During the development of Super Smash Bros. Melee, Masahiro Sakurai (creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series) maintained a site called "Smabura-Ken" for Japanese visitors. After the announcement of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a new site similar to Smabura-Ken was announced, titled Smash Bros. Dojo. Unlike Smabura-Ken, Smash Bros. Dojo was made available in both English and Japanese, although the Japanese version of the site has featured certain elements not present in the English version. Later added to the site were American English and British English versions, as well as Spanish, French, German, and Italian once the site was revamped.
He is also the author for the weekly columns of Famitsu Weekly.
He provides the voice acting for King Dedede [1] in Brawl and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.
Smash Bros. DOJO!!
Sakurai created a site in the form of a blog for information regarding Super Smash Bros. Brawl called Smash Bros. DOJO!!. Every weekday, he updated the site with updates about characters, stages, modes, and much more.
As of April 14th, 2008, the Smash Bros. DOJO!! is no longer updated daily.
Super Smash Bros. 3DS/Wii U
Sakurai began work on the newest iteration of the Smash Bros. series after finishing Kid Icarus: Uprising in 2012. No other news was released for the game until E3 2013, where a trailer was shown. Afterwards, the new site for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U was launched.There, Sakurai releases new photos from the game 5 days a week.
Trivia
- In the Pokémon Stadium 2 stage in Brawl, if the player looks inside the house that appears during the ice transformation, they will see a cat that is rumored to be Sakurai's.
