Anime Melee

Cecilia D’Anastasio: So Nintendo invited a bunch of Super Smash Bros. pros to showcase Smash 5 at E3 this year! And…

Eight players from around the world will face off on the Nintendo Switch in a Super Smash Bros. tournament during…

The so-called “fighting game community” is really a blanket term for an archipelago of dozens of games and scenes of…

2017 was the year that esports became harder to ignore than ever, even for the sports blog readers who are desperate…

Final Fantasy VII is one of the most influential roleplaying games of all time. Nine years after its release in…

It was 2am in early September. Yuichiro Takahashi was in his room eating a Crunky chocolate bar, listening to the RWB…

Doki Doki Literature Club snuck up on everyone and became a cult hit. Dan Salvato, its writer and lead developer,…

For 13 minutes, Gonzalo “Zero” Barrios’ face barely moved. It was the Grand Finals match of a Super Smash Bros. Wii…

The nearly month long, biggest esporting event of the year is upon us. League of Legends teams kicked off the…

Over the course of three years, an impostor convinced the Smash community—as well as her friends, housemates and…