Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games heads to Wii U, 3DS

2 Jun 2015

Steve Wright

Nintendo used its micro Nintendo Direct yesterday to confirm Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on both Wii U and 3DS.

The long-standing Olympic team-up will feature characters from both the Mario and Sonic franchies.

Featured sports include rugby, exclusive to Wii U, and golf exclusive to 3DS — and, it should be noted, making its reappearance in the Olympics after 112 years.

Other sports include football, gymnastics, table tennis and track events.

The 2016 Summer Olympics take place in August 2016.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.