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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is getting a lot of new content with the 3.0 update, including a stage-builder and video editor, along with a brand-new DLC character: Joker from Persona 5.

Version 3.0 launches on April 17, and the new stage-builder and video editor are free, while Joker is a paid character costing $6 USD. Joker also comes with a new Mementos stage, which features music from the Persona series. Check it out in the video embedded below.

The stage-builder, which was rumoured, lets you create custom stages. In handheld mode, you can draw on the tablet screen using your finger to create new stages. The tools are robust enough to make all kinds of things, it looks like, and the tools support multiple layers to edit your stages in an even deeper way. Created stages are stored in a new “Custom” tab on the Stage Select screen. You can also view and download other people’s creations, though you’ll need Nintendo Switch Online to do that. The video below shows how it all works.

Additionally, the video shows off how the new video-editing tools work, while it also reveals you’ll be able to queue up stage downloads from the Smash World part of the Nintendo Switch Online app. You can also view recommended Stages and watch videos from Smash World.

Version 3.0 also adds new Mii Fighter Costumes to buy, including the Morgana Hat from Persona 5, the main protagonist costume and the Teddie Hat from Persona 4, and another protagonist outfit from Persona 3. You can also buy Tails and Knuckles outfits from Sonic the Hedgehog. The costumes cost 75 cents each.

Here is a video showcasing the new Mii Fighter Costumes:

With more than 12 million copies sold worldwide, Smash Bros. Ultimate is one of the best-selling Nintendo Switch games ever.

Update: Nintendo just published the official 15-minute video showcasing everything that’s in the spring 2019 update for Smash Ultimate, including all the Persona-related content coming to the game. The update launches April 17 as $6 DLC.

The main character from the wonderfully great RPG Persona 5, codenamed Joker, should be coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate any day now. It’s been said that he’ll be joining the battle as the 70th character on the roster sometime this month, but to hold you off until then, you can check out his official character render for the game below.

It’s the same character model that was first leaked by Best Buy, but it can now be dug up on Nintendo of Europe’s official page for Smash Bros. Ultimate. This came to our attention via a tweet from users @PushDustIn and @Digita1Lucas. You can see him out in all his glory, sporting his Phantom Thieves get-up when he enters the Metaverse.

Sourced from Twitter user @Skyplayer37

I confirmed this myself by digging through the page’s source code which was also shown by Twitter user @RealHeroOfWinds.

It’s legit.

Joker’s arrival in Smash Ultimate will coincide with the game’s version 3.0 spring 2019 update. This isn’t the only Persona 5-related news that you should be hyped up for. During a two-day special live concert, called Persona Super Live: P-Sound Street 2019 in Japan, details on a new version of the RPG titled Persona 5: The Royal will be revealed on day one, April 24. On the second day, April 25, the show will reveal the true form of the mysterious game Persona 5 S.

The Xbox One S All Digital Edition is finally confirmed, and it’s making a lot of people ask themselves whether the future of gaming is digital, and what we’d be missing out on if we abandoned discs altogether. In a new video feature, Jess and Eddie discuss the pros and cons of the new disc-less Xbox One and what it means for Microsoft’s vision of gaming’s future.

In the video, we dig into all the key particulars about the console including how its lack of a disc-drive might not be for everyone, the price being potentially too high, and if the 1 TB hard drive is indeed big enough.

We also talk about how Microsoft’s digital subscription services like Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Live Gold factor into the console, and how the new disc-free system is just an option for those looking to press further into the digital future.

The All-Digital Edition launches on May 7 for $250 USD. Are you interested in the new system? Let us know in the comments below!

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In a big change for E3, Sony has backed out of the show this year. Microsoft and Nintendo are still attending as representatives of “The Big Three,” but Microsoft’s broadcast is the only live show of the bunch. Nintendo’s is a pre-recorded Nintendo Direct. Xbox executive Phil Spencer talked about this unique setup today on the latest episode of Inside Xbox.

He said he and his team understand the “responsibility” of being the only one of The Big Three to have a live stage show presence as it relates to representing the gaming industry at a time when all eyes on the gaming business.

“This is going to be an interesting one,” he said. “We are the [only] platform-holder that has a live stage show. It’s kind of just us this year. I feel the responsibility of that. I want to represent gaming. I think it’s an important time where the larger community–news [organisations] and other things–are looking at the gaming industry at E3.

“I think it’s a time where we kind of pop above a lot of the noise that’s out there. The whole team, we’re taking the responsibility of being out there representing gaming and wanting to do a good job of that.”

Microsoft is rumoured to announce at least one next-generation console at E3 this year, while the company is also expected to discuss Halo Infinite–or at least its engine–at the event. We also recently learned that Microsoft will show off never-before-seen games from some of the studios it acquired recently during the show. There will of course also be surprises.

Microsoft’s E3 2019 briefing takes place on Sunday, June 9, at 1 PM PT.

While Sony won’t be at E3 2019, that doesn’t mean the company has no announcements to make. Just this week, executive Mark Cerny shared the first details about the PlayStation 5, and you can bet the company will talk more about the console at some point in the future.

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