{"id":949531,"date":"2025-12-31T20:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/star-overdrive-announcement-nintendo-direct"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:57:20","slug":"star-overdrive-is-a-rad-looking-sci-fi-hoverboard-game-announced-at-the-nintendo-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/star-overdrive-is-a-rad-looking-sci-fi-hoverboard-game-announced-at-the-nintendo-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Overdrive is a rad-looking sci-fi hoverboard game, announced at the Nintendo Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/star-overdrive-is-a-rad-looking-sci-fi-hoverboard-game-announced-at-the-nintendo-direct.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Overdrive<\/strong> &#8211; a Sci-fi hoverboard game &#8211; has just been announced during the Nintendo Direct. It&#8217;s set to launch in 2025 for the Nintendo Switch as a timed-exclusive.\n<\/p>\n<p>The game is a pretty rad looking third person game with a nice unique art style to it. You can customise your hoverboard and soar across the world at pretty fast speeds, all adding to what seems to be a pretty slick package. You can watch the trailer for Star Overdrive yourself below.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word quite yet on what other platform it&#8217;ll be coming to once the timed exclusivity is over, or even who the developers behind the game are! But, for now, it&#8217;s a game we can look forward to next year &#8211; here&#8217;s hoping we get some more glimpses at it in the near future.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/star-overdrive-announcement-nintendo-direct\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/star-overdrive-announcement-nintendo-direct\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Overdrive &#8211; a Sci-fi hoverboard game &#8211; has just been announced during the Nintendo Direct. It&#8217;s set to launch in 2025 for the Nintendo Switch as a timed-exclusive. The game is a pretty rad looking third person game with a nice unique art style to it. You can customise your hoverboard and soar across the world at pretty fast speeds, all adding to what seems to be a pretty slick package. You can watch the trailer for Star Overdrive yourself below. There&#8217;s no word quite yet on what other platform it&#8217;ll be coming to once the timed exclusivity is over, or even who the developers behind the game are! But, for now, it&#8217;s a game we can look forward to next year &#8211; here&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/star-overdrive-is-a-rad-looking-sci-fi-hoverboard-game-announced-at-the-nintendo-direct\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":949532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[259,1284,21,13875],"class_list":["post-949531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action-adventure","tag-nintendo-direct","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-star-overdrive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Star Overdrive is a rad-looking sci-fi hoverboard game, announced at the Nintendo Direct | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Star Overdrive - a Sci-fi hoverboard game - has just been announced during the Nintendo Direct. 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