[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghEhI4CJjAM[/youtube] For E3 2014, aside from the usual banter of video game announcements, Nintendo has announced they will hold a 16-player Super Smash Bros. tournament at the annual event. Dubbed the Super Smash Bros. Invitational, the tournament will coincide with a limited demo run of the Wii U version of Smash Bros. at various Best Buy stores. Nintendo...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ciImvi3KCk[/youtube] In preparation for today’s Super Smash Bros. Direct, I thought I’d share this Did You Know Gaming? video on the Smash Bros. series. It’s very informative, entertaining, and well narrated. Click above to learn, rapid fire style, about the series’ origins, characters that may have made it into the series, and other...
A Nintendo Direct focusing on Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS is on its way: on April 8, at 3:00pm PT, prepare for some news on the two highly anticipated installments in the beloved franchise. This is definitely something to get excited about. I mean, like the Pokemon X and Y Direct and the Wonderful 101 Direct that came before, this is an entire Nintendo Direct dedicated to just two games. T...
Any fans of Diddy Kong as a fighter in Super Smash Bros. Brawl can rest easy: the little guy has been confirmed for a return to the Super Smash Bros. line-up for the series’ 4th entry. The timing for this reveal appropriately coincides with the release of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for Wii U. Will you be fighting as Diddy later on this year when the new Smash Bros. games are releas...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVO4woYcZF0[/youtube] If you’ve been paying close attention, you know that I have been putting up YouTube Spotlights on Tuesdays (fits the whole “YouTube Tuesday” tradition), but the nice thing about doing Spotlights is that there’s nothing confining them to Tuesdays! (Honestly, though, I just plain forgot.) *Ahem* moving on. In the s...
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmtrmAvL5aw[/youtube] The first and arguably biggest announcement made during today’s Nintendo Direct was the inclusion of Little Mac in the Super Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS roster. Little Mac’s first and most revered appearance to the video game world was in Punch Out!! for the NES, in which the player controls him to take out various opponents in b...
4th gen Pokemon Lucario is returning to the Smash Bros. series for Wii U/3DS. Lucario debuted in Brawl, alongside fellow Pokemon Jigglypuff and Pikachu (and Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Charizard if you care to know). From Sakurai’s Miiverse post on Lucario’s announcement: “We’ve increased the influence of Aura this time, so a damaged Lucario is truly a force to be reckoned with....
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QREyxpuYeGU[/youtube] Hot off the news of Toon Link being confirmed for the Super Smash Bros. roster, a new challenger appears: Sonic the Hedgehog. Announced by Satoru Iwata during today’s Nintendo Direct, Sonic the Hedgehog makes his second appearance on a Super Smash Bros. title and becomes the second third party character (Mega Man being announced a...
Nintendo confirmed today that a returning character has been revealed for Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. The character? Toon Link. Toon Link first made his official appearance on the Smash Bros. roster in 2008’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii. Link’s move-set was not detailed in any way on the official Smash Bros. website. He joins Captain Olimar and Pit as the ...