If you're among the gamers who frequently visit the Smash Bros. Dojo!! site for the latest 411 on Super Smash Bros. Brawl, you'll want to listen to this news. Sakurai just announced that the Dojo will no longer be receiving any further game-related updates.

Sakurai's parting letter revealed some pretty interesting info, including that the site accumulated about 300 blogs in about 11 months. The SSBB director also noted was that the highest recorded number of visitors to the site in one week was around 7.15 million users worldwide.

Sakurai also wants to thank everyone that helped translate the site form Japanese to many different languages for the viewing of many people worldwide.

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

Before creating this site, I knew I wanted it to be updated 5 days a week and support several languages. It was clear that this would be a massive scale 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?!"

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

But the real credit for making the unthinkable possible 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 localization staff of Nintendo of America, who did the translation from Japanese to English, as well as the language specialists on the European production staff who handled the translation to several more languages.

InnerDemon via smashbros.com »