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Offstage has announced that Smash Fiesta, Malaysia's biggest Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament is returning after a four-year hiatus. Earlier this month, it was revealed that Offstage was going to be holding a 64-player Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (SSBU) tournament sometime in December. What we didn't know is that it was going to be the retur...
Offstage, the renowned Malaysian Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (SSBU) community recently dropped a bombshell teaser. The tantalizing reveal announced a colossal 64-man tournament set to take place in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in December 2023. Smash enthusiasts are already marking their calendars for what promises to be an electrifying even...
Panda Global has come out with a second statement announcing the removal of Dr Alan as CEO but it may be too little too late. In case you missed it, I did a video on our YouTube channel breaking down the drama prior to Panda's first statement. https://youtu.be/PokCM7v90mg A day and a half after their initial statement, Panda Global come out w...
No doubt you've heard about the Smash World Tour's cancellation and how it involved esports group Panda Global. Go watch this video from our own esports correspondent Lewis Larcombe about it. https://youtu.be/PokCM7v90mg After that video and news broke, Panda Global published an official statement about it on Twitter. And following that, a da...
EVO 2022 is going to be a thing this 8 May for fighting game fans. However, one major fighting game will not be making an appearance. The Evolution Championship Series organizers just announced that Super Smash Bros. will not be making a return appearance. The reason is Nintendo has chosen not to continue supporting the game for this year's EVO ...
Malaysian fighting game group Infinite Carnage is making a splash in the offline fighting game scene this month. First up is the KUL Fighting Games Championship 2022, organized by Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL). Here are the details: Venue: Panggung Anniverseri, Taman Botani, Kuala Lumpur Date: Saturday, 19 February 2022 Time: 10.00am - ...
Turns out that the early leaks are true: Kingdom Hearts' main protagonist Sora is the final addition to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The Square Enix RPG hero who fights with a keyblade is light on his feet. He's the lightest character in the game, has air combos up the wazoo, and can cast spells like in the JRPGs he's in. For players who want fas...
Nintendo just published a new Nintendo Direct focused on the latest addition to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Tekken's Kazuya Mishima. Most importantly, he'll be available sooner than you think. Game director Masahiro Sakurai talks about the philosophies in bringing a 3D fighter like Kazuya into the 2D SSBU mix. He picked Kazuya not because of his...
Fighting game fans of the Smash variant, rejoice. New characters Pyra & Mythra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 will be out later today (or tomorrow in GMT+8 time) on the Nintendo Switch eshop store. The duo will be sold in the Challenger Pack 9 for US$5.99; the whole Challenger pack that contains the two costs US$29.99. Check out the gameplay fo...
Nintendo just announced new fighters in its hit 2D fighting game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Minecraft characters Steve & Alex. They act as tag team character who can switch between Zombie and Enderman, two other iconic Minecraft characters. The duo also come with a new SSBU stage, obviously set in a Minecraft backdrop that comes in four dif...
The name Sky Williams may not be familiar to many outside of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate community, but his associations in the esports circuit might be: D1, Keitaro, and ZeRo are renowned for SSBU highlight plays online and offline. The trio of fighting game esports players (among many others in the SSBU circuit) has stayed in one of the sever...
It's been about a month into 2020, but some of us are still hung up over what to call the best game last year. 2019 was probably one of the best years for gaming within the past few years. We saw companies rise above previous trials, and others with their armour cracking, revealing the true monsters inside. But enough of descriptive metaphors for ...
*This article is still under development since the tournament schedule may not be final and may change at any given time. EVO Japan 2020 is tomorrow and will feature the best of Japan, Asia, and America duking it out for glory and the top spot in many fighting games. Said titles include Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Samur...
The folks at EVO Japan 2020 just revealed its prize payout chart and it clearly showcases which fighting game its organizers, publishers, and sponsors are solely focused on. So to recap, these are the 1st place prizes for the respective games. Street Fighter V: US$9,000. Tekken 7: US$9,000. BlazBlue- Cross Tag Battle: $4,500. Samurai Shodow...
Nintendo reveals its latest Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character: Byleth from the award-winning Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Both the male and female version of the professor, FYI. [gallery ids="51096,51101,51099" type="rectangular"] So what's cool about Byleth? He/she can use either one of the Creator's relics (ie the superweapons in Fire Em...
Believe it or not, it's already a year since we were graced by the current king of best-selling fighting game and fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game. No matter how you look it, there's no denying that it's one of the most successful execution of "easy to learn, hard to master" in a fighting game. Happy first anniversary to Super Smash Bros. Ulti...
Masahiro Sakurai, the director of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and his team recently announced the release of SNK mascot Terry Bogard, a special King of Fighters stage, and about 20 SNK character cameos like Ryo Sakazaki, Kyo Kusanagi, and Iori Yagami. What was missing was a cameo of a particular bouncy ninja: Mai Shiranui from the Fatal Fury and KO...
When it comes to fighting games, almost no title is as iconic as Street Fighter II. It inspired a turning point in video games history, popularising fighting games and sparked the beginning of an age where arcade games became the craze for people of all ages. [caption id="attachment_43031" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Even Ryu is in the game!...
Following the upcoming release of Overwatch for Nintendo Switch this October, fans are speculating whether their intrepid FPS heroes and support may make an appearance on Nintendo fighting game Super Smash Bros. Turns out the Overwatch folks have weighed in on the possibilities. According to an Inverse interview, producers Wes Yanagi and Andrew Bo...
This story is still in development... It's official: Fatal Fury's Terry Bogard will be a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate character later this November. He will be the fourth character in the SSBU Fighters Pass. He's currently in development, so there's no gameplay yet. He'll be using his famous Power Wave and Burn Knuckle, so he'll probably use his ...
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