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Newly registered trademarks and domains point to Sonic's return in something subtitled Lost World(s). Sega Europe trademarked Sonic: Lost World just yesterday, and locked down domains for both SonicLostWorld.com and SonicLostWorlds.com on Monday, May 13.

The cerulean critter's last major outing, discounting Sonic 4 Episode 2, was Sonic Generations in November 2011. Sega's been teasing this year as a big one for Sonic fans, and you have to go back to the days of Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes for as long a gap between major 3D Sonic games.

We've reached out to Sega, but we suspect we'll find out more about Sonic's next outing, and whether it involves more than one lost world or not, at next month's E3 shindig.

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Resistance and Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games is not working on Wii U titles, according to CEO Ted Price, who took part in a Reddit AMA today.

The Insomniac Games founder said he considers Nintendo's Wii U as more of a current-generation platform, when asked about his thoughts on next-gen consoles. As for Sony and Microsoft's next-generation console plans, Price said he was excited about both.

"When it comes to PS4 I'm excited that they seem to lowering barriers for independent developers," he wrote. "It's cool to see almost weekly announcements from Sony explaining how they're opening things up for indies. And of course I'm very excited to see what Microsoft announces soon."

When asked why the studio's upcoming co-op shooter Fuse hadn't been announced for PC, Price said development on a third platform has been "a bandwidth issue."

"We wanted to make sure that we nailed it on Xbox 360 and PS3 before considering anything else," he said. "New IP, new engine [and] tools, new publishing partner. There was a lot of "new" on the project." When asked again if Insomniac had PC game development in its plans, Price responded, "Maybe...stay tuned."

Finally, when a fan asked whether Insomniac would make another game that ran at 60 frames per second, Price indicated it seemed unlikely.

"I frankly don't know if we'll go back to 60fps," he said. "It has its pluses and minuses. It seems like our fans have been pretty happy with Resistance, the new Ratchets and Fuse at 30fps — we can certainly do more on screen at that frame rate..."

Insomniac Games will release Fuse on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on May 28 in North America.

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With the next Xbox reveal just ten days away, it's as good a time as ever to revisit a report that dates back to November 2012: Microsoft's reported interest in developing a set-top box, or "Xbox TV." Anonymous sources recently told the Wall Street Journal that Microsoft has come as far as producing working prototypes of said media device. Those prototypes reportedly work with Kinect, and are built to provide streaming services for viewers.

The Wall Street Journal also noted that it's unclear whether Microsoft will introduce the as-yet-unannounced device at all. We've contacted Microsoft for comment and will update as we learn more. In the meantime, we recommend that you take a ten-day nap, because the rampant speculation leading up to the Xbox reveal on May 21 probably won't go away.