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The Tokyo Olympics Google Doodle is a better sports game than every official Olympics game

Eat it, Sonic and Mario

The team captains from Google's Tokyo Olympics Doodle

The Tokyo Olympic Games starts today, and in classic fashion, Google have made an Olympics-themed Google Doodle to celebrate. But this isn't any old Google Doodle. Oh no. Welcome To The Doodle Champion Island Games is also a video game, and it's legit good. Even better, I think, than any of the actual official Olympics Games tie-in games. Yeah, I went there, Mario and Sonic. Eat my dust. You should give it a go next time you open a new tab today. It has a cracking anime opening from Studio 4C and everything.

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Katharine Castle: Katharine was RPS' editor-in-chief from 2021 to 2024. She first joined the team in 2017 as their hardware editor, and she continues to play pretty much anything she can get her hands on. She's very partial to JRPGs and the fetching of quests, but also loves strategy and turn-based tactics games and will never say no to a good Metroidvania.
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