Unofficial Dating App For Smash Bros. Players Gets Cease-and-Desist

Smash Together, an unofficial dating app started up for like-minded Smash Bros. players to conscionable and mingle, has claimed it has received a cease-and-desist missive conscionable earlier its unfastened beta.

The app was owed to participate unfastened beta today, May 15, aft respective months of development. But connected May 13, the authoritative relationship posted a bittersweet Yoshi meme, with the text: "We got cease and desisted." (Thanks for the spot, Automaton.)

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The app developers don't specify who the cease-and-desist is from, though the presumption would beryllium Nintendo, since it's a Smash Bros. dating app.

SmashTogether advertised itself arsenic the "premium dating tract for Super Smash Bros. enjoyers of each kinds," wherever 1 could marque their "dream Doubles spouse (in and retired of Smash)" with a matchmaking algorithm, tailored to "connect you with your perfect Smash Partner."

Included screenshots of the app included sections for listing your quality of choice, oregon "main," arsenic good arsenic notable wins and prompts, akin to those you mightiness find successful different dating apps but with a Smash Bros. twist. "I'm looking for... Someone who tin marque it retired of pools astatine a major," for example.

Alongside concerns implicit existent IP and copyright infringement, the thought of a dating app astir a crippled similar Smash Bros. was astir apt crushed capable for whoever sent the cease-and-desist to bash so.

There's been nary connection retired of the SmashTogether campy arsenic to whether the squad volition question an alternate solution, without Smash Bros. arsenic the foundation. Until then, delight admit the restraint I've exhibited successful this nonfiction by not penning a azygous gag astir "smashing."

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.