It’s no secret that the Super Smash Bros. series is one of the most popular fighting game franchises ever. Each new entry in the series has added more and more content bringing together new and old players alike. With Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Nintendo introduced the Fighter Pass, a DLC model that rolls out new characters every few months,
Sakurai
It’s hard to believe that it’s barely even been a week since Sephiroth was revealed to be the ninth DLC character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at The Game Awards. The shocking reveal defied our expectations. More importantly, it assuaged fans’ fears that the last four picks for Fighter Pass #2 would be predictable. Sporting
For the second year in recent memory, Nintendo revealed an upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character at The Game Awards. Following Persona 5’s Joker in 2018, Nintendo revealed Sephiroth, Final Fantasy VII’s main antagonist, as a character at this year’s ceremony. Following the reveal, Nintendo shared that the one-winged angel would be getting a full
If today’s Smash character reveal didn’t impress you with Min Min from ARMS, the game’s new Mii Fighter costumes might just do the trick. The five new costumes revealed for your custom made Miis continue the ongoing trend of including series that have had no ties to Super Smash Bros ever before, including some outlandish ones. If you thought
Every year, there are a number of Super Smash Bros. events in the Smash Summit series. These events are completely grassroots, with competitors being chosen based on placements at major tourneys or through fan voting. There aren’t any major corporate sponsors and Nintendo isn’t present at all, although that second part doesn’t change much across
If you’re not a huge fan of the anime sword fighter flood in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you have quite a bit of company. In a recent column with Japanese magazine Famitsu, Masahiro Sakurai, the director and designer behind the Smash Bros. series, agreed that too many Fire Emblem reps have worked their way into
You would think by now that Nintendo would realize that the Super Smash Bros. community is fed up with Fire Emblem fighters. Surely they can’t announce another one as their big 2020 reveal?! Oh, ye of little faith. And while Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai was having a giggle, you can watch some of the most ardent fans die inside
At the end of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate World Championship 2019 3v3 tournament (man, that is a mouthful), a short clip featuring the game’s Director Masahiro Sakurai informed the masses that the next DLC fighter will be announced on Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct. The video begins with Sakurai standing in front of the venue where