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Last night, we posted a few photos from the Splatoon Mess Fest. You can now get a look at the event in video form below.

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Nintendo published a few photos from the Splatoon Mess Fest, which was held at the Santa Monica Pier earlier today. The full gallery of photos and descriptions are posted below.

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In this photo provided by Nintendo of America, James Marsden from Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues and his daughter Mary get inked as they navigate through a massive obstacle course inspired by Nintendo’s new colorful action shooter game Splatoon at the Santa Monica Pier on May 15, 2015. The game, packed with ink-spraying, turf-claiming action, launches exclusively for Wii U on May 29, 2015.

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In this photo provided by Nintendo of America, celebrities Alli Simpson, Willow Shields, Dylan Riley Snyder and Veronica Dunne team up to celebrate the launch of Splatoon, Nintendo’s colorful new action shooter launching exclusively for Wii U on May 29, 2015.

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In this photo provided by Nintendo of America, James Marsden from Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues and his daughter Mary attend Nintendo’s colorful Splatoon Mess Fest event at the Santa Monica Pier on May 15, 2015.

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In this photo provided by Nintendo of America, Nolan Gould from Modern Family competed in Nintendo’s Splatoon Mess Fest ink-filled obstacle course on May 15, 2015, at the Santa Monica Pier in California. Splatoon, packed with ink-spraying, turf-claiming action, launches exclusively for Wii U on May 29, 2015.

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In this photo provided by Nintendo of America, fans gather to cheer on teams as they participate in an ink-filled obstacle course at the Splatoon Mess Fest event at the Santa Monica Pier in California. The event celebrates Splatoon, Nintendo’s colorful action shooter game launching exclusively for Wii U on May 29, 2015.

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This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute is once again Splatoon-focused. In it, we get another look at the Battle Dojo. Watch the episode in full below.

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Nintendo released a new weapons-focused trailer for Splatoon. You can watch it below.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 69 Comments

Nintendo did not distribute a response to the April 2015 NPD data yesterday, though the company did share a few figures with GamesBeat. The site was told that, though the first four months of the year, Wii U hardware sales are up 15 percent compared to the same period in 2014.

Unfortunately, that still doesn’t tell us much. But thanks to a chart shared by creamsugar – a person known for leaking NPD data – it’s looking like Wii U sold approximately 43,000 units in the U.S. last month.

Here’s a rough breakdown of the chart pictured above (note: Wii U takes up the position of 10.60 percent share):

Xbox One = 187,000 units
PS4 = 174,730 units
Wii U = 42,890 units

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Nintendo is bringing back the Splatoon Global Testfire demo for one more round, the company has announced.

You’ll be able to get in one more round on Sunday, May 24 at 00.00 CEST. That translates to the following times:

3 PM – 4 PM PT (Saturday)
6 PM – 7 PM ET (Saturday)
11 PM – 12 AM in the UK (Saturday into Sunday)
8 AM – 9 AM in Australia (Sunday)

Once again, those in Europe who download the demo can claim a 10 percent discount on Splatoon’s eShop version when the game launches on May 29. It’ll drop the price to €35.99 / £31.49 (regularly €39.99 / £34.99).

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Posted on 9 years ago by Dennis Gagliardotto(@LyonHart_) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 7 Comments

The Splatoon hype continues as Inside-Games just announced via Twitter that plushies based off of the squids in Splatoon are heading to Japan in late July.

These awesome plushies will come in orange and green and will be both be priced at 2,800 yen.

As someone who’s excited for Splatoon beyond comprehension, and wants as much Splatoon merchandise as possible, this is really exciting to see. Let’s hope these make their way to the west and we see even more plushies later down the line! Maybe some Inklings and Octolings too? Let’s just hope these are ink-free.

Splatoon releases on May 29th, 2015

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Nintendo hasn’t shared any specific figures about its hardware or games for the month of April in the United States, but GamesBeat was able to obtain a few tidbits from the company.

According to the site’s report:

Through the first four months of 2014, the 3DS’s sales have increased by 65 percent compared to the same four-month period in 2014. For the Wii U, it is up 15 percent in the first four months of 2015 compared to that period in 2014.

GamesBeat also heard from Nintendo that Xenoblade Chronicles 3D was the fifth best-selling game in the U.S. last month if you do not combine sales for platforms.

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NPD Group has released a listing of the top ten best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of April 2015. The results can be found below.

1. Mortal Kombat X (PS4, Xbox One)
2. Grand Theft Auto V (PS4, Xbox One, PC, 360, PS3)
3. Battlefield: Hardline (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
4. MLB 15: The Show (PS4, PS3)
5. Minecraft (360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4)
6. NBA 2K15 (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
7. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
8. Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3)
9. Super Smash Bros. (3DS, Wii U)
10. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection (PS4, Xbox One)

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Game Informer went live with another article about Disney Infinity 3.0 today. The latest information covers the game’s farming, Dispenser, path tool, proximity detector elements.

A summary of details are rounded up below. Be sure to give Game Informer’s full piece a look here.

Farming

– Farming is one of the Toy Box’s biggest additions
– More content for the so-called nurturing players
– With the farming system, players can cultivate and harvest crops
– This can be done alone or with a sidekick buddy
– Sidekicks eat food
– Feeding them will allow the sidekicks to gain experience in different ways
– Sidekicks become better helpers and stronger companions in the new Toy Box Takeover dungeon-crawler game

Dispenser

– The new Dispenser addresses the problem of overwhelming players with too much content
– The Dispenser is like an oversized gunball machine
– It’s loaded with toy-filled capsules
– Stand on its button, and a capsule pops out, containing a random Toy Box item that you’ve already unlocked
– When you chuck it onto the ground, its contents are revealed
– Every new Toy Box world starts out with one of these dispensers

Path tool

– New path tool allows creators to add entirely new gameplay to their Toy Boxes, and add in elements and effects that were only previously possible through workarounds
– With the tool, players draw a path, dot by dot, in their world
– As each dot is added, the path attaches to those behind it
– When it’s finished, creators can use it as an A.I. path
– Can use the tool to create paths for A.I. drivers to navigate or create rail shooters
– The camera can swoop by on a path, adding a cinematic flair
– The camera can also be locked onto a 2D plane, allowing for actual side-scrolling platform games
– Paths can be of varying widths, and they can be used to trigger effects such as fireworks

Proximity detector

– Assign the toy to a character, and they then have several invisible concentric circles radiating from their bodies
– Each section can trigger a different response
– Ex: cross one of the outer rings, and a townsperson can tell you to back off
– Get closer into its user-defined comfort zone, and it can be configured to run away from you
– Put it on an object and have sound effects play when you get too close

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