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Kirby Air Riders Looks Like Way More Than Just Another Switch 2 Racing Game
19.8.2025
Masahiro Sakurai's new release is packaged like a Smash Bros. game
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Smash Bros.Director’s New Kirby Racing Game Is Getting A Ridiculously Long Nintendo Direct
18.8.2025
A Kirby Air Riders Direct will detail the Switch 2's next exclusive
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Watch A Beyblade Perform A Smash Bros.-Style Save After Getting Knocked Out Of The Ring
29.7.2025
This week, a video of a Beyblade match came across my Twitter timeline that was so sick, it made me think that maybe the anime from the early 2000s that dramatized the spinning tops wasn’t as exaggerated as I once believed. When you think about it, there’s drama to pitting two spinning tops against...
Fans Think Smash Bros. 64 Is Coming To Switch Online Thanks To Months-Old Blurry Backgrounds
7.7.2025
Almost four years after coming to the service, some of the Nintendo 64's most iconic games are still missing from the Switch Online + Expansion Pack retro library. Now, fans think Super Smash Bros. and more are headed to Switch soon, thanks to some very blurry “teases” in a YouTube video that...
The Switch 2's First New GameCube Game Is A Mario Strikers That's Actually Good
27.6.2025
Just under a month since it launched, the Switch 2 is getting its first new GameCube game as part of its Switch Online + Expansion Pack library. Is it Luigi’s Mansion? Super Mario Sunshine?? Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance??? No, it’s Super Mario Strikers, the inaugural entry in Nintendo’s soccer...
Smash Bros. Pro Dropped By Team After Harassing Female Streamers At Beerio Kart World Cup
24.6.2025
Joseph “Mang0" Marquez, a long-time Smash Bros. player and two-time Evo champion, isn’t getting invited back to the next Beerio Kart World Cup. The esports pro was banned for inappropriate behavior during the livestreamed event and subsequently dropped from his team, Cloud9. “I’m sorry everyone,”...
AI Translation Of Smash Bros. Director's Comments About AI Misses Nuance, Sparks Outrage
23.6.2025
After directing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and then taking a break from game directing to moonlight as a YouTuber and educate fans about game design, Masahiro Sakurai recently revealed he’s returned to development to work on Kirby Air Riders for Switch 2. But this past weekend, a comment Sakurai...
24 New Screenshots Show Why Donkey Kong Bananza Looks Like The Character's Biggest Adventure Yet
18.6.2025
It’s been over 25 years since Donkey Kong’s last 3D adventure, the ill-fated Donkey Kong 64 for Nintendo’s third-gen console. The good news is that Donkey Kong Bananza looks to be avoiding all the pitfalls of its predecessor, embracing the gameplay DNA of Donkey Kong Country mixed with the sandbox...
Smash Bros. Melee Player Loses $2,000 To Rare Pokémon Stadium Glitch
19.5.2025
I can think of a lot of ways to lose a major Smash Bros. Melee tournament with $2,000 on the line, but this might be one of the strangest. Fourth-ranked Kurtis “moky” Pratt was in the Full House 2025 finals, but idly wavedashing in-between level transformations on the Pokémon Stadium stage sent...
MultiVersus Director Calls Out Violent Threats Amid Shutdown Backlash And Roster Rumors
3.2.2025
MultiVersus’ final season update isn’t even live yet and conversation around the game has already broken down dramatically. Since the team behind the multiplayer game announced it would shut down just a year after returning, online discourse has turned ugly. “When there are threats to harm it’s...
Smash Bros.-Inspired MultiVersus Is Shutting Down A Second Time
31.1.2025
Warner Bros. is pulling the plug on another failed multiplayer game. Its Smash Bros.-inspired platform fighter MultiVersus will shut down at the end of season 5, just a year after it’s bumpy return from live-service purgatory. The game will still be available to play offline, but there won’t be...
Smash Bros. Director Wraps Up His YouTuber Career With A Shocking Reveal
22.10.2024
It’s been two and a half years since Masahiro Sakurai, best known for directing Smash Bros. Ultimate and the other entries in Nintendo’s hit platform fighting series, took a break from development to create a YouTube channel dedicated to educating fans and players about how games are made....
New Battle Royale Smash Bros. Hybrid Will Only Get Finished If Fans Like It
11.9.2024
The developers at the small independent studio Odyssey Interactive are doing something “a little crazy” and releasing an early prototype of their next game, Byte Breakers, to see if people like it and if they should even make it.Read more
Report: League Of Legends Maker Canceled A Smash Bros.-Style Fighter Because Of What Happened To MultiVersus
10.7.2024
Riot Games has been trying to turn the popularity of League of Legends into an extended universe of multi-genre games for years now. That plan apparently included prototyping a Super Smash Bros.-style game starring League characters called Pool Party, but according to a new report the project...
MultiVersus: The Kotaku Review
2.7.2024
Sometimes when I sit down to play MultiVersus, it kinda feels like I’m a child reaching into a cookie jar. Part of me knows, if I want to be a good boy, I shouldn’t be doing it. But cookies taste good as hell. That rush of mind-melting bliss when biting into a gooey, sugary treat easily overtakes...
Mortal Kombat Tournament Pop-Off Goes Horribly Wrong
1.7.2024
It was the chair heard around the world, or at least around CEO 2024. Alex ‘’Dyloch’’ Ruiz had just cemented his place in the Mortal Kombat 1 grand finals at the Florida-based fighting game tournament when he decided to get up, grab his chair, and casually fling it into the audience in what might...
Multiversus’ Re-Launch Already Has Its Competitive Fans Upset
28.5.2024
Multiversus, the Warner Bros. crossover platform fighter starring Batman, Shaggy, Arya Stark and more, is out for real this time after going into a year-long hibernation. Now that it’s back and out of beta, the fighting game community is assessing if it could have the longevity of fighting games...
Smash Bros. Director Reveals All Fighters Have About The Same Win Rate
21.5.2024
If you’ve spent any time online looking up information about Nintnedo’s long-running fighting game franchise Super Smash Bros., you’ve likely seen some tier lists claiming certain characters are overpowered or terrible. But a new video from the creator of the series reveals that’s not the case,...
MultiVersus Adds Murderer Jason Voorhees And Matrix Villain Agent Smith
20.5.2024
MultiVersus, WB’s Smash Bros. clone which launches next week, has just added two more popular faces to its odd roster: Agent Smith from The Matrix films and Friday The 13th’s hockey-mask-wearing killer Jason Voorhees. Watch out, Fortnite, there’s a new IP fever dream simulator on the block.Read more
8 Movies We Want To See In Chris Pratt's Proposed Nintendo Cinematic Universe
14.5.2024
Nintendo wants to lean hard into movies. After the astronomical success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, why wouldn’t it? But Mario actor Chris Pratt is dreaming even bigger—He wants the company to think beyond just having an adaptation in theaters every few years and consider an extended film...