Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai has reportedꦓly ❀"semi-retired" from his role at Nintendo.

That's according to an intervie🦩w with , which Twitt👍er user kindly translated into English for us.

"Sakurai confirms that he is semi-retired," PushDustin ꧃revealed in their lengthy Twitter thread. "He is 52 after all. When Smash for 3DS / Wii U and Ultimate he spent nine years in active development. Sakurai felt 𝓰that if he is just continuously making games full-time, his life will be over before he realizes it.

"Sakurai thinks the work on Smash is very important as it uses so many different characters/ concepts from the game industry," they added. "He is very happy to have worked on it. But, since he has more time available, he figured he would make his YouTube channel while he had the chance."

Interestingly, Sakurai also revealed that h꧟e had "recently cleared" Sonic Frontiers, Bayonetta 3, and God of War Ragnarok ꧂whilst at the same time as "riding his exercise bike".

The interview comes after Sakurai started a new YouTube series on game design that's quickly becoming one of the most fascinating channels on the platform. Apparently, it's generating "generally positive" responses, with his✅ videos repor🌱tedly averaging "over 99 per cent like/dislike ratio".

In other Nintendo-flavored news, a team of white knight hackers have discovered a critical security issue called ENLBufferPwn that could give hackers "full console" access to yo💟ur Switch, 3DS, and Wii U games an😼d systems.

Following a lengthy investigation, Nintendo has been updating affected games by releasing patches, which may explain why some older games - such as澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Mario Kart 7 - were recently, and mysteriously, upd꧅ated after many years of inactivity🍬.

Now details of the exploit have been publicized, it's probably a good idea to take what's left of the festive downtime and use it to ensure all of your Nintendo-f💖lavored systems and g🍃ames are fully updated to ensure you don't fall victim to this exploit. 

Affected games allegedly include Mario Kart 8 and its Deluxe versio෴n, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, 🔥ARMS, Splatoon 2, Splatoon 3, and Super Mario Maker 2, Splatoon 3 and Mario Kart 8. 

Here's our pick of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Nintendo Switch games available to play right now.