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That Time Space Ghost Narrated A Cartoon Network-Themed Smash Bros Clone
19.4.2024
This next sentence might make you feel very old and I’m sorry: Earlier this week, Cartoon Network’s first original show, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, turned 30 years old. And while many have spent the week celebrating the strange series, its best bits, and funniest episodes, I want to take a moment...
This Weekend Is Your Last Chance To Play 3DS And Wii U Games Online
5.4.2024
We are gathered here today to bid one final farewell to the 3DS and Wii U’s online services, which will get laid to rest on April 8. 13 years of life isn’t long, but in those years, the multiplayer functionality for these two Nintendo devices has served us well, connecting players the world over...
Multiversus, WB's Smash Clone, Is Coming Back This Spring
11.3.2024
After going away for almost a full year in 2023, Multiversus, the free-to-play Warner Bros. Super Smash Bros-esque brawler, is coming back. Developer Player First Games has released a new developer diary video confirming the game will relaunch on May 28.Read more
Seven Years Ago, Nintendo’s Risky Gamble Paid Off Handsomely
4.3.2024
Seven years ago, Nintendo took its biggest gamble yet and released the Nintendo Switch, a forward-thinking and bold home console that dared to be a handheld first and foremost. It’s hard to argue with the results of that bet all this time later, especially seeing as how the Switch has continued...
The State Of The Nintendo Switch In 2023
27.12.2023
The Switch is going out with a bang. Ahead of the likely reveal of the Nintendo handheld hybrid’s successor next year, the aging hardware continued receiving an amazing slate of new games in 2023, including The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, one of the best entries to date in...
The Best Nintendo Switch Black Friday Deals
20.11.2023
Nintendo has never dropped the price of its six-year old Switch, and it’s not about to start now. But the company is still bundling Mario Kart 8 free with its consoles for Black Friday 2023, and discounting a bunch of other great games. The Switch 2 might be just around the corner, but there’s...
Nintendo's New Super Smash Bros. Ultimate OLED Switch Bundle Is A Great Holiday Deal
6.11.2023
Just in time for Black Friday budgeting, Nintendo announced a Switch bundle launching on November 19 that’ll package the OLED model of the handheld-console hybrid with the crossover fighter Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.Read more
Super Smash Bros. Got YouTuber Ludwig In Trouble With Nintendo
26.10.2023
Gaming YouTuber Ludwig Ahgren, widely known as Ludwig, has claimed that Nintendo came for his throat with a “baby cease-and-desist” letter a few months ago. The move was prompted by modifications he wanted to make to the company’s supremely popular crossover fighter Super Smash Bros. Melee for...
New Nintendo Rules Cause Massive Smash Bros. Fan Freakout
25.10.2023
Nintendo’s relationship with the grassroots competitive scene around its Super Smash Bros. games has never been great, But today it may have hit an all-time low. Fans of the company’s enormously popular fighting game franchise are collectively freaking out about a new set of tournament guidelines...
Young Super Smash Bros. Melee Player Takes Selfie Mid-Match, Owns
25.8.2023
Every now and then I get a reminder that the kids are alright. Sure, they’re gonna be facing some of the worst economic hardships in memory after AI replaces our jobs and capitalism finishes ruining everything else, but apparently they’ll be straight-up vibing as the world burns. The latest...
Nickelodeon's Smash Bros-Like Gets Sequel With New Characters, Story Mode
27.7.2023
SpongeBob SquarePants, Garfield, and April O’Neil are ready to fight each other and other famous cartoon characters once more in the newly announced sequel, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2. It launches in late 2023. Read more
The West's First Fire Emblem Comes To Nintendo Switch Online
16.6.2023
Nintendo has announced Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade is coming to Nintendo Switch Online, and a lot of fans are probably feeling nostalgic about it because it was the first game in the tactical fantasy series to make its way to the west.Read more
Smash Bros. Pro Trash Talks 15-Year-Old, Gets Roasted By Kid's Mom
16.5.2023
At a recent video game competition in Texas, a pro Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player trash-talked a 15-year-old after winning an important match against the young player. The Smash community’s reaction was mostly negative, and things only got worse for the trash-talking pro when the kid’s mom...
Surprising Fans, WB's Smash Bros.-Like Shutters Until 2024 With No Refunds
27.3.2023
Today, Warner Bros. Games and Player First announced that the MultiVersus open beta will be shutting down in 90 days. The publisher and devs promise the game will return in “early 2024.” In the meantime, players will be unable to play online, and no new updates will be released. And in bad news...
Major Super Smash Bros. Tournament Leaves Attendees Ill
15.3.2023
A major Super Smash Bros. tournament has come and gone, but not without some drama. After participating in the tournament, a bunch of Melee and Ultimate players found themselves “blowing chunks” due to a stomach bug.Read more
Long-Hated Steve From Minecraft Is Being Banned In Competitive Smash Bros.
3.3.2023
Steve from Minecraft was added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in October of 2020. In the years since, sentiment around the character has gotten worse and worse due to accusations that the character is broken and overpowered. Now, a recent discovery around a competitively advantageous glitch...
In 1999 Nintendo Had A Real-Life Wrestling Match Starring Mario And Pikachu
15.2.2023
Back in 1999, around the time of the release of the original Super Smash Bros. on the N64, Nintendo had a big idea. To help promote the game they would go to Vegas, set up a wrestling ring, get a bunch of actors to wear Nintendo character costumes and have them go at it.Read more
Rihanna's Halftime Show Looked Like A Smash Bros. Stage
13.2.2023
Look, you probably saw the show and noticed it straight anyway regardless, but just in case you didn’t, here are a bunch of people all making the same joke: that Rihanna’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl tonight looked just like a Smash Bros. stage.Read more
Smash Bros. Pro Got Hurt Jumping Out Of Illegal Taxi On Way To Tourney
27.1.2023
A big fighting game tournament, Genesis 9, took place from January 20-23 in San Jose, California. Top talent from around the world, including Super Smash Bros. competitors Leonardo “MkLeo” Lopez and Samuel “Dabuz” Buzby, gathered at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center to play games like Guilty...
Top Smash Ultimate Player Throws Controller At Tournament, Sparks 'Privilege' Discourse
23.1.2023
Genesis 9, a major fighting game tournament, took place over the weekend. There were stellar combos and massive upsets as the supermajor event for Super Smash Bros. Melee and Ultimate concluded on January 22. Unfortunately, while the tournament was underway, one of Canada’s top Kazuya players...