^ This is last year, but hey I have never seen this because I am in the Navy. I was on deployment on a goofy aircraft carrier.
Kojima and Sakurai playing Smash Bros. OH! I wanna face them!
I think the chick in the middle is Sakurai's wife. She knows coding.
Where did you get the picture? Michiko Sakurai is his wife. Married shortly after Brawl's completion. Mentioned in a special thanks in one of Sakurai's books (I think pre-marriage), not 100% sure when they started dated or even the date of their marriage. I was going to write a Michiko Sakurai post eventually, but information on her is limited. She's only done one interview, AFAIK.
She worked on multiple games as a designer. She designs the UI, and made some of the stages (I know Mushroom Kingdom and the Metal Mario Stage in Smash 64, 100%, it's speculated that she could have designed the Yoshi stage in Smash 64 too. She also made the ending picture for Yoshi in the US version)
Boss battles is confirmed fake by @
gameonion
I don't think we will see anything tomorrow.
I saw some discussion on the Shovel Knight rumor. I wanted to throw in my two yen, as I'm involved with it. Sorry for returning to an old topic, I didn't notice it until today.
I think I've proven that I don't spread misinformation with Source Gaming (SG) and through my reputation in the community in general. If Tamaki's source is wrong, then there's nothing that can be done about it, I was wrong. However, I never lied. I don't lie to the Smash community.
I make mistakes, and I do fix them. With the amount of information I handle, it's natural to make some mistakes. That's the nature of the crazy amount of research the SG team and I do.
In my opinion, the Smash Community has been severely affected by such a lack of misinformation/ organization of information for over the course of the franchise's existence. Seriously,
some of the stuff I'm working on is over a decade old. I'm not going to unravel the work the SG team and I have done just to spread a rumor if I think it's false. For what purpose? Page views? I don't even make money on SG (In fact, I'm losing money every month), and I didn't even heavily promote my posts on Shovel Knight. I spent my entire free time last week answering people's questions whenever I got tagged.
I'm not looking to hurt the community, it's never been my intention or a thought that's crossed my mind.
Anyway, right now, after discussing it with @
Neo Zero and @
Tama, there is no strong reason to doubt what Tama's source is claiming. It's not as strong as the data leaks found by @
shinyquagsire23, as that was concrete, hard evidence.
I'm not 100% sold on the rumor, but as of right now it looks more likely than not. Until more information becomes available, I think it's best to just keep the rumor in your mind as a strong possibility of happening.