Splatoon 3 (Switch) News Articles
Thursday5th Jan 2023
Gallery Monolith Soft Shows Off Stunning Artwork From Annual "In-House Illustration Contest"
Feast your eyes on these amazing creations
Monolith Soft has just had another successful year with the release of Xenoblade Chronicles 3. It also provided assistance with the development of Splatoon 3. To wrap up 2022, it's held its regular "in-house illustration contest" where graduates can let their creativity run wild. According to a rough...
Thursday29th Dec 2022
Japanese Charts Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Surpasses 5 Million Sales
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet reach 4 million
The holiday week Japanese charts are in, and Switch games make up the entire top ten this week! No surprise to see that Pokémon Scarlet & Violet are again at the top with an impressive 375,665 units sold, with Splatoon 3 in second with 121,173 units. However, the big story is that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe...
Wednesday28th Dec 2022
News Here Are Japan's Top 30 Best-Selling Switch eShop Games For 2022
Unsurprisingly, Splatoon and Pokémon dominate
Nintendo has shared its annual Switch eShop sales rankings for Japan earlier today, and if you've been keeping an eye on the news over the last 12 months, then there will be no surprises here. Splatoon 3 is 2022's best-selling game on the eShop, which shouldn't be a shock given that it broke records in...
Friday23rd Dec 2022
Random The Splatoon 'Happy Holidays' Twitter Post Is Weirdly Un-Festive This Year
Splattin' around the Christmas tree
Think for a second about Nintendo's biggest games of 2022. There was Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Xenoblade Chronicles, Bayonetta and Splatoon 3, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the list goes on. It would make sense then, don't you think, for the
Japanese Charts Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - Reunion Makes A Strong First Impression
Scarlet and Violet close in on 4 million
The latest Japanese boxed charts are here (albeit slightly late this week) and there's no change for the top two spots, with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and Splatoon 3 sitting comfortably in their usual positions. Scarlet and Violet are very close to crossing the 4 million sales mark, and we wouldn't be...
Wednesday21st Dec 2022
News Tricolor Turf War Will Have Its Own Selectable Game Mode In Splatoon 3's Next Splatfest
Finally!
Update [Wed 21st Dec, 2022 16:00 GMT]: With the official Tricolor announcement now made available in English, we have substituted out the original Japanese post with the one from @SplatoonNA and have made some tweaks to our wording to better reflect this new addition. All updated information can now be found in the article below...
Tuesday20th Dec 2022
News Nintendo Announces Splatoon 3 Turf War Tournament For December (North America)
Registration now open
We might not have got the Holiday-themed Splatfest that we have been dreaming of all year, but Nintendo is making sure to round out 2022 with an inky bang. Announced yesterday, one final Splatoon 3 tournament will take place on 30th December for those in North America. The tournament is officially organised under the watchful...
Thursday15th Dec 2022
Japanese Charts Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Sales Overtake Splatoon 3
Dragon Quest Treasures has strong debut
The latest Famitsu Japanese charts are in, and the inevitable has happened — Pokémon Scarlet & Violet has overtaken Splatoon 3 to become the best-selling game of the year in Japan. Topping the charts once again, Generation IX of Pokémon has sold a further 277,676 units in the weeks of 5th December to...
Saturday10th Dec 2022
News Splatoon 3 Version 2.0.1 Is Now Available, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Download it today
It's been a busy week on the Nintendo week, with the company launching its third wave of DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and also announcing an expansion pass for the upcoming Fire Emblem game. In case you missed it, Splatoon 3 also got another update. While we've already issued a PSA about the "first big run event", it seems the...
Friday9th Dec 2022
PSA Splatoon 3's First Big Run Event Kicks Off Today (North America)
Defend Wahoo World
The debut of Splatoon 3's new recurring event, Big Run, has felt like a long time coming, but today (9th December) the wait is finally over. Kicking off at 4pm PT (those of us in Europe will have to wait until the early hours of the morning on the 10th) those pesky Salmonids are heading for Wahoo World and it's up to us to stop...
