I may be three months too late to add on to this but I thought I'd attempt to clear up what I think is one of the biggest confusions of the Sonic series.
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I still don't get why they changed his name back from Robotnik.
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So here it goes, this may be long, boring, give you brainache and cause more confusion but lets give it a shot. I'll try to explain the three incarnations of Robotnik/Eggman in the sonic Universes in the breifest ways possible.
Universe A (the Megadrive games + Sonic 4):
One day Dr Julius Kintobor was trying to make Mobius a better place, Sonic and Kintobor met, stuff happened, Sonic became fast. Days later Kintobor was working on a machine that was creating both the energy rings and the chaos emeralds which were designed to contain the evil on Mobius. Sonic was hungry and found a rotten egg in Kintobor's fridge he gave it to the Dr causing him (Kintobor) to lose concentration and mistype a code into the machine. The machine exploded and Kintobor fused with the rotten egg and an unstable Chaos Emerald and reversed his name to Robotnik.
I don't know how he becomes known as Eggman but my guess is Sonic uses it as a nickname and Robotnik keeps it.
Universe B (the first sonic Anime 'english version'):
Robotnik was always Robotnik and everyone related to him looks like him, including his mother. I'm sure most of you know this one.
Universe C (round about everything else, Sonic X, Sonic Adventure, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic the Comix, ect ect ect):
The most complex one of all.
Robotnik was created the same way as Universe A except he wasn't given the nickname Eggman and Sonic was always fast/blue. In this universe Dr Robotnik is much more evil and sociopathic (this universe, mainly the comics get really dark in places.)
One day Robotniks nephew Dr Snivelly Kintobor (who is also evil) comes up with a plan to kill Robotnik by sabotaging Robotniks Invention that attacks any targeted individual by removing their molecular structure. Snivelly suceeds and the Invention turns on Robotnik but instead of killing him Robotnik is tranported to an alternate Mobius. In this Mobius the alternate Robotnik was severly injured by a previous invention and rebuilt himself as a robot which had the ability to turn any living thing into a Robot by touching them (Robo-Robotnik). Due to this the alternate Mobius was under Robo-Robotniks complete control and the two Robotniks began to create a machine to transfer Robotnik back to his own dimension.
During this a mysterious advanced race appeared, took the two Robotniks and Sonic+Tails (from the original Mobius), turned Robo-Robotnik into a human and Sonic+Tails into robots for an experimental "Flesh vs Machine"
The Robotniks won and Sonic+Tails were transformed back and they were all sent to their original dimensions. Robo-Robotnik (now human) became bored of his position and began to yearn the rivalry he had against Sonic, so he finished the invention both Robotniks were working on and transported himself to the original Mobius. On arriving he found that the original Robotnik had been killed, blaming the death on Sonic he changed his name to Eggman and swore revenge.
Phew finally done. I think I need to go lie down.
Attempting to keep things on topic:
I hear Final Fantasy XIV is in Beta now and is going to be released in Japanese, French, German and English simultaneously. So that might be out even in the UK soon.