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On September 12th, Nintendo of America announced a string of events known as the “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate College Tailgate Tour”. Throughout this tour, Smash Ultimate demos will be playable at multiple football games at colleges across the United States starting on September 22nd.

Isabelle from Animal Crossing is a newcomer in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate according to the September 13th Direct, making her the second Assist Trophy to make the transition in this game.

With the reveal of Echo Fighters as a distinct category of fighters, Delzethin has released his list of potential candidates.

The Harassment Task Force, a project spearheaded by Josh “Roboticphish” Kassel back in April, has just released a completed Super Smash Bros. Community Code of Conduct.

While the September 6th Nintendo Direct was delayed due to a horrific earthquake in Hokkaido, Japan, plenty of information about Nintendo Switch and 3DS titles has emerged since then.

On Tuesday, September 4th, 2018, Best Buy officially announced that certain Best Buy stores in the US will have playable Super Smash Bros. Ultimate demos available on various weekends from September 8th to October 7th. This is the first time a retailer will have an Ultimate demo before the game launches on December 7th, 2018.

When someone told Savestate that he’d probably want to switch mains due to Link’s ranking, he became determined to prove them wrong. Seeing all of his character’s abilities ignited the self-proclaimed Link fanboy’s desire to become “the coolest Link main of all time.”

Here is a rapid-fire list of every update from the Smash Blog over the last month.

It’s been a while since Dragalia Lost’s reveal this April, but a Nintendo Mobile Direct all about the upcoming role-playing game has been confirmed for this Wednesday, August 29th, at 8:30 PM PT/11:30 PM ET.

If you didn't watch Shine 2018 when it was streamed live, don't worry! We have you covered with an in-depth, game-by-game recap of the entire top 8, complete with links to spoiler free vods and background on the significance of each win/loss.

Back in March of 2017, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took the gaming world by storm, heralding the era of Nintendo Switch. Now, the Switch is set to get its biggest game yet in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

The Legend of Zelda is one of the few enduring franchises that’s been on every Nintendo platform short of the Virtual Boy, and as you might expect, it’s been an important part of the Super Smash Bros. series since the beginning. Let’s take a look at how the Zelda series has been represented in Smash, from the N64 era to the modern day.

On August 23rd, 2018, eSports Ecosystem announced that they are sponsoring top Super Smash Bros. Melee player and prolific Samus main, James “Duck” Ma.

A new video presentation dedicated to “Nindies,” Nintendo’s name for Indie titles on the Nintendo Switch, will go live this Tuesday, August 28th at 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET.

On August 21st, Nintendo of Japan released two videos-one focused on Chrom and Lucina vs Ridley and Dark Samus, while the other was Snake vs K. Rool. ZeRo decided to break down all three characters from what he saw of the footage

This is the first year at SSC where top 8 was dominated by active Brawl players rather than Brawl retirees. Out of the top 8, the only player who doesn’t currently grind Brawl over other games is Nairo. Players like Joe “Toronto Joe” Cribari, Zeyan “Zan” Nizami, Kyle “Gunnermaniac” Runnels and the aforementioned Seagull Joe all made great showings and took out currently SSBBRanked players on their way to top 8. As the Brawl scene has diverged somewhat from the Smash 4 scene, we’ve seen players rise up to the challenge and work to optimize the game despite its relative inactivity.

Kelsy “SuperGirlKels” Medeiros has released a new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Kirby analysis video. Her video features Kirby gameplay from the Ultimate demo, as well as her thoughts on Kirby’s changes from Super Smash Bros. Wii U.

The release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is only getting closer and closer, and we’re all pretty excited to get our hands on the game and try out all of the newest features and characters. Still, it’s almost a guarantee we haven’t seen everything Ultimate has to offer, and with four months of wait still remaining, anything could happen. With that in mind, we went around the Smashboards offices and asked some of our staff which characters they still hope to see squeeze their way into the game before the final release. Here are some of their answers!

The Beefy Smash Doods have uploaded another YouTube video about Super Smash Bros for Wii U, a game which has a long history of tournament play, seen many high-level matches over the years and has a ton of sources of information for competitive players floating around the web. Despite that, there’s still a large amount of material and techniques that players are often unaware of, and these things frequently can be helpful to know about.

Over a year after their first guest character reveal, Shovel Knight has been announced during Rivals of Aether's panel at Super Smash Con 2018 as the game's final DLC character.

Rivals of Aether's sixth and final DLC character is set to be revealed during the development team's panel at Super Smash Con. This is going to be the game's second guest character, and though the speculation surrounding them should feel familiar to Super Smash Bros. fans, there's a couple of key differences.