Nintendo's 'Splatoon 3' features cute battles with paint brushes, bathtubs, and even windshield wipers. Unlike other shooter games, Splatoon has attracted an especially friendly, inclusive fan base.

Splatoon is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, May 28, 2025. Below, we examine how it reached outside the realm of video games for its unique blend of inspirations. It is easy to ...

The ink-blasting multiplayer action of Splatoon 3 is shaping up to be one of the best Nintendo Switch games of the holiday season. Here are our early impressions.

We talked to Nintendo’s Bill Trinen about all things Splatoon 3, from its exciting new single-player campaign to its refined gameplay and wealth of addicting multiplayer options.

Splatoon 2 manages to improve on the original in several important ways. If you don’t take your competition, or yourself, too seriously, it might be your go-to game this summer. Save the Squid ...

After all, Splatoon 3 took five years to release following its predecessor's arrival early in the Switch's life. Of course, at least a portion of that longer wait may have been influenced by it ...

Splatoon 3 update: Ver. 10.0.0 (Released June 11, 2025) Added Features and Game Content Changes The following updates have been made when playing the game on Nintendo Switch 2: Made it so that the ...

Splatoon 3 has arrived on the Nintendo Switch, and returning players are able to transfer some of their Splatoon 2 data to the sequel. However, you only have one chance to do so when you first ...

Splatoon 2 is wise to leave that core unchanged, to avoid the temptation to try to make itself more elaborate to satisfy returning fans. If only the Switch's online infrastructure was as intuitive.

Every Splatoon game in the series has represented its in-universe languages with writing on clothes, weapons, maps, and the UI. Fans translated much of it to find Easter eggs and lore about the ...

Splatoon, metaphorically speaking, is Nintendo dipping its toes into the water of competitive online shooters. In many ways, it’s as shocking of a change to shooter conventions as Super Mario 64 ...