Smash Bros. Brawl Review on RIPTEN

For those of you who are undecided about picking up Super Smash Bros. Brawl today [seriously, what the hell's wrong with you?!] and you want a second opinion, allow our friends over at RIPTEN.com fill you in to the illness.
Wii Review: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Sakurai nerds out to packed audience of Smash fans.

I grabbed a better seat for the Smash Bros. Brawl presentation, led by lead designer Masahiro Sakurai. I saw Bill Trinen sitting a couple of chairs aways from me so I jumped over and shook his hand, told him I liked his work [I'm a big fan of Nintendo's localization team, they're amazing], and [...]

GDC Day 3, or HOLY SWEET MOTHER OF CRAP!

What a 180 today is compared to yesterday! The general population here at the Moscone Center has seem to have tripled, it’s like swimming though a sea of limbs over here! I’ve run in to some technical difficulties this morning when I forgot to pull out the USB chord out of my camera [...]

JAPAN: BRAWL SELLS HALF MILLION ON FIRST DAY!!

via IGN
Well any fears about Japanese gamers abandoning traditional titles in favor of casual ones can be put to rest. The first day sales of the highly anticipated Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii are reported to be close to the 500,000 unit mark.
It was a big day for game sales in general, Smash [...]

NESS IN BRAWL!!

via Starmen.net
Well this is some good news! My favorite video game character of all time is going to make his third appearance in the Smash Brothers series.

screencapture from intro cutscene to Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
Ness was my mainstay in both the N64 original and GameCube’s Melee. I was kinda worried that he [...]