[STEAM] The Olympics has moved on from Mario and Sonic

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20 years, Nintendo and ***** have released Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games to coincide with the international sporting event. But now,

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, that tradition is at an end. In 2020, the IOC made the decision to not renew the game’s licensing deal, ending a run of games that’s covered most Summer and Winter Olympic games since 2007.

“Basically the IOC wanted to bring [the licensing] back to themselves internally and look at other partners so they would get more money,” Lee Cocker, a developer who worked on the Mario & Sonic franchise, told Eurogamer.

Strangely though, those “other partners” are

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— products that are not currently known for their money-making possibilities. To...

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