Super Smash Bros. Melee

A new mod presents a new character, stages, and costumes into Super Smash Bros. Melee. Most surprising of all? Volleyball.

On December 6th, Melee it On Me and Beyond the Summit announced 5 Days of Melee, a five-day stream event celebrating the Melee community and raising money for Direct Relief.

Shortly after The Big House’s cancellation, the hashtag #FreeMelee caught on. A few days later, an anonymous twitlonger was published and spawned massive outrage. As a result, #SaveSmash joined #FreeMelee as a popular hashtag. Why did this twitlonger spark such emotion? It alleges that Nintendo has been harming the Smash community.

After more than 5 years of production and a successful Kickstarter, Travis 'Samox' Beauchamp and Metagame Documentary LLC have revealed the premiere details of the eight-part series followup.

After moving online due to safety concerns amid the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's iteration of The Big House has been canceled entirely due to a cease & desist order from Nintendo.

Let’s explore the origins of item commonly known as the Party Ball! Bring your party hat and let’s dive in!

New technology has opened the door for Melee tournaments to occur entirely online. Join the discussion - should we adopt online tournaments? Do we still need IRL Melee tournaments?

Ever wanted an arcade stick to use on any Smash game? How about other games on your GameCube Wii, Switch, and N64? Alt Lab Controllers presents their newest arcade stick.

Has 4 months of quarantine and laggy online got you looking for something new? Are you interested in trying out the older brother in the Smash franchise now that it's gotten a Netplay upgrade? Well, here's a few tips and tricks that'll help you make the switch!

The update boasts integrated matchmaking, automatic updates, replays, and the pièce de résistance—rollback netcode

Smash figureheads across the board have been declaring that Black lives matter, organizing charity tournaments, and holding fundraisers.

Smash has tons of great stages but none are more iconic than the stage, Temple. This The Legend of Zelda stage has stood the test of time and has remained a very popular and loved stage by Smash fans.

With their upcoming launch in June 2020, Alt Lab Controllers has released the first in their series of tutorial videos for the Smash Stick, this one focusing on advanced techniques in Melee.

An emo band? That wrote a song referencing to a Melee event in the title? It's more likely than you'd think. This small story has a few twists and turns.

Recently, the official PGStats twitter account announced that the Tournament Tiering System and Panda Global Rankings will be frozen. This decision applies to both the PGRU (Smash Ultimate) and MPGR (Melee) due to how unsafe travel currently is.

On March 1st, 2020, it was announced that the Apex tournament series will be revived with Apex 2020. Per the announcement, the event is under new management

VGBootcamp just made quite possibly the biggest move the Smash community has ever seen.

Can small local Smash tournaments stay afloat? How do they do it? Would we be better off with Nintendo sponsoring the scene? I sat down with Zagnes, a small Melee TO, to ask him these questions and many more!

Death, taxes, Super Smash Bros. ruleset overhauls: the constants of life. While there is often talk of making sweeping changes to the rules of a Smash game, relatively few see use in tournament play, much less widespread adoption. Examples of “successful” ruleset changes in Melee recently include wobbling bans and ledgegrab limits. Both have seen regional adoption, which is better than a 6 minute timer or frozen Pokémon Stadium, for example, have ever done.

The Panda Global Rankings for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate and Melee will begin their reveals starting on January 13th.