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The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks Why isn’t this future Nintendo 3DS video game, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, included alongside the other 3DS videos Kotaku posted earlier today? Because you’d probably gloss right over this one, missing out on the most intense walking we’ve ever seen from Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog.
Presumed dead until a week ago, not only is NHL 2K11 publishing this year for the Wii, it’ll have one of the stars of the United States’ silver medal-winning Olympic hockey team starring on its cover.
“Shaun White” isn’t just some name on some snowboarding game Shaun White Snowboarding. He’s an actual person! And he’s won Olympic gold. Again.
This happens every two years. Someone looks for an Olympics story, someone thinks up a video game angle, and presto, reconstituted discussion of video games as an Olympic event. This year’s participant: Macleans, the Canadian news magazine.
Maybe you noticed Vancouver 2010, the official title for the Winter Olympics, released last week. But more than VIII Olympiads since the Activision Decathlon and the Epyx Summer Games, the Olympics still have no real toehold in the sports genre.
Hey, in just a couple of months the Olympics are back – in North America, because we can’t go more than eight years without hosting one – and there’ll be a video game accompanying it. Get your screenshots here!
Wired asked four Olympic athletes, doing a photoshoot for Sega’s upcoming 2010 winter games title, if video games had a legitimate place in Olympic competition. At least they were polite in their replies.
Sega continues to milk their licence with the International Olympic Committee, announcing the development of Vancouver 2010, the Official Video Game of the Olympic Winter Games.
