Next year’s Olympic Games don’t start until 24 July 2020, but super-keen sports fans can get the action under way now, although with more plumbers, hedgehogs and turtles than we can expect to see competing at Tokyo 2020.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is out of the starting blocks eight months early, with two of gaming’s most famous characters joined by their friends for more than 30 Olympic events on Nintendo’s Switch. It’s a good selection, too. There are the obvious events, such as gymnastics, javelin, 100-metre sprint and swimming, but you can also try your hand at badminton, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing, among others. Up to four players can compete on a single Switch console, or in local-play mode using their own devices. There’s…