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The new Super Smash Bros. game for Nintendo Switch will be playable at E3 on the show floor, which is open to the public. Given the profile and popularity of the franchise, many were understandably bummed about the idea of having to stand in line for a long time when they could otherwise be enjoying the show. The good news is that Nintendo today announced an early reservation system whereby you can secure a spot to avoid the lines.

Here’s how it works: If you buy a ticket to E3 2018 by May 31 you’ll get an email from the ESA–which organises E3–on June 5 with details on how you can reserve an electronic ticket to play. Nintendo said you’ll want to be sure to add e3expo@e3expo.com to your email so it doesn’t get associated as junk. You can reserve a “for fun” ticket to play casual matches, or a “for glory” ticket that puts you in a more competitive match. Your ticket will come as a QR code that you can either access on your phone or by printing it out.

Nintendo added that you need to sign up to play Super Smash Bros. for Switch. “No on-site registration will be available,” the company said, so you will absolutely want to do this. Nintendo added that it’s not taking reservations for other games at its booth; for those games, you can just show up and wait in line.

In other news, Nintendo is hosting a high-level Smash Bros. tournament at E3, so you’ll be able to tune in to see some impressive skills on display.

Additionally, Nintendo announced that it’s giving away a collectible Nintendo Switch pin to people that the company spots playing the system at Nintendo’s booth and throughout the Los Angeles Convention Center.

E3 2018 public tickets are available for $250 as part of the three-day Gamer Pass. In addition to access to the show floor, tickets get you into the E3 Coliseum, which is a theatre where developers discuss their upcoming projects as part of panel presentations.

The new Super Smash Bros. game for Switch launches this year, and given that it’s one of Nintendo’s biggest and most beloved franchises, it’s expected to help Switch sales improve further still.

Nintendo’s E3 2018 briefing is happening on Tuesday, June 12, as part of a pre-recorded Nintendo Direct-style video. After that, Nintendo will host its annual Nintendo Treehouse video presentation where more details and footage on upcoming games will be shared.

E3 is synonymous with giant video game ads, and this year is no different. These ads are already going up in Los Angeles, and one of the first appears to be a massive mural for the new Spider-Man PS4 game from Insomniac Games. Art director Jacinda Chew posted an image of a huge mural for the game that is currently going up in downtown Los Angeles.

The mural is truly gigantic, measuring eight storeys tall. You can see the work-in-progress mural in the embedded tweet below; right now all it shows is Spider-Man the character and the PS4 and Marvel logos. We’ll have to wait to see how it all comes together.

We’re expecting to see many, many more giant video game posters in and around the Los Angeles Convention Center soon, so keep checking back with GameSpot to see those.

Spider-Man releases exclusively on PS4 on September 7. Ahead of launch, we’re expecting to learn much more about the title at E3 this year, as the game is one of four games Sony is focusing on at E3. In other news, we recently learned the game is locked at 30 FPS, and will not have microtransactions.

For more on Spider-Man, check out all of GameSpot’s previous written and video coverage here.

Generally, the best Avengers teams are those brought together by circumstance. Way back at the beginning, Loki’s machinations compelled Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Giant-Man and Wasp to join forces for the first time. Decades later, a similarly eclectic band of heroes were brought together by fate in New Avengers #1. The latest incarnation of these series is cut very much from the same cloth. It’s building a compelling new team using the invasion of the Dark Celestials as a catalyst. And despite some concerns about the early course of the series, this new team is looking to be a promising successor to those that have come before.

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We offer you landing tips and initial strategies straight from the PUBG mobile team in the first part of this ongoing strategy series.

So far, Anthony Daniels’ character C-3PO has been in every Star Wars movie, including 2016’s Rogue One and all the main, numbered releases. Solo: A Star Wars Story is set before A New Hope, and after Revenge of the Sith, meaning it’s long after Anakin built the protocol droid. Threepio’s exact activities in between Episodes 3 and 4 aren’t necessarily known, so for all we know, he could have fit somewhere in the events of Solo. And Mark Hamill added credence to that theory earlier this month when he told the Washington Post’s “Cape Up” podcast that “Daniels was so happy, ’cause he’s in every single Star Wars movie…Every single one. All the prequels. He’s in Rogue One, he’s in Solo.”

If you’re ultra sensitive about spoilers, leave now! As it turns out, C-3PO is nowhere to be seen in Solo: A Star Wars Story. So what gives? Did Hamill misspeak? Was he misinformed? Did the cameo exist at one point, only to be taken out at some point in Solo‘s troubled production?

The answer, is turns out, is much simpler: Star Wars fans simply misinterpreted Hamill’s comments. There’s no C-3PO cameo in Solo, but Anthony Daniels does play a part.

“There is not a C-3PO cameo in the movie, but what there is, and what [Hamill] was referring to, is the Anthony Daniels cameo in the movie,” Solo co-writer Jonathan Kasdan told GameSpot during a recent interview.

Well, that explains that. So where exactly is the longtime C-3PO actor in the newest Star Wars Story? Who does Anthony Daniels play in Solo?

“During the Kessel Mine escape, the other Wookiee, whose name is Sagwa, has a human best friend,” Kasdan explained. “In the end, you see this moment when Chewie is torn between going with that other Wookiee, and going with Han. And then they press their heads together. And the person who is calling that other Wookiee to ‘Come this way!’ is Anthony Daniels.”

So that’s it. Really, it’s not actually that exciting, though we’re glad Daniels has kept his streak up. It does get slightly juicier, though, as Kasdan also revealed this little tidbit about Sagwa and his human pal:

“I’ve in my mind worked out a whole story for them–they may be lovers, they may not,” he said. “It’s never quite clear.”

Solo is out in theaters next Friday, May 25.

The dates and location for Star Wars Celebration 2019 have been revealed.

As detailed on the official Star Wars Celebration website, next year’s event will take place in Chicago at McCormick Place and will run for five days from April 11-15.

Star Wars Celebrations 2019, image via Twitter.

Tickets will go on sale on June 5 at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm UK/3 am AEST (June 6) on StarWarsCelebration.com. More details about the event will be revealed at a later date.

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