Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games 2010

Sega officially announced today that they are making "Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games" for both the Nintendo Wii and DS, as a sequel to last year's highly successful Beijing Summer Olympics game that also featured both iconic characters (see my post about that game here).

The new game will be released at the end of this year and will tie in with the 2010 Winter Olympics being help in Vancouver, Canada. It will feature winter sports such as skiing, skating and..... wait for it..... my favourite and I suspect yours too..... snowboarding - hoorah!! Support for the Wii's Balance Board will also be provided within the game - presumably for the snowboarding!!! - so it sounds like this will be even better than the first game (which I thought was excellent anyway).

You can watch an official trailer for the new game, showing a short clip of the snowboarding, here.

I am sooooo looking forward to this, the snowboarding will be spectacular fun! If you can't wait until the end of the year for it, you can play some free Sonic the Hedgehog snowboarding games by following these links:

  Sonic Snowboarding Demo

  Sonic Snowboarding Demo 2

  Sonic 3D Snowboarding

Don't forget to visit the MarioSonicGames.com site for even more free Mario and Sonic online games!

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games 2010

Sega officially announced today that they are making "Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games" for both the Nintendo Wii and DS, as a sequel to last year's highly successful Beijing Summer Olympics game that also featured both iconic characters (see my post about that game here).

The new game will be released at the end of this year and will tie in with the 2010 Winter Olympics being help in Vancouver, Canada. It will feature winter sports such as skiing, skating and..... wait for it..... my favourite and I suspect yours too..... snowboarding - hoorah!! Support for the Wii's Balance Board will also be provided within the game - presumably for the snowboarding!!! - so it sounds like this will be even better than the first game (which I thought was excellent anyway).

You can watch an official trailer for the new game, showing a short clip of the snowboarding, here.

I am sooooo looking forward to this, the snowboarding will be spectacular fun! If you can't wait until the end of the year for it, you can play some free Sonic the Hedgehog snowboarding games by following these links:

  Sonic Snowboarding Demo

  Sonic Snowboarding Demo 2

  Sonic 3D Snowboarding

Don't forget to visit the MarioSonicGames.com site for even more free Mario and Sonic online games!

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games

This is the first in a new series of posts in which I'll highlight what's going on in the official Mario and Sonic gaming world...



A truly landmark title, this is the first ever official video game to feature both Mario and Sonic, the one-time rival mascot characters of Nintendo and Sega respectively, together in one game. It is an officially-licenced game for this year's (2008) Summer Olympics being held in Beijing, China, and includes twenty different Olympic events, divided into eight different categories - athletics, gymnastics, shooting, rowing, archery, aquatics, fencing, and table tennis.

In addition to Mario and Sonic, 14 other characters from the two game franchises (7 from each) are available for play: Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Wario, Waluigi and Bowser on Mario's side, and Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Amy Rose, Blaze, Vector and Dr. Robotnik/Eggman on Sonic's side. Miis can also be used if so desired.

"Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games" was developed jointly by Sega and Nintendo, and was released worldwide by Sega on the Nintendo Wii gaming console in November 2007 (which overlapped with the worldwide release of Nintendo's "Super Mario Galaxy" game for the Wii, also released that month - more on that in a future post).

Despite some reviews only giving it slightly above-average scores, not surprisingly the game has proven to be very popular, reportedly selling almost 1 million copies worldwide as at the end of 2007. A Nintendo DS handheld console version is scheduled for release on February 8th of this year. You can visit the official game site here, and you can watch an official trailer for the game here.