[Image Courtesy @Sora_Sakurai] Evo is the only esports event I look forward to every year. Where else can I see a guy in a full-body fox costume wipe the floor with opponents in Dragon Ball FighterZ? Sadly, with COVID-19 destroying eve...

Cblogs Recap: Week 19 -Genki-JAM makes a video discussing Devil May Cry 5. -Shoggoth2588 shares his gaming journal in the month of April. -EnigaticRanger wonders if the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed us all closer to an all-digital future. -...

The world is a strange place right now. Any given country is following different protocols in regards to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but Japan just recently decided to declare a state of emergency, sending some organizations into d...

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is continuing its spirit week relevance train, as they move from Ring Fit Adventure on to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The latest AC entry is blowing up the charts as folks continue to build up their island...

So Nintendo pulled a fast one on us this morning. Out of utterly nowhere, we got a Nintendo Direct Mini, which is actually like a full 30-minute surprise Direct. We all had to parse it together, but right at the 14:00 mark was a pretty huge...

A lot of studios were quick to respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but not all of them are equipped to handle remote work as well as others.  As a new Masahiro Sakurai Famitsu column intimates, the Smash Ulti...

Nintendo is once again holding an event for Smash Ultimate this week, and it heralds in new spirits. The publisher seems to be selling Ring Fit Adventure copies like hot cakes (especially in Japan), and that hard work is payi...

All eyes are on Masahiro Sakurai, father of Smash. Pretty much everything he says is micro-analyzed by the Smash community, including a recent tweet that contained the old Smash 4 "Battlefield" arena with the Inkling fighter,...

Look, if Bayonetta can make it in, the tamer Dante can too. There's been rumblings of Dante in Smash for a very long time. One of the key producers of the series even said that he's game for it once Devil May Cry hit Switch: and i...

When I first played Warframe back in 2013 on the PS4, I never would have thought it would eventually be ported to a Nintendo system, much less be featured in a new Super Smash Bros. iteration. But here we are! Announced this week by way of ...

Just last month during a polarizing Byleth Smash Ultimate reveal, Smash head honcho Masahiro Sakurai revealed a second Fighter's (Season) Pass. In short, it will have one additional fighter in its pass system (bringing the count from five i...

The "should Nintendo support a growing Super Smash Bros. pro scene" argument has been raging for some time now. Over a decade actually, if you bring it all the way back to the release and success of Melee. In recent years though pros a...

I didn't think the Spirit Boards in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate would be something that would interest me much when they were first revealed, but here we are more than a year later and I can't get enough of them. They're a small and sim...

It's time for the weekly weekend Smash Ultimate event, and this one is all about Byleth's teaching abilities from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Wait, don't go! According to the official Smash Ultimate Twitter account it'll be a tourn...

In case you missed it, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate added another Fire Emblem character. Now that character rules! But I totally get the Fire Emblem fatigue factor. Smash boss Masahiro Sakurai does too. Speaking to Fa...

[Check out our previous Smash Ultimate DLC coverage: Piranha Plant, Joker, Hero, Banjo, Terry.] Look, I understand that people are mad that yet another Fire Emblem character is coming to Smash Ultimate: as...

Now that the 7.0 update is live for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the next era of the game begins. Byleth is out now, but his release marks the end of the first Fighter's (season) Pass. From here on out we're in the age of Fighter's Pass Vol....

It's time for another huge Super Smash Bros. Ultimate patch, and 7.0 is finally upon us following a Sakurai Direct tease recently. You can find Fire Emblem: Three Houses spirits haunting the game now, as well as a bunch of Tetris&...

So this is a fairly breezy PSA: there's more Smash Ultimate free DLC. But there's caveats! I'll get the big one out of the way first: you need to be a Switch Online subscriber. I get that a lot of people are probably lapsed subscribers at t...

Nintendo is keeping the Smash Ultimate events running, and following a cool little amiibo tournament, we're back to spirits again. These spirits are a little more interesting than your average fare though, as Smash Ultimate is welcomin...

[CJ and Holmes Disagree is a series where Destructoid Features editor CJ Andreissen and washed-up Dtoid Show host Jonathan Holmes disagree about video games. Who will you agree or disagree with?] When I saw the Smash Bros. direct this ...

Lyle has hatched from his angry little chrysalis into the new year with video game news from the dead god's eye that includes the following: GameStop is screwed! Grand Theft Auto IV was removed from Steam! Smash has a new and very exciting...

Sakurai is upping his Smash Ultimate DLC game. This time the next Fighter's Pass is confirmed (Volume 2), which will add six new fighters into the mix. That's one more than the first pass, for 11 DLC characters in total at this time. I...

Well, tons of DLC is always a given when there's a Smash Direct. On top of Byleth, more Mii outfits are entering the fray for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate soon. That list includes Altaïr from Assassin's Creed, Cuphead, Rabbids,...

Today is a pretty big day for Smash Ultimate reveals, as Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses makes his way to the Super Smash Bros. stage. Both genders will be available, as will sacred relic weapons from the Fire Emblem se...