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Hello Kitty’s home company is running its yearly poll to decide which out-of-company character will get their own event at the Puroland theme park.
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Japan
(cute • Hello Kitty • nintendo • online polls • Puroland • Sanrio • Splatoon)

Girlfriend creates Splatoon-themed surprise meal for fanboy boyfriend that is too cute to eat

Evie Nyan
Apr 16, 2018

This girlfriend went all out to give her Splatoon-loving-boyfriend the birthday meal of a lifetime!

Japan
(cute • food • relationships • Splatoon • video games)

Chinese knockoff of Splatoon to be released with “original” content, no one takes it seriously

Koh Ruide
Jan 8, 2018

After getting shut down once, you’d have thought the developers might have learned a lesson or two.

China
(Chinese Knockoff • knockoffs • nintendo switch • Splatoon • video • Wii U)

Japanese company will send instructors to your home to teach you how to be good at video games

Casey Baseel
Feb 10, 2017

Now you don’t have to hit the streets to become a better street fighter.

Japan
(Splatoon • Street Fighter • Street Fighter V • Super Smash Bros. • video games • weird)

Successful Wii U shooter Splatoon is about to get two manga adaptations

KK Miller
Jan 8, 2016

If you haven’t gotten enough Splatoon yet, you’ll soon be able to start reading the story of your favorite transforming squid/human characters.

Japan
(manga • nintendo • Splatoon • video games • Wii U)

Top 10 searched keywords from Japanese Google in 2015 include terrorism, rugby, and Splatoon

Scott Wilson
Jan 4, 2016

It’s been a busy year for Japan!

Japan
(2015 • Isis • list • my number • retrospective • Rugby World Cup • Splatoon)

Adorable Japanese kids’ homemade Splatoon costumes are ink-redible【Pics】

Scott Wilson
Nov 5, 2015

Halloween may be over, but that hasn’t put a stop to the internet being flooded with pictures of all the amazing and not-really-amazing-but-still-popular costumes that people wore.

One costume that was especially popular this year was the Inklings from the Wii U game Splatoon, but the ones who pulled it off the best have to be this pair of Japanese kids. Not only are their costumes homemade, but they look absolutely adorable while running around covering everything in pretend ink.

Japan
(cosplay • cute • halloween • kids • nintendo • Splatoon • video games)

Splatoon’s squid vs octopus Splatfest asks deep questions, ruins marriages

Cara Clegg
Oct 22, 2015

Video games have the power to change people’s lives, inspiring creativity and bringing friends and couples together.

But they can also destroy relationships. And it turns out that even Splatoon, the cute, brightly colored squid-themed shooter from Nintendo, is a culprit—although not quite in the way you might be thinking…

Japan
(cheating • gaming • nintendo • relationships • Splatoon • video games • Wii U)

Splatoon’s Inklings get a retro makeover in Super Mario Maker【Video】

Cara Clegg
Sep 24, 2015

Super Mario Maker, which was released exclusively for Nintendo’s Wii U console on September 10, has been a hit, giving hours of creative fun to Nintendo fans all over the world. There are tons of secrets and extras to be unlocked, and we wanted to show off a really cool one that takes Nintendo’s newest IP back in time into the retro Mario world. Read on to see Mario transformed into an Inkling from Splatoon!

Global, Japan
(Amiibo • Mario • nintendo • Splatoon • Super Mario Maker • Wii U)

Is Disney ripping off Nintendo’s Splatoon with its new Squid Wars minigame? Fans say “It sure is”

Casey Baseel
Sep 17, 2015

I’m pretty sure that by this point Nintendo is used to being one of the giants on whose shoulders many other video game developers stand. After all, just about every platformer or action RPG owes a debt to the company’s Mario and Zelda franchises, and its Metroid series was so influential in the design of similar exploration-heavy titles that gamers just threw their hands up and decided to call the genre “Metroidvania” (somewhat unfairly giving half the credit to Konami’s Castlevania, which wasn’t nearly as groundbreaking in establishing the category).

Still, it’s one thing when some third-tier software publisher or homebrew video game outfit toes the line between being inspired by your creation and outright copying it, and another when it’s world-famous Disney.

Japan
(copy • Disney • Disney Infinity • nintendo • plagerism • Splatoon • video games)

“It’s the Japanese! Run!” – Overseas gamers tired of playing Splatoon with Inklings from Japan

Casey Baseel
Sep 4, 2015

Online console gaming has been thriving for over a decade now, and ostensibly it should have brought gamers from all over the world into contact with one another as competitors and co-op teammates. In practice, though, regional differences in preferred genres, aesthetics, and overall play styles have meant that Japanese and Western gamers haven’t crossed paths all that terribly often.

At least until Nintendo released Splatoon this year for the Wii U, that is. Combining the team-based shooter Western gamers have so embraced with the colorful quirkiness that their Japanese counterparts have always been fond of, Splatoon’s popularity is bridging the oceans. This is giving overseas Inklings a chance to play with gamers in Japan…or to complain about them online and devise strategies to avoid them.

Global, Internet, Japan
(nintendo • Splatoon • video games)

Nintendo’s Splatoon (sort of) comes to PC – Get your squid on in Splat Fortress mod

Cara Clegg
Jun 30, 2015

Nintendo’s Splatoon, a new IP for Wii U, was released in May to wide critical and user acclaim. Apparently the combo of squid and kid is a winner; who’d have thought it?

However, while the title being exclusive to the Wii U has been helping to boost hardware sales for Nintendo, PC gamers who are unwilling or unable to shell out for a new console have been left out of the loop. But for those desperate for some inky multiplayer action, there’s a free option coming to PC soon: Splat Fortress.

Internet
(mods • nintendo • PC • Splatoon • Team Fortress 2 • video games • Wii U)

Splatoon dominates Japanese video site, makes us wonder if everyone is eating properly

Preston Phro
Jun 2, 2015

While the Wii U hasn’t exactly been the biggest success in Nintendo’s history, we can’t help wondering if newly released game Splatoon is going to help turn things around. The game currently has a score of 81 on Metacritic (and an 8.3 out of 10 from users), so it’s certainly getting some appreciation from gamers and game critics alike overseas. Someone in Europe even stole a truck full of copies of the game and Amiibo!

But how about in Japan? We already know that there seems to be a lot of younger people excited about it, but it’s not just kids who are loving the game…