The item drops, somebody grabs it, and the match stops being fair. An Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate can produce a Castlevania swordsman, a falling moon, a vintage Pong console, or a... Read More →
The Smash Bros. DOJO ran on weekdays from May 22, 2007 to April 14, 2008, and Masahiro Sakurai wrote all of it himself, in Japanese, for a localisation team to push out in seven... Read More →
Most game directors bury their rejected ideas in design documents nobody will ever read. Masahiro Sakurai publishes his. For more than two decades he has told the public, in his own words, which characters... Read More →
Masahiro Sakurai spent most of the 50-Fact Extravaganza on October 23, 2014 explaining mechanics, then closed it with a resurrection: Mewtwo would return to Super Smash Bros., and for the first time in the... Read More →
Shigeru Miyamoto closed an after-hours Nintendo event on May 10, 2006 with a trailer for a Wii game called Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and at the end of it stood Solid Snake – Konami’s... Read More →
On February 20, 1947, a captured German V-2 rose from the New Mexico desert carrying the first travellers ever sent beyond the atmosphere: a small container of fruit flies. They rode to about 109... Read More →
Everyone who has ever walked on another world did it while Richard Nixon was in the White House. The first bootprints went into the Sea of Tranquility in the summer of 1969; by the... Read More →
There is a painting in the Capitol Rotunda, twelve feet by eighteen, that shows neither a battle nor a signing. John Trumbull’s ’General George Washington Resigning His Commission,’ painted between 1822 and 1824, catches... Read More →
On January 24, 1801, weeks from the end of his presidency, John Adams wrote to a Quaker correspondent named George Churchman and set down a sentence almost none of the men around him could... Read More →
The Vice Presidency has always been a strange job. You're one heartbeat away from the most powerful office in the world, but nobody voted for you to have it. Nine times in American history,... Read More →
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