{"id":5883,"date":"2022-06-30T09:12:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T09:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/we-need-more-gaming-partnerships-like-mario-rabbids\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T09:12:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T09:12:54","slug":"we-need-more-gaming-partnerships-like-mario-rabbids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/thegamer-originals\/we-need-more-gaming-partnerships-like-mario-rabbids\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need More Gaming Partnerships Like Mario + Rabbids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/we-need-more-gaming-partnerships-like-mario-rabbids_62bd69160e59e-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/we-need-more-gaming-partnerships-like-mario-rabbids_62bd69160e59e-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/we-need-more-gaming-partnerships-like-mario-rabbids_62bd69160e59e-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/mario-rabbids-kingdom-battle\/\">Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope&#8217;s<\/a> release date was revealed at yesterday&#8217;s Nintendo Direct, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/mario-rabbids-sparks-of-hope-coming-out-october\/\">having previously leaked ahead of the stream<\/a>. That&#8217;s in-keeping with the game&#8217;s initial reveal last year, which also leaked a few hours ahead of time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/mario-rabbids-launch-date-nintendo-direct-mini\/\">The game arrives in October<\/a>, and I&#8217;m sure it will be fine, if the last game is anything to go by. It has always struck me as a strange idea. It&#8217;s a team up between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/nintendo\/\">Nintendo<\/a> and Ubisoft, using Nintendo&#8217;s best loved mascot and some fluff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/ubisoft\/\">Ubisoft<\/a> found down the sofa, in a completely new genre for both series, with gameplay that doesn&#8217;t really suit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/tag\/mario\/\">Mario<\/a> or Rabbids. And yet it all works. Sparks of Hope will also work, probably. Or maybe it won&#8217;t. That&#8217;s not really important here. What&#8217;s important is that we need more games like it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/gaming-partnerships-mario-rabbids\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope&#8217;s release date was revealed at yesterday&#8217;s Nintendo Direct, having previously leaked ahead of the stream. That&#8217;s in-keeping with the game&#8217;s initial reveal last year, which also leaked a few hours ahead of time. The game arrives in October, and I&#8217;m sure it will be fine, if the last game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thegamer-originals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5885,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions\/5885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}