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Scalping with Nintendo consoles, particularly in North America, has always been interesting because it's kind of a byproduct of a part of their strategy that goes back to the 80s. I forget where I heard this—I'm pretty sure it was r/amiibo back in the Wii U days—but apparently when Nintendo...

Out of all of the features introduced in Smash 3DS/Wii U, custom moves were perhaps the one with the most squandered potential. The idea of each character having alternate versions of each special opens up a lot of interesting design space, but very little of it was actually explored. Instead...

Items are among the most iconic mechanics in the Smash series, even if they don't have that big of a presence in competitive play. However, thanks to characters like Link, Peach, Diddy Kong and Snake, many aspects of these mechanics are still relevant in a tournament setting. The underlying...

Smash tournament organizer and VGBootCamp founder Calvin “GimR” Lofton has released a video breaking down an under-utilized advanced technique in Smash Ultimate. The video was first teased on April 24, 2022, and was initially set to be revealed live on May 4, although the reveal was delayed due...

Source Gaming founder and ex-owner PushDustIn and translator Kody NOKOLO have released the second part of their translation of Smash director Masahiro Sakurai's final Famitsu column. Where the first part looks back on the development for Smash Ultimate's DLC, the second part is largely focused...

Nah, it's all good. tbh I was really hoping Kunio would be the final character for the first Fighter Pass, for pretty much similar reasons why I wanted an SNK fighting game character (I was hoping for Kyo, but we ended up getting Terry... and now I play on a box controller because of him lol)...

With another Nintendo Direct announced for September 23rd, it seems like we are about to finally learn who Smash Ultimate's final DLC character will be. Needless to say, speculation on who it may be is at an all-time high. Ever since the Kazuya reveal, speculation about the final DLC character...

The final DLC character for Smash Ultimate seems to be just over the horizon, and many fans are expecting a big, bombastic reveal as a truly special capstone to live up to the ultimate Smash game's title. However, there's another possibility. Most Smash reveal cycles have often ended not with a...

At 4 p.m. EDT on Aug. 27, 2021, the organizers for Riptide released a statement on Twitter, announcing that the event will no longer feature Project+ following a cease and desist order from Nintendo. Not only have the scheduled P+ tournaments been canceled, the event will not feature any P+...

Nickelodeon and IGN have released a trailer for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, an upcoming platform fighter featuring characters from throughout the network's history. The game will be published by GameMill, who previously published the Nickelodeon Kart Racers series, and is being developed by...

The latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has been released, and with it comes the latest installment of Smash developer Masahiro Sakurai's bi-weekly column. Kody "NOKOLO" and Robert Sephazon of Source Gaming have provided a summarized translation via a pair of twitter threads...

Dan actually clarified this on twitter. The main goal of DE was to make it so the DLC were no longer a separate purchase. the new character pack will be a free update.

April Fools Day has come and gone, and with it came the third Rivals Direct. Unlike previous iterations, which parodied the Nintendo Direct format, Rivals Direct 3 used a Visual Novel-inspired framing device set in the Lovers of Aether universe, mixed with audience participation the style of...

As part of a collaborative effort, several fighting game content creators have released videos about character archetypes in their favorite games. At the time of writing, three of these videos have been released: one by Novril focused on Guilty Gear XX, one by TheoryFighter focused on tag team...

In his latest video for SSBMTutorials, David "Kira" Kim asks viewers to put their knowledge of various Melee characters' optimal conversions to the test. The format is simple: Kira shows a clip of a possible scenario in Melee, then lists several possible options you could take in that situation...