Federation Focus: Offshore Sailing Quandary, Sport Climbing Election 04/28/21
Sailing Weighs Offshore Boats for Paris 2024
World Sailing faces a June 8 decision deadline by the IOC on whether double-handed offshore event will be contested in the 2024 Olympics.
The international federation had decided in 2018 on a 10-event program for Paris that includes the offshore event. But the IOC has since raised questions, concerned about the complexity of TV coverage and logistical concerns.
The IOC has asked the federation to come up with an alternative to consider that would keep the number of sailing medal events at 10.
Union Cycliste Internationale and Zwift announced its partnership to participate in the IOC’s Olympic Virtual Series.
WBSC, KONAMI partner to deliver baseball event at first-ever Olympic Virtual Series 04/26/21
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and Konami Digital Entertainment today held a press conference announcing an official partnership to deliver the baseball event at the inaugural Olympic Virtual Series (OVS), with KONAMI’s eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 to serve as the official OVS baseball event platform.
The WBSC, with the sport of baseball, last week was appointed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to be among the sports/international federations of the inaugural OVS, the IOC’s first-ever Olympic-licensed virtual competition.
WBSC President Riccardo Fraccari said: “Congratulations to the IOC and President Thomas Bach on launching this pinnacle virtual sports competition. It’s a great honor for baseball and the WBSC to be a part of this innovative and exciting new IOC product, and that’s why it was important for WBSC to partner with one of the
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14/04/21
Konami has announced a brand new game today and that game is GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon, a 2D action title. The game is coming to Steam Early Access on May 13th, and will eventually makes it way to the Nintendo Switch in 2022. The early access price is $24.99 / €24.99 / £19.99. GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon is essentially a resurrection of the classic Famicom title GetsuFumaDen which released in 1987.
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GetsuFuMaden is being developed by GuruGuru and published by Konami. Shin Murato, Producer of GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon at Konami Digital Entertainment Co. said:
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Having an Early Access period gives us a great opportunity to build a community for GetsuFumaDen and ensure the game is as strong as possible. Throughout this period, we want to utilise user feedback and foster an active discussion to increase the quality of the game. We will work very closely with our community to help bring this game to life through content review, bug fixe
Round Up: All The Games From The Nintendo Indie World Showcase - April 2021
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Yesterday, we were treated to a brand new Nintendo Indie World Showcase, giving us a glimpse at some of the brightest indie games set to launch on Switch.
More than 20 games were shown in what felt like a particularly strong presentation all around. If you missed it, or just want to keep track of everything that was announced, we ve got you covered below.
Nintendo Indie World Showcase April 2021 - The Whole Presentation
Feel free to watch the full show above if you missed it the first time around. Once you re all caught up, let s take a closer, more detailed look at each game: