Today Nintendo finally unveiled the next Super Smash Bros. for the Switch, and it looks to be the biggest and most comprehensive entry in the series to date. Called Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the new game will feature every single character from the series’ history, for a roster of more than 60 fighters. That includes DLC from the Wii U version of the fighter, like Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud and Ryu from Street Fighter, as well as long-forgotten characters like Metal Gear Solid’s Snake.
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“I speak from the depths of my heart when I say it’s a lot of work.” - director Masahiro Sakurai on creating Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Despite mining the past so much, the new Smash Bros. isn’t a port — it’s a brand new game. All of the characters have been reworked, both in terms of how they look and how they play, to better fit the modern game. Link, for instance, now wears his tunic from Breath of the Wild, and he can wield remote bombs. Meanwhile, Mario now wears Cappy, the sentient hat that introduced a slew of new mechanics to Super Mario Odyssey. Many of the changes were made with the intention of speeding up the game.
There are also new stages, including a Great Plateau tower from Breath of the Wild, and a ramp-filled city scene from Splatoon 2 — Nintendo previously revealed that one of the new fighters in Ultimate is the ink-shooting Splatoon Inkling, who will be joined by Ridley from Metroid. There’s no word yet on what other new characters might make their way into the game.
It’ll be available on December 7th.
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Microsoft Xbox E3 2018 press conference
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- Microsoft is building a game streaming service and new Xbox consoles
- Microsoft teases Halo Infinite for Xbox One and Windows 10
- Gears 5 launches next year on Xbox One and PC
- Gears of War is getting a Funko Pop-themed mobile spinoff
- Cyberpunk 2077 looks incredible
- See the first gameplay for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, from the developers of Dark Souls
- The first trailer for Devil May Cry 5 brings back your favorite platinum-haired demon-hunting family
- There’s a new Battletoads game on the way
- Jump Force is an all-star mashup of Dragonball, Naruto, One Piece, and Death Note
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps is coming in 2019, and it looks magical
- New Life is Strange game, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, is coming June 26th
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Sony E3 2018 press conference
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- Watch the very first gameplay trailer for The Last of Us Part II
- Spider-Man for PS4 shows off its open-world web-swinging in new trailers
- Death Stranding’s gruesome new trailer has babies, toenails, and actual gameplay
- Watch the first gameplay trailer for PS4 exclusive Ghost of Tsushima
- The Resident Evil 2 remake is coming on January 25th
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Electronic Arts E3 2018 press conference
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- Watch the trailer for Battlefield V, now with a battle royale mode
- BioWare’s Anthem launches February 22nd, 2019
- New game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will let you play a Jedi
- Sea of Solitude’s haunting trailer is about humans who turn into monsters
- Adorable yarn-based platformer Unravel has a sequel, and it’s out today
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Ubisoft E3 2018 press conference
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- Jade makes an ominous return in Beyond Good & Evil 2
- The Division 2 brings the apocalypse to Washington, DC
- Ubisoft announces Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, set in ancient Greece
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey steps in with the romance options Anthem lacks
- Starlink features Nintendo Switch’s first wacky peripheral
- Star Fox will be a Switch-exclusive playable character in Starlink: Battle for Atlas
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Bethesda E3 2018 press conference
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- Watch the first gameplay trailer for Fallout 76
- Fallout 76 is an online-only survival game coming out on November 14th, 2018
- Fallout 76’s multiplayer will let you nuke other people’s bases
- Fallout 76’s collector’s edition comes with a wearable power armor helmet
- Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls VI
- The next Elder Scrolls game is a beautiful mobile RPG named Blades
- Bethesda announces Starfield, its long-rumored sci-fi adventure
- Doom Eternal is a sequel to 2016’s amazing reboot
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood stars B.J. Blazkowicz’s twin daughters killing Nazis in 1980s Paris
- Watch 7 minutes of Rage 2’s intense Mad Max-style action
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Hands-on
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- Cyberpunk 2077 is part RPG, part shooter, part GTA-style mayhem
- Spider-Man on PS4 nails the most important thing: web-swinging
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider finds Lara Croft deadlier than ever — and reckoning with her power
- Pokémon: Let’s Go is a simple game improved by its pricey pokéball controller
- Starlink is like a kid-friendly No Man’s Sky with awesome spaceship toys
- Five new things we learned about The Division 2 today
- Destiny 2’s Gambit mode is the kind of innovative, intense fun the game needs right now
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is even more of a traditional RPG than last year’s Origins
- Sable looks like a Moebius comic and plays like Breath of the Wild
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Interviews
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- Microsoft’s big plan to turn Gears of War into the next Halo
- The Last of Us Part II will be a tale of revenge, its director says
- Naughty Dog explains how it made that Last of Us II kiss look so real
- Why Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was such a daunting game for its creators to build
- Why Metroid Prime 4 wasn’t at E3 this year
- EA on the backlash against women in Battlefield V: ‘Accept it or don’t buy the game’
- Here’s what we know about Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s new battle royale mode
- How a tweet brought cult classic Metal Wolf Chaos back to life 15 years later
- Even Kingdom Hearts’ creator gets a little confused about the story sometimes
- Kingdom Hearts III’s director says he’s putting equal effort into Final Fantasy VII Remake
- The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit will pick up three years after Life is Strange
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News
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- Fallout 76 sparks more fan anxiety about direction of series
- Fans think West Virginia urban legend Mothman is in Fallout 76
- Pokémon: Let’s Go’s pokéball controller costs $50, but it comes with a free Mew
- Disney says it didn’t censor a gay kiss at E3
- Fans think PT lives on in new Death Stranding footage
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will support GameCube controllers
- Smash Bros. Ultimate fans can’t stand Snake’s redesigned butt
- Sony is blocking Fortnite cross-play between PS4 and Nintendo Switch players
- Fortnite fans are furious at Sony for ruining their handheld dreams
- Sony issues weak response to Fortnite cross-play controversy on PS4 and Switch
- Netflix is getting Minecraft: Story Mode later this year
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Reports & Analysis
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- The 10 biggest stories of E3 2018
- The 25 best game trailers from E3 2018
- 10 things we learned about Fallout 76
- Microsoft is getting ready for the next Xbox vs. PlayStation console war
- Sony’s E3 press conference was a hyper-detailed gross-out fest
- How Fortnite is transforming the gaming industry
- Fortnite on the Switch is good enough to make Sony’s cross-play policy look even more stupid
- Fortnite’s celebrity tournament felt like a trial run for Epic’s grand e-sports ambitions
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