NEWS: Super Smash Bros. 4 - Mother Brain Confirmed

Although the brain isn't a playable character, it has been confirmed as an assist trophy to help players in battle.

Speaking in the Miiverse, Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed the final boss in the Metroid series is to make an appearance in the next Smash Bros game.

Mother Brain will  randomly appear mid-battle - upon arrival, the player can utilize it to cause damage to the opponent using its various abilities.

Sakurai's official description of Mother Brain is:

"Housed within the Control Capsule! Protected by Rinkas! Eyeball armed with a Laser Brain Attack!! The massive Assist Trophy Mother Brain joins the collection!!"

In more Smash Bros news, it was recently confirmed the Pokemon Lucario will be available as a playable fighter.

NEWS: Killer Instinct Get's 'Jail' System For Quitters

New system is to be released via a patch and is designed to punish players who quit online bouts.

Community Manager 'filthierich' of the Double Helix forums has revealed a wealthy amount of information regarding the soon to be released 'Jail' system, which should make players stay in matches without quitting.

A total of 24 hours is the time players will be sent to jail, in which you'll only be able to fight among your fellow cellmates. See below for all the details, which has been taken straight from the forum.

RAGE QUIT SOLUTION IMPLEMENTED

Introducing a novel solution to rage quitters in Ranked Match: JAIL

- The first time your disconnect percentage goes above 15 percent you go to JAIL

- A 10 match minimum is required

- JAIL lasts for 24 hours. During this time you can only be matched against other JAIL members

- Each time you go to JAIL the amount of time increases by 24 hours (capped at 5 days – 120 hrs)

- While in JAIL your profile icon will be automatically changed to a custom JAIL icon to let you know you are in JAIL

- When your JAIL time is up, you go back into the public again (even if your disconnect percentage is back over 15%)

- However, when back in public, if you disconnect and you are still above 15 percentage you go directly back to JAIL

- For any match that sends you to JAIL, player will take a loss