Super Smash Bros. and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai is back in the news after his recent Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize win and his comments that he doesn’t think Japanese games should Americanize themselves for sales. This time around …Read more »
Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the video games Super Smash Bros. and Kirby, was recently given the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize (courtesy of Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs) for his YouTube channel “Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games.” After …Read more »
Now that development on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is finally behind him, along with the end of daily screenshot posting, director Masahiro Sakurai has at least a little time on his hands. To fill in that time and stay in front of the camera for …Read more »
Super Smash Bros. series creator Masahiro Sakurai has a column titled “What Masahiro Sakurai Thinks About Games” in Weekly Famitsu magazine, and his latest column was headlined “Everything has an End.” Sakurai tweeted, “I’ve been writing my column in Weekly Famitsu for more than 18 …Read more »
Sephiroth arrives in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tomorrow. Ahead of the highly anticipated addition, Nintendo released a YouTube video — “Mr. Sakurai Presents ‘Sephiroth.'” Mr. Sakurai being Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the Super Smash Bros. franchise. “I think he might be one of the …Read more »
How far would you go for your job? Do you ever keep working even when you’re sick? Even if you find yourself toughing it out through the occasional cold, chances are you don’t take it as far as Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai, who …Read more »
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