Smash players Ken and KoreanDJ join Team Liquid

Two well known Super Smash Bros. Melee players have joined Team Liquid. Get more deatails on the sponsorships inside.

Apex 2014 streaming live right now (Jan. 17 - 19)

Apex 2014 is underway. Catch the live streams of the major tournament action inside.

Quick Reminder: Apex 2014 begins Friday (Jan. 17)

Apex 2014 is approaching. FightVG would like to remind you that this Friday, the event will begin.

NYCC 2013: D1 talks SOS Gamers and his latest efforts in the Smash Bros. community

One of the most renowned Super Smash Bros. community members, D1 spoke with FightVG on a variety of topics. Check out our exclusive interview after the jump.

Apex 2014 announced, date and location revealed

Apex will be in full swing during the first month of 2014. Peep the date, location and venue picked for the event inside.

Quick Quote: Tripping will not return to Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS

You can kiss tripping goodbye. According to the commander-in-chief of the upcoming Super Smash Bros. title, the mechanic has been removed.

Super Smash Bros: Mega Man Trailer (Video)

The Blue Bomber is back in the fighting game roost. Watch the Super Smash Bros trailer that puts the spotlight on Mega Man.

Quick Pic: Mega Man announced for Super Smash Bros.

Nintendo's E3 2013 Direct conference is over. The big reveal was Capcom's Mega Man would be making his way to the upcoming Super Smash Bros. title.

Disney toyed with the idea of a Smash Bros. style game

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We've seen games such as PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale inspired by the Smash Bros. series, but did you know Disney once had plans for a fighting game? Peep inside for the details.

Smash Bros Unity Ruleset Committee disbands

The Unity Ruleset Committee (URC) is no longer active.

Marc of Smash Boards has announced that the Smash Bros. URC has disbanded. This means there will no longer be updates by the URC, and Meta Knight (MK) will stay unbanned (unless certain tournament organizers feel otherwise).

Last year, the URC announced that MK would be banned from all tournaments under their rule post Apex 2012. This left the Super Smash Bros. Brawl community split as to how they felt about the committee.

See the full statement on the disband below:

Capcom VP: I'm not sure how Smash Bros. couldn't be considered a fighting game

Kind words or simply a matter of truth?

Capcom Vice President, Christian Svensson, spoke to members of the Capcom-Unity forums recently. One member asked if Svensson considered the Smash Bros. series to be a real fighting game franchise.

The Smash Bros. series started in 1999 with Super Smash Bros. for N64. Melee succeeded it for the Gamecube in 2001 and Brawl followed in 2008 for the Wii.

See what Svensson had to say about Smash Bros. below:

Reminder: Apex 2012 live stream starting at 11 a.m. ET on Jan. 6 - 8

The biggest Smash tournament of the year is finally here.

Apex 2012 will come to you from Rutgers University in New Jersey starting tomorrow (Jan. 6) at 11 a.m. ET and ending on Sunday (Jan. 8).

There will be two streams of the event. The Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Melee tournaments will be streamed by Jaxel on 8 Way Run. Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition v.2012 (AE v.2012), Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (UMvC3) and Mortal Kombat 9 (MK9) will be streamed by Bifuteki.

For the Apex 2012 schedule and more details, click here.

Watch both streams starting at 11 a.m. ET below:

Two Cents: Super Smash Bros Brawl Community and the Meta Knight ban

The Unity-Ruleset Committee recently announced that they will ban Meta Knight on July, 9 2012 after Apex 2012.

The ban only follows those who use the Unity Ruleset.

The ruling has sort-of caused a split in the community between those who use the Unity Ruleset and those who don’t. One side argues that Meta Knight should not be banned and people should learn to deal with it and learn how to fight him. The other feels like the character is a plague to the community and is not allowing the competition aspect of Brawl to evolve.

Both sides constantly argue back in forth on rules that are constantly being made to change the competitive aspect of this game.

Retro Friday returns this week (Sept. 9)

Did you miss him?

Don't answer that question.

After taking the month of August off, FightVG.com's exclusive Retro Friday feature will make its return Sept. 9, 2011. We've featured classics such as Super Smash Bros., Guilty Gear, SoulCalibur 2 and many more.

What retro fighting game will we showcase this Friday? There's only one way to find out.

Visit the site this Friday for your retro fix.

Click here to see previous Retro Friday features.

Apex 2012 schedule and details

Apex 2012 will take place Jan. 6 - 8 from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

What is Apex? It's the biggest Smash event of the year. The best Super Smash Bros., Melee and Brawl players from around the world compete to see who is the best Smash player of 2012.

FightVG.com will provide you with the live stream that whole weekend if you can't make it to Rutgers University for the event.

See the full schedule of Apex 2012 after the jump.

Two Cents: Super Smash Bros. Wii U

Wii Smash U.

Satoru Iwata announced at E3 that the new Wii U console would release a new Smash Bros game sometime in the future. Iwata plans on having Masahiro Sakurai work on the next title right after he is done with Kid Icarus for the 3DS.

The new Smash game will also have a 3DS port and will be compatible with the Wii U version.

Now our thoughts on the game after the jump.

It Came From Nintendo: Super Smash Bros. Melee

After the success of Super Smash Bros for the Nintendo 64, the sequel, Super Smash Bros. Melee hit the Nintendo GameCube over two years later on December 3, 2001 in North America.

If you loved Super Smash Bros, then you probably loved its sequel. The improvements made in Super Smash Bros. Melee were substantial and left many gamers satisfied.

New features included an Event Mode, where you try different challenges such as Fire Emblem Pride. You could also take pictures by plugging in a controller to the fourth port of the GameCube. In the game you could collect trophies that resembled characters and items. Gamers could read about its history once you achieved them.

The characters roster was greatly expanded, you could now dodge even in midair, and the characters had more move sets that made the game a more technical fighter then it used to be. There was also of course the graphical upgrade, the new items that were scattered across the game, and new stages from each Nintendo universe.

You could even play enhanced remakes of stages from the previous Smash game as well. One of the coolest new features in the game was the Adventure Mode where you could play through stages based on each character from their universe.

Remember the stage 1-1 from Super Mario Bros? Ever thought to yourself playing through it as Pikachu from Pokémon, or Link from The Legend of Zelda? That was the weird nostalgia that Adventure Mode brought, playing through it with different characters. At the end of the Level would be a boss from that video game’s universe.

For example, in the end of the Super Mario Bros stage you have to fight both Mario and Princess Peach on top of her castle from Super Mario 64, which is also a playable stage in the game.

This game was a dream come true, not only as a fighting game but also because of Adventure Mode that made the game a platformer in its own unique way.

It Came From Nintendo: Super Smash Bros.

Smashing its way onto the Nintendo 64 in the late '90s, a new franchise was born. Super Smash Bros. was a hit fighting game that sold over five million copies.

The game was marked down by fans as one of the greatest fighting games ever created. The 3D fighter took all of Nintendo’s well known mascots from different games and created an amazing crossover game that pitted them against each other in a four player madness.

It was a completely original fighting game.

Gone were the traditional health bars and special meters used in traditional fighters like Street fighter and Marvel vs. Capcom. The gameplay was simply mass mayhem, seeing who can knock the other player off the stage.

For gamers who haven’t played any of the smash games yet or those who may have forgot, here’s how the game works.