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WARNING: Inside the actual translation, Sakurai does spoil parts of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Fire Emblem: Fates. Source Gaming has added spoiler tags for answers that contains those spoilers, and none are included in this post.

With 6 characters in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, Fire Emblem is playing an increasingly important role in the Super Smash Bros. series. Sakurai took a moment to discuss his own personal history with Fire Emblem in the 25th Anniversary book that was released in Japan. This is the first part of Sakurai's interview from that collection. The second part, which discusses Fire...

Super Smash Bros. Crusade is a fan made Smash game with the goal "to create a Smash Bros. game packed with characters and stages from the most memorable video games of all time as well as create a Smash Bros. experience that combines the greatest features that all official Smash Bros. games have to offer."

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Weekend Watchlist of 2016: number 34! The Smashboards events system recently got a fantastic upgrade and we've combed through all of the tournaments submitted to find some of the best events being streamed this weekend to feature here. So without further ado get ready to watch and read because here is our Weekend Watchlist!

Happy New Years to all Smashers worldwide! 2015 was definitely a historic year for Super Smash Bros Melee. We saw some of the best SSBM ever as the game experienced one of it's craziest years thus far and now it's time to revisit all the hype! EMG is highlighting the Top 30 SSBM plays of the past year in a 3 part series today starting with plays 30-21. The video includes 4 Falcon punches and two 2v1 comebacks, just to list a few!

Happy New Year Smashboards! Or maybe not so happy depending. Do you still suck at Smash? Made a new years resolution to finally get good? Well don't be down, Omni is here once again to lend his signature voice and give some stellar advice! Watch the video and learn how to 'git gud' in 2016.

Welcome to SmashBoards Writer's Interviews! This is a series that will appear at twice every month covering a writer. These are more casual interviews, but depending on the interviewer, we leave it up to you whether they'll answer further questions.

This week we have SmashBoards Writer Liberation! He does a lot for the community even if he's more of an underground man, so please, give it up for Liberation!

Featured in Ontario Canada, Get On My Level (2016) was announced recently at May 21st to May 22nd at the Queen Elizabeth building. Get On My Level will contain singles of all four Smash games and doubles of Super Smash Bros. Melee & Wii U. The event will feature a 5k pot bonus for Smash Bros Melee & Wii U Doubles and a 1k pot bonus for Smash Bros Melee & Wii U Singles.

Dismantle 2 is set to have a bit of everything. When we say everything, we MEAN everything: Smash 64, Melee, Brawl, Project M, Smash 4, and doubles event for every single game. Not excited enough yet? The tournament is set to have a wide range of talent across all of the titles from Redd and ORLY in Melee to Nairo and Dabuz in Smash 4. Events2Compete know how to make an event incredible. Read on and learn all of the reasons why Dismantle has the community buzzing!

Tutorials to learn how to use characters are very important. Learning the ins and outs of moves, techniques, and more just as much so. But something often overlooked but just as important is knowing what stages to pick and the benefits and disadvantages of stages in competitive play. Youtube channel One Hit Smash has created the first video in a series that aims to analyze legal stages to help those learn more about them. Here is the first video on Battlefield!

Week 13's Top 5 Smash Shorts is here with some more crazy Smash plays. This week's Weekly Top 5 Smash Shorts series shows off the power of seeing the future as prophecies come to light and Shulk works his monado arts.

What is a Smash Short? As the name suggests, it's a quick moment or series of events in Smash that is so good, you have to share it with someone. We're giving you (yes, you) the opportunity to share those moments for a chance to be selected as one of the Top 5.

Another Smash 4 player has been signed in eSports today with @M@v now being a part of True Ambition! Mav is currently power ranked as number one in the Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) power rankings and is a member of the Smash 4 Backroom here on Smashboards and regularly places high in events locally as well as in Ohio.

For players that have entered a live event in the fighting game community within the United States, the idea of sitting directly next to the opponent is something so commonplace that it is not often thought about. But in Asia many tournaments have players fighting on separate setups across each other on a stage. But which of these is better? Core-A Gaming takes a look at both layouts in their latest video and explain how each can alter the meta-game at events.

In his 495th installment of the Thoughts About the Video Games column, Sakurai discusses fan criticism following the reveal of Cloud in the last Nintendo Direct. After Cloud's reveal, some fans complained that Cloud was 'not Nintendo enough' to be in Smash.

Source Gaming has the full column translated for fans to read.

In the column, he begins with how George Lucas has stepped away from the newest Star Wars:

Separate from that, in an interview in the American edition of Vanity Fair, Lucas himself apparently said “you go to make a movie and all you do is get criticized. And it’s not much fun. You can’t experiment.”

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A truly serious problem….! He’s such a big name, and to hear him leave this franchise that has impassioned so many...

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Mind Over Meta has migrated over from /r/ssbpm, the Project M subreddit, to be published full time on PM Underground! These articles still contain the information on how to improve your mental game and information on Project M written by a group of fantastic authors. With a Project M tier list recently being released it seemed as good a time as ever for OrangeGluon to write about tier lists. The full original article can be found here. Sit down, read, and enjoy.

SmashEurope just released a follow-up article to last week’s global poll about the stock count for Sm4sh. The questionnaire ended up getting close to 5000 responses and the results shed light on various questions and assumptions regarding the preferences of players and viewership. Taken together, roughly 58% of the voters actively prefers 3 stocks against roughly 25% in favor of 2 stocks, with the remaining voters being fine with both.

Last week, a collective of European TOs launched a global poll to gather data on stock count preferences in Smash 4. The poll was spread through SmashBoards, SmashEurope, SmashAsia...

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As the finest provider in information regarding Smash on the net, the users and dedicated fans of Smashboards are always working on important projects to help the scene. One of these projects are the community patchnotes for Smash 4. After the latest version (1.1.3) was released, players got to work compiling all the changed for people to read. But what about those who prefer a visual approach? Youtuber Vitamin ZK has created videos that show the changes that took place after the patch. Give them a watch!

With the PMDT disbanded and Project M v3.6 as its final release, many players have been wondering where the characters will end up falling on a tier list now that the game will have time to settle. The folks at PM Underground have worked with Reslived to publish a tier list voted on by 50 Project players across various countries and show the findings from this poll. Ready to see the tier list? Give it a look!

Welcome to SmashBoards Writer'- Oh, this is a twist. The start of something new? General interviews? Starting with the one and only famous Smash 4 player ZeRo! - It makes sense considering even he was a SmashBoards writer.

In the future, these general interviews will have a bit more of a twist. Without further due still, please, give ZeRo a nice welcome!

Welcome to the Weekend Watchlist 33! The Smashboards events system recently got a fantastic upgrade and we've combed through all of the tournaments submitted to find some of the best events being streamed this weekend to feature here. So without further ado get ready to watch and read because here is our Weekend Watchlist!

Are the Sumabato NicoNico Qualifiers leaving readers wanting for even more Smash in Japan? Well this a lucky weekend as Umebura 20 will also be taking place! The tournament will be taking place December 27th and will not only give players a chance to see some of the best heading to Genesis 3 from Japan, but an impressive character variety.