Super Smash Bros. Brawl has been confirmed as being online playable!! *Woot-Woot!!* Nintendo could not afford to release this game without online play. Not unless they wanted daily death threats and Nintendo fanboys making like a John Woo movie in the lobby of their Kyoto HQ.

As with all of Nintendo’s first party online titles, the game will utilize the bastard Friend codes. But players are at least able to somewhat communicate with one another by inputting short messages before a match and then having them be displayed as they taunt. It’s no substitute for voice chat, but it’s better than nothing I guess. *shrugs*

Super Smash bros. Melee was a brilliant game up to this point Brawl looked like it was well on its way to being a better game. But with that said, the next evolution for the series was always for it to be playable online. So if Nintendo were to put the game out with no online play it would’ve fallen short. Gladly we needn’t worry about any of that - because the game is looking fine and it’s online!!

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is going to rock. I can feel it in my toes. I just hope Nintendo don’t shit on European gamers like they always do by releasing the PAL version three months after the North American release. I think I’d actually have a Britney Spears style breakdown if they announced this would not release across Europe until March.

[Smash Bros. DOJO!!]