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Chris Kohler
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Features Editor, Kotaku. Japanese curry aficionado. Author of the books Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life and Final Fantasy V from Boss Fight Books.

Female Pikachu with a heart-shaped tail. Pikachu Libre is a girl, too. Read more

Ice Climbers are back. “Once Nana is gone, you’re in trouble!”

Ike’s Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn outfits are both here. Two versions are voiced a little differently, too. Ha. Read more

Mario has Cappy, plus the Wedding and Builder outfits. Link has the Breath of the Wild tunic. His bombs are now remotely detonated. He also has the regular green tunic, too. Read more

“The starting roster may be as small as the original Nintendo 64 game,” Sakurai said, but the process for unlocking characters has been streamlined. Read more

“Everyone is here!” is repeated again. “Every fighter in Super Smash Bros. history is joining the battle,” Sakurai said. Sheesh. You coulda said that at the beginning and saved me so much time. Read more

Toon Link. Young Link. Dedede. Rosalina. The three Mii Fighters. Little Mac. Pac-Man. Read more

And Solid Snake is back. “Everyone is here!” Pichu, Jigglypuff, Roy, Olimar, Robin, Lucina, Bayonetta... It’s all going VERY fast. Read more

Inkling. Captain Falcon. Zero Suit Samus. Wii Fit Trainer. Charizard, Ivysaur, Squirtle. Ness, Lucas. Ganondorf, Ryu. Ike. Read more

Fox. Falco. Marth. Zelda. Sheik. Villager. Meta Knight. Mewtwo. Read more

Sakurai is here to showcase some new fighters appearing in the game. Read more

“We shared just a small portion of what we’re working on” today, Takahashi says, and then cuts over to Smash.
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Now we cut to Kyoto, Japan, where Nintendo’s Shinya Takahashi is here to speak to us in Japanese about how cool Switch is. Read more

Third-party reel. Starlink: Battle For Atlas. Arena of Valor. Minecraft on June 21. Sushi Striker, available now. Mario and Rabbids DK expansion. Dragonball Fighter Z in 2018. Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion this summer. July 13 for Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. June 29 for Crash. Ninjala in Spring 2019. Carcassonne this Read more

Octopath Traveler time. July 13 is the date. You can get a new demo on June 14. Read more

Stay tuned for Nintendo Treehouse Live after this, Reggie says, for a closer look at “some of these games and more.” Read more