{"id":386839,"date":"2025-10-29T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-gi-live\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:57:54","slug":"super-smash-bros-ultimate-gi-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-gi-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | GI Live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-gi-live.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not every week\u00a0development ends on one of the biggest games ever released. This week saw the historic inclusion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/10\/05\/sora-from-kingdom-hearts-is-the-final-smash-bros-ultimate-fighter-joining-the-roster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kingdom Hearts hero Sora<\/a> in Smash Bros. Ultimate, the last character ever to be introduced\u00a0in Nintendo\u2019s incredible celebration of video games. In honor of this momentous occasion, the <em>Game Informer<\/em> staff has decided our weekly Thursday afternoon stream will be spent duking it out against each other in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right! Catch Alex Stadnik, Marcus Stewart, John Carson, Wesley LeBlanc, and Jill Grodt as we take part in a brawl for the ages on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/gameinformer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitch channel<\/a> at 2 p.m. Central on Thursday. We will be checking out how Sora has handled the transition into Smash and also just battling it out for funsies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/livestream\/2021\/10\/20\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-gi-live\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch embedded media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Initially released in December 2018, Smash Bros. Ultimate boldly claimed \u201cEverybody is here\u201d with a roster now topping off at 89 characters (including Echo fighters). Sora\u2019s inclusion in Fighter Pack 2 wasn\u2019t the only big surprise for the season of DLC. New roster members not owned by Nintendo like Minecraft\u2019s Steve, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/opinion\/2021\/10\/06\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-does-not-have-too-many-anime-sword-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Final Fantasy VII\u2019s Sephiroth<\/a>, and Tekken\u2019s Kazuya joined the fight. Clearly, just about everyone is here, and a universe-hopping character like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/opinion\/2021\/10\/06\/soras-inclusion-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate-is-a-perfect-series-sendoff-for-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sora is the perfect way<\/a> to bring it all to an end.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/livestream\/2021\/10\/20\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-gi-live\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not every week\u00a0development ends on one of the biggest games ever released. This week saw the historic inclusion of Kingdom Hearts hero Sora in Smash Bros. Ultimate, the last character ever to be introduced\u00a0in Nintendo\u2019s incredible celebration of video games. In honor of this momentous occasion, the Game Informer staff has decided our weekly Thursday afternoon stream will be spent duking it out against each other in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate! That\u2019s right! Catch Alex Stadnik, Marcus Stewart, John Carson, Wesley LeBlanc, and Jill Grodt as we take part in a brawl for the ages on our Twitch channel at 2 p.m. Central on Thursday. We will be checking out how Sora has handled the transition into Smash and also just battling it out&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-gi-live\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Super Smash Bros. 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