Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Platforms: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Year of release: 2018 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a platform fighting game from Nintendo in the long running Smash Bros series. Featuring iconic characters from across Nintendo's well known library, as well as many guest characters from across gaming history. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is immensely popular among younger gamers (rated 10+ in most territories, check your local age ratings), thanks to its family friendly cartoonish violence, easy to pick-up gameplay and controls, and the ability to have up to 8 players all playing on one shared screen. Matches in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are relatively short, allowing for quick sessions and quick tournaments, making it ideal to be slotted into most planned game based learning sessions. Mastery of the game over time requires training of good reflexes, mechanical ability, strategy and opponent analysis. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate also has a stable esports scene and is one of the larger esports games in high-school and middle-school competition, thanks to the game resonating well with those ages and being appropriate in terms of age rating.