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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,
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is adding two new characters from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – Pyra and Mythra – but many players are wondering what’s the deal with another character from the game, Pneuma, mentioned by Sakurai. We’re here to help you remember who Pneuma is if you played the game at launch in 2017 and
There’s only a few minutes left until the February 2021 Nintendo Direct, where we will get “announcements” regarding Super Smash Bros Ultimate and possibly a new DLC character, this is the last time to place your bets and share your predictions, so let me tell why I believe Adol Christin from Nihon Falcom‘s Ys series
Everyone is awaiting the Nintendo Direct February 2021 later today and the same can be said for Masahiro Sakurai. The director of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate regularly shares some handmade screenshots of the game on Twitter, using developer-only camera angles. However, Masahiro Sakurai also regularly shares some of his thoughts via tweets. Now, Masahiro Sakurai
Masahiro Sakurai – director of Super Smash Bros Ultimate (Switch) – recently spoke on Cyberpunk 2077 (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X) and CD Projekt Red in his usual biweekly column in Famitsu magazine. While Super Smash Bros Ultimate players are currently enjoying Sephiroth, Sakurai is spending some time on Cyberpunk 2077. In
Yesterday, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate producer Masahiro Sakurai offered a deep dive into the game’s latest DLC character, Final Fantasy VII antagonist, Sephiroth. During the reveal, he showed off the character’s new moves, music, stage and release date. The official release date for the character, his nine new tracks, new stage and four new Mii
The presentation of Sephiroth in Super Smash Bros Ultimate happened this December 17, and with it, the reveal for new Mii costumes – Geno is coming to Super Smash Bros Ultimate, not as a real character, but as a Mii Costume. The reveal also included Tifa, Barret, and a Chocobo cap. This is a new
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
For some people, the confirmation of new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Amiibo is almost as exciting as the reveal of new fighters. Over the weekend, we received a deep dive from the game’s director, Masahiro Sakurai, into the latest new character, Minecraft Steve. Alongside the look at Steve, we were treated to what many fans
As more characters have been added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate over time, Nintendo has continually updated the title’s expansive key art which features all of the fighters in the game. Following the announcement that Minecraft Steve would be the next character added to Ultimate, the key art has once again been updated, but maybe not for
It’s been a while since we had any news on the next addition to the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster. The second Fighter Pass was announced back in January, however, since then we’ve only received news of one additional fighter. The first character from the second Fighter Pass was revealed to be from ARMS back in
It’s been a relatively busy day for Nintendo news. The company’s holiday lineup just got a little substance with the announcement that a port of Pikmin 3 from the Wii U is heading to the Switch in October. Alongside that, they announced that in the latest Super Smash Bros. Ultimate update (version 8.1.0) players would gain
A week ago today, Super Smash Bros. series director, Masahiro Sakurai brought us into his home to reveal the next DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Min Min from the 2017 cult classic fighting game, ARMS. In that presentation, it was confirmed that Min Min would become the 76th fighter to join the roster today, June 29 in
Nintendo announced today Min Min is the Arms character joining Super Smash Bros Ultimate. For the occasion, a pretty cool introduction animated trailer was revealed, with Captain Falcon and Kirby eating at the ramen restaurant where Min Min works. Later on, a full artwork with even more Super Smash Bros Ultimate characters eating together was
Square Enix and Nintendo announced the six protagonists of Trials of Mana will be added to Super Smash Bros Ultimate‘s Spirit Board for a time limited event. Players of Smash Ultimate will be able to grab spirits of Riesz and Hawkeye, Duran and Angela, Charlotte and Kevin. The event will go from April 24 to April
The new Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been expectedly impacting the production of the Fighter Pass Vol 2 DLC coming to Super Smash Bros Ultimate. Director Masahiro Sakurai revealed in this week’s Famitsu magazine, in his usual bi-weekly column, that he was supposed to meet with the publisher of one of the characters included in Fighter Pass
Masahiro Sakurai confirmed the six DLC fighters in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighters Pass Vol. 2 will be the last ones. As you already know, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Director Masahiro Sakurai has a bi-weekly column feature in Famitsu Magazine. He shares many of his thoughts through this column, and it’s rarely actually about
While Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has finally allowed for many much-requested fighters such as Banjo & Kazooie, Ridley, and King K. Rool to finally join the fray, there are still quite a few others that have still been left out in the cold. One such character is that of Sora from Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts series. Despite
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
It seems as though one of the most popular game developers of today will be making a cameo appearance of sorts in Team Ninja’s upcoming action sequel Nioh 2 later this year. As shared by user @HDKrin on Twitter, the latest developer stream for Nioh 2 announced the results of the character creation contest that had been
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
During the reveal video of Byleth as the newest character joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Game Director Masahiro Sakurai threw a few jabs at the Fire Emblem series. Here are all the funny things Sakurai said about the long-running tactical RPG series, be it making fun of its weird names or how it surprisingly wasn’t
Director Masahiro Sakurai and Nintendo had previously announced that more DLC characters would be coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate after work on the initial Fighters Pass wrapped up. As of today, we now have a better idea of just how that future content will roll out. Much as we’ve become accustomed to already, the next
Nintendo announced earlier today that it will unveil the final Fighter’s Pass character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate later this week in a new Direct hosted by director Masahiro Sakurai. While for now, leaks and rumors as to who this new addition to the roster could be haven’t really come about, the game’s community is now
After months of lingering questions from those in the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate community, Nintendo and the game’s director Masahiro Sakurai are finally ready to reveal the fifth DLC fighter joining the roster. Nintendo announced today that a new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct will take place later this week on Thursday, January 16, at 9am EST/6am
Just like every two weeks or so, this week’s Famitsu magazine (January 23, 2020 issue) included a column written by Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Director Masahiro Sakurai. In it, Sakurai highly praised 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, the latest game by Atlus and Vanillaware, directed and written by George Kamitani. In the column, Masahiro Sakurai started
With The Game Awards taking place tomorrow night, many are expecting that Nintendo will come prepared to reveal who the fifth fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s Fighter’s Pass add-on is set to be. Thanks to some recent activity on one of Nintendo’s official Smash outlets, it seems as though this possibility has now become all the more
This week’s usual leaks, most likely from this week’s Famitsu magazine, included comments from Masahiro Sakurai on Death Stranding. Masahiro Sakurai praised Hideo Kojima’s latest game, mentioning how there are very few games who manage to be this original and yet this interesting. Sakura added that Death Stranding definitely isn’t for everyone, but that he
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate just added Terry Bogard today, as a video with Masahiro Sakurai breaking down the character was published. The video most notably revealed Terry’s stage and how it features many iconic SNK characters in its background. However, Fatal Fury‘s Mai Shiranui didn’t make the cut. Masahiro Sakurai explained that it was “impossible”