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Reviews have been trickling out slowly for Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Here’s a rundown of what critics think about the title thus far:

CVG – 4 / 10
DigitalSpy – 3 / 5
GameSpot – 5 / 10
GamesRadar – 3.5 / 5
GameTrailers – 5.5 / 10
Nintendo Life – 6 / 10
NintendoWorldReport – 7 / 10
Polygon – 6 / 10

Sonic games tend not to sell well in Japan. And so it shouldn’t be shocking to see that the franchise’s latest entry, Sonic Lost World, has completely bombed in its first week. That doesn’t make the game’s performance any less disappointing, though.

Media Create’s latest data revealed that the 3DS version of Sonic Lost World sold 4,919 copies in its first few days of availability in Japan. The Wii U version, however, was nowhere to be seen.

Dengeki has come through with sales of its own courtesy of ASCII Media Works. Despite the fact that Sonic Lost World was the best-selling Wii U game in Japan last week, it managed to sell just 2,076 copies.

Nintendo has opened up the full North American website for Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. You can find it here.

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games will be released on November 15.

Thanks to Tytygh for the tip.

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SEGA’s latest financial results are in. You can find a full breakdown of the company’s results below, which were quite favorable.

– Net sales: 162.21 billion yen ($1.65 billion)
– This is an 18.8 percent jump year-on-year
– Operating income: 12.4 billion yen
– This is a 57.1 percent increase
– Net income up 192.9 percent to 11.35 billion yen
– SEGA Sammy’s video game business saw “generally solid” sales of packaged titles
– Year-over-year increase in the total number of units moved to 3.23 million copies worldwide
– Total War: Rome 2 sold 800,000 copies in the U.S. and Europe since launch
– Sales of digital titles for PC, mobile phones and smartphones “remained favorable”
– Video game sector reported sales of 44.1 billion yen during the fiscal half-year
– This is a 23.5 increase over the same period in 2012
– Operating income: 1.12 billion yen
– In the same period a year ago, the division suffered an operating loss of 780 million yen
– SEGA Sammy has officially completed its $140 million acquisition of the bankrupt Index Corporation

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