Sonic Battle (ソニック バトル, Sonikku Batoru) is a fighting game developed by Sonic Team and Sega. It is published by Sega and THQ for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. It is the second fighting game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the first game being Sonic the Fighters. It was released in Japan on December 4, 2003 and North America on January 5, 2004. It was also the first Sonic game in Japan to feature swearing (the dialogue was altered when this game hit North American markets).