News The Game Awards GOTY For 2022 Is Elden Ring
Nintendo also took out a bunch of awards
The Game Awards has just concluded for another year and FromSoftware's Elden Ring has been crowned Game of the Year. It was up against A Plague Tale: Requiem, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West,
Thursday8th Dec 2022
Japanese Charts Pokémon And Nintendo Continue To Dominate
There's just no stopping them
We've got the latest Japanese charts for you and it's another strong week for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, with the latest generation bringing in another 310,235 sales, contributing to a running total of 3,424,806. This puts it just behind Splatoon 3's current total of 3,446,339, though it's probably safe to say that...
Wednesday7th Dec 2022
News Splatoon 3 Is Yahoo! Japan's Most Searched Video Game Of 2022
Pokémon Legends: Arceus was runner-up
We've already heard a lot about the success of Splatoon 3 in Japan this year, and now it's taken out another award. The third entry in the popular team-based squid shooter has officially been crowned the top searched game in the Yahoo! Japan Search Awards. Yes, it's a thing. Yahoo! Japan shared multiple...
Friday2nd Dec 2022
News Nintendo's Official Magazine For Winter 2022 Gets English Digital Release
Featuring exclusive Deep Cut interview
We saw the cover of this season's Nintendo Magazine a few weeks back now - a gorgeous 3D render of a Splatoon 3 Inkling and Smallfry - but with the content only available in Japanese, we had to be content with just looking at the pictures. Fortunately, a digital copy of the mag is now available in English,...
Thursday1st Dec 2022
Random Splatoon 3 Players Are In Love With This Weird Little Guy
And so are we
The Splatoon 3 Plaza is experiencing somewhat of a trend lately, but no one really knows what it is — just that it's him. The "him" in question is, as the lead image implies, a strange little creature with no name, often just known as "animal" or "the animal", sometimes just as "he". He appears different in everyone's...
Japanese Charts Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Are Gaining On Splatoon 3's Total Sales
Another half a million in the bag
The latest Japanese Charts data is here and it's another strong week for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, with the duo achieving another 577,279 sales over the course of the week to put them at a total of 3,114,571. Splatoon 3, meanwhile, added another 39,322 sales to make up a total of 3,407,477. What this means is...
News Nintendo Switch Online's Missions And Rewards Scheme Adds Splatoon 3 Icons
Fresh!
It's December folks, and you know what that means: yes, it's time to start each morning with a cheap little chunk of chocolate from our advent calendars. Not only that though, but Nintendo has added a bunch of fresh icons to its 'Missions and Rewards' scheme for Nintendo Switch Online. This time, they're Splatoon 3 themed and will be...
Wednesday30th Nov 2022
News My Nintendo Store UK Adds New Splatoon 3 Stickers Reward
Stick it to the man
We are all gearing up for the release of Splatoon 3's Chill Season 2022 in but a few hours, and it looks like the UK's My Nintendo Store is getting in on the action by adding a new franchise-themed reward to its catalogue. From today, the store is offering the Splatoon 3 Sticker Set for 300 Platinum Points. This consists of...
News Splatoon 3 Version 2.0.0 Is Now Available, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
An absolutely huge update has arrived
Update [Wed 30th Nov, 2022 05:45 GMT]: Version 2.0.0 of Splatoon 3 is officially live and you can download it now. You'll either be prompted to update the game when you boot it up, or you can perform a manual update within the software menu. Original story [Tue 29th Nov, 2022 03:00 GMT]: Nintendo has announced...
Tuesday29th Nov 2022
News Splatoon 3's First Big Run Event Announced For Mid-December
The Chill Season hots up
We are but a few short days away from the release of Splatoon 3's Chill Season 2022 update on 1st December (or 30th November for America), and Nintendo has started to reveal when we can expect the season's events to kick off. While there is no word on anything Splatfest related as of yet, we do now know that Big Run - the...
