This Smash blog has spanned about 300 posts in almost 11 months, but now the time to say goodbye has come.

Before creating this site, I proposed that it should be updated 5 days a week and support several languages. It was clear that this would be a massive undertaking for a website dedicated to a single game.

A lot of people around me were particularly concerned when I told them I planned to write blog posts while development was ongoing and continue to provide updates. Some argued, some just looked concerned and others asked, "Can you really do this?!"

But all of the text in the articles was written by yours truly, Masahiro Sakurai. Make no mistake.

However, the real credit for making the impossible a reality should go to the Brawl staff who took screenshots and did follow-up work, and the Nintendo home-page staff who did the updates.

I also must thank the localisation staff of Nintendo of America and the language specialists on the European production staff who handled the translation to several languages.

I feel gratitude that words cannot express. This site has been supported by so many staff members.

I created the Dojo with the intention of offering breaking news-type updates prior to the release of the game, and organising the site so that it could be used as a database of features in the game after its release.

Now that Brawl is available, I am hoping that players will continue to use the site as a resource for information.

...But wait a second! The European version still isn’t out yet!! We’re still hard at work on it, so please hold on a little longer!

Also, there’s always a chance that I will need to update sometime in the future with some kind of announcement.

Thank you, everyone!

Updates:

22/5/2007-14/4/2008
Updated on weekdays, 5 days a week

Number of posts:

About 300

Languages offered:

Japanese (original)
North American English
UK English
German
French
Spanish
Italian

Highest amount of traffic:

7,150,000 users in one week (worldwide)