Image: Masahiro Sakurai on making games The article can only be viewed with JavaScript enabled. Please enable JavaScript in your browser and reload the page. The creator of Kirby and Smash Brothers explains the benefits of virtual reality in game design. Although he has been interested in VR for years, he has yet to release …
Aw shit, here comes Nintendo again.Screenshot: nintendo If you have been following the dizzying drama around the smash World Tour, you may have seen Nintendo’s new statement regarding the sudden cancellation of the tournament. The mario the manufacturer said he “cares about Super Smash Bros. fans,” expressly stating that esports organization Panda Global had no …
Nintendo Says It “Cares” About Smash Bros. Fans as tournament dispute continues Read More »
Nintendo has shared a lengthy statement in response to recent claims that it told unofficial Smash World Tour organizers that popular fan competition, including this month’s final Smash World Tour Championships, could “no longer function”. The Smash World Tour, an “international tournament circuit in which Ultimate and Melee competitors can qualify for the Smash World …
Image: Nintendo Update [Fri 2nd Dec, 2022 11:30 GMT]: We learned earlier this week that the unofficial Smash Bros. and the upcoming tour would be canceled effective immediately after receiving a cease and desist notice from Nintendo. This was expected to cost the tournament a huge amount of money in cancellation fees and seemed like …
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A few days after the announcement of the Smash World Tour [SWT] would cancel its final 2022 championship and 2023 tour, Nintendo issued a lengthy statement on the decision not to offer SWT a license to host Smash Bros. events. In a statement to IGN, Nintendo said its “decision was based solely on our evaluation …
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Smash World Tour organizers have announced their 2022 Championship Tournament and their 2023 series of events have been canceled following notice from Nintendo that they can no longer hold their tournament. “It is with an incredibly heavy heart that we must announce that the upcoming Smash World Tour Championships, as well as the Smash World …
Nintendo Shuts Down Smash World Tour Fighting Game Championship – IGN Read More »
Let the community have fun, Nintendo, sheesh.Screenshot: nintendo In the wake of Nintendo being Nintendo and unceremoniously cancel the smash World Tourone of the biggest esports tournaments of the year dedicated to everything Super Smash Bros., many in the game’s community protested. Casual fans, professional gamers, long-time commentators and even other tournament organizers, AITX eSports …
The Smash Bros. Tournament Fiasco has players boycotting events Read More »
Enlarge / A huge Smash Bros. mural. of a trade show. The organizers of a large Super Smash Bros. tournament series, the Smash World Tour, say Nintendo denied their request for an official license, cutting off months of negotiations “without any warning”. The decision led to the cancellation of next year’s season and next month’s …
Nintendo tells Smash World Tour it can no longer run unlicensed tournaments Read More »
Image: nintendo The organizers of the Smash World Tour have today announcement that they are closed after Nintendo, “without any warning”, told them they could “no longer operate”. RoundWhich one is run by a third party (since Nintendo has always been so bad at it), had grown over the years to become a of the …
Nintendo shuts down Smash World Tour, organizers ‘lose hundreds of thousands of dollars’ Read More »
Image: nintendo The organizers of the smash World Tour have today announcement that they are closed, after Nintendo—“without any warning”—told them they could “no longer operate.” The Tour, which is run by a third party (since Nintendo has always been so bad at it), has grown over the years to become one of the biggest …
