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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Director Stops Posting Daily Screens, Ending An Era
23.8.2022
It’s regrettably over. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has officially been laid to rest today, as director Masahiro Sakurai won’t post any more daily screenshots from the game on his Twitter, something he’s done since December 2019. The final nail has been placed. It’s the end of an era.Read more
July's Best-Selling Game Was MultiVersus, A Free-To-Play Smash-Like
19.8.2022
The best-selling video game last month was a free-to-play fighter from a company in flux. Yes, MultiVersus, also known as Super Warner Bros. Melee, topped the sales charts for July 2022, according to data-tracking firm NPD.Read more
Dinkum's 350k sales in a month: serendipity or foregone conclusion?
17.8.2022
We chat to the solo dev behind the Steam smash
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Competitive Community Really Hates Steve From Minecraft
15.8.2022
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate stans had an exciting weekend as SmashCon, an annual tournament dedicated to Nintendo’s popular crossover fighter (and clones like Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl) wrapped up on August 14. There were plenty of upsets, including one of the world’s best players, MkLeo, taking...
Real Human Being LeBron James Is Taking His Talents To MultiVersus
22.7.2022
MultiVersus, the free-to-play Smash-like based on Warner Bros. properties like Scooby-Doo and Steven Universe, launches in open beta on July 26. And according to fresh news out of today’s Comic Con presentation, NBA superstar LeBron James will join the fighting game as a playable character that...
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing MultiVersus, WB's Smash-Like Fighter
22.7.2022
MultiVersus is a free-to-play platform fighter, a statement that might draw comparisons to Nintendo’s original take on the genre, Smash Bros. But a good platform fighter will take the basic foundation established by Nintendo’s popular franchise and use it to create something newish. MultiVersus...
Velma Might Be The Best Character In MultiVersus, WB's Smash-Like Fighting Game
20.7.2022
MultiVersus arguably started with what’s known as the Ultra Instinct Shaggy meme. Derived from YouTuber Midya’s edit of an episode from Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur—where a hypnotized Shaggy single handedly defeats a biker gang—it was a viral hit that some felt culminated in the creation...
Smash Champ Apologizes For Attending Tournament While Seriously Ill
11.7.2022
After courting controversy for playing in a major Super Smash Bros. tournament over the weekend despite being seriously ill, world-class competitor Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma is now apologizing for his “incredibly selfish” decision.Read more
Smash Bros. Ultimate Fan Mod Adds Crono From Chrono Trigger
17.6.2022
Last year, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate announced that Sora from Kingdom Hearts would be the last character in the fighting game roster. But that hasn’t stopped fans from trying to add their own favorites to the game. Yesterday, a fan uploaded a mod that lets Smash players turn Hero into Crono from...
Kingdom Hearts’ Director Was ‘Very Picky’ About Adding Sora To Smash Bros. Ultimate
15.6.2022
Sora, the hero of Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts series, was added to Nintendo’s mash-up brawler Super Smash Bros. Ultimate last October, earning the distinction of being the final addition to the game’s massive roster. It was a heartwarming announcement for a fighter who’s actually kinda cool...
Am I on the IndieWeb yet?
9.6.2022
Can’t smash the Like button hard enough for what Miriam Suzanne has to say on the challenging technical hurdles of implementing Webmentions:
The first round required several online services along with HTML & JS changes to my static site, just to verify my
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Am...
Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting Shaken Up By Its Own Wave-Dashing Moment
2.6.2022
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans are obsessed with ranking the game’s extensive, crossover cast of video game characters in tier lists. Tier lists constantly change to reflect alterations to the game’s meta, caused by balance updates released by Nintendo, but also players finding new techniques....
Why Mario Strikers: Battle League Could Be Nintendo’s Next Multiplayer Hit
20.5.2022
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All Pop Culture Is Merging Into Mush, And The Iron Giant Is The Latest Casualty
18.5.2022
WB Games recently released a new trailer for its upcoming Smash-like fighter Multiversus. In it, characters like Harley Quinn, Bugs Bunny, and Shaggy fight each other before Superman and the Iron Giant show up at the end. While some enjoy the trailer, other viewers are disappointed to see the Iron...
Ninja Says He Wanted To Gift Evo $500,000 For Smash, But Nintendo Ghosted Him
3.5.2022
Massive streaming personality Tyler “Ninja” Blevins claims that he tried to give the prestigious Evolution Championship Series fighting game tournament (also known simply as Evo) a bonus $500,000 for its Super Smash Bros. prize pool years ago, only to get shut out by Smash developer Nintendo.Read...
Podcast: Dread Hunger's James Tan on its million-selling success
20.4.2022
Listen now (43 min) | Looking at the social deduction smash in depth
Will Biden’s Recent Executive Order Smash Barriers to Crypto?
14.4.2022
Instruments Of Destruction's 'build & smash' launch - deconstructed
11.4.2022
Also: the benefits of a curated store
Terra smash buys $139M Bitcoin, wallet reaches 31,000 BTC
30.3.2022
The Bitcoin wallet belonging to Terra amassed a further $139,000,000 in Bitcoin, bringing its total coffers up to 31,000 BTC or $1.47 billion
Smash Bros Champion Gets Twitter Hacked By NFT Dipshits
29.3.2022
Earlier today the Twitter account of Leonardo Lopez Perez, aka “MkLeo”, one of if not the best Smash players in the world, was hacked by crypto freaks trying to shill their bogus NFT schemes.Read more