Thursday24th Nov 2022
Random You'll Soon Be Able To Fold Your Clothes In Splatoon 3
A neat update
There is a lot of new content that will be heading to Splatoon 3 next week with the arrival of Chill Season 2022. New stages, game modes, weapons and cosmetic items have obviously taken up the maj
Japanese Charts Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Dominate With Over 2.5 Million Units Sold
What a performance!
We have the latest Japanese Charts data and, as expected, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have absolutely demolished the competition, selling an astonishing 2,537,292 units in the duos first week of sale. This milestone was more than enough to knock Splatoon 3 off the top spot, but Nintendo's shooter still pulled in some respectable...
News Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Is The "Biggest" Launch Ever For A Video Game In Japan
Splatoon 3 has been dethroned
The good news for the ninth generation of Pokémon games just keeps coming. Following the update Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have surpassed 10 million sales globally in just three days, new data about the Japanese launch has been shared. According to Game Data Library, Scarlet and Violet have experienced the "biggest...
Friday18th Nov 2022
News Splatoon 3 Adds Another Returning Stage For Salmon Run In Upcoming Season
Would you Bay-leve it
Ever since the announcement of Splatoon 3's Chill Season 2022 last week, the official @SplatoonNA Twitter account has been drip feeding us pieces of information on what we can expect to find come 1st December - it's like the game's pre-release all over again! While we were getting excited by the announcement of the newest...
News Nintendo Shares More Details On Splatoon 3's Upcoming X Battles
Only for the best of the best
Last week saw the surprise announcement of Chill Season 2022, the newest update inking its way onto Splatoon 3. Of all of the new details revealed to be coming to the game including new stages, weapons and items, one of the biggest features to catch our eye was the introduction of X Battles with the update on 1st...
Thursday17th Nov 2022
Japanese Charts Tactics Ogre Debuts Strong, Outselling God Of War: Ragnarok
Tactical advantage
The latest Japanese Charts data is in and there are a lot of new entries this week, albeit made up of multiple SKUs for just three games: Tactics Ogre: Reborn, Sonic Frontiers, and God of War: Ragnarok. Aside from Splatoon 3 (we're almost certain at this point that the only games to knock it off the top spot will be Scarlet an
Tuesday15th Nov 2022
News Nintendo Gives Closer Look At Upcoming Splatoon 3 Stage 'Brinewater Springs'
Take a tour around Brinewater
Yesterday's announcement of the upcoming Splatoon 3 update, 'Chill Season 2022', might have caught many of us off guard, but there's no way that Nintendo is going to let any of the bonus content slip our minds. The detailed looks at the update began today with a walkthrough of what we can expect from the game's...
Monday14th Nov 2022
News Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Leads Nintendo's Nominations At The Game Awards 2022
Neon White, Sifu, and Tunic all net 3 noms each
The nominations are out for Geoff Keighley's yearly glamorous advertising and awards event, The Game Awards, which will be broadcast on Thursday, December 8th. Now, we're all well aware by this point that Nintendo's representation on these lists is usually pretty lacking until you get to the indies...
News Splatoon 3 'Chill Season 2022' Update Announced - New Weapons, Stages, Game Modes And More
Splatting onto Switch this December
It has been over two months since the release of Splatoon 3 and while we continue to have a great time with the game, we felt that some kind of additional content had to be imminent. Well, our premonitions have been proven correct, as Nintendo has announced a whole new batch of inky goodness will be coming to the...
News Team Water Wins The Splatoon X Pokémon Splatfest Event
Splish splash, I was inkin' a bath
Update [Mon 14th Nov, 2022 10:30 GMT]: The winner of the Splatoon x Pokémon Splatfest event is Team Water, represented by Big Man! Congratulations to Team Water. At the time of writing, it also happens that most of you fine people also voted for Team Water in our poll, winning with 36% of the vote! Team Fire came...
