and we're told that this will be finest Sonic game in years. Surfer Girl also notes that have registered 'The Dark Brotherhood' too, which could be the new Sega project coming from according to gossip.

More on all this soon.

By Luke Guttridge