The long-running Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series is officially dead, according to a former developer of the sports series that accompanied each event. The popular sports series has been a staple of each Summer Olympics since 2007, with Sega and Nintendo collaborating to pit their flagship mascots against one another in a variety of different sporting events. Sega and Nintendo also teamed up for two games based on the Winter Olympics, celebrating the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and 2014's event in Sochi. Now, the series is reportedly dead in the water.
While Mario and Sonic have long stood as some of gaming's biggest rivals, SEGA's transition to solely software development in the early 2000s has led to plenty of crossovers. Sonic has become a mainstay of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros series, appearing in each new game in the franchise since the Wii's Super Smash Bros Brawl. 2013's Sonic Lost World also received a Mario-themed DLC, with a special zone based on the Yoshi's Island games. However, one of the most well-known partnerships between the plumber and hedgehog is now reportedly finished.
The long-standing friendly rivalry between Mario and Sonic finally comes to...
