New Maps, Gear, And More Coming To Splatoon!

When the first Nintendo Direct was announced since the passing of Satoru Iwata Nintendo fans were excited. Well in proper fashion Nintendo brought on the announcements and talked about how they would be keeping Splatoon VERY fresh. New maps, gears, a special tournament, and more were all included among the announcements so sit tight and get ready for some exciting news!

Inkoming Stages!​

Let's start with the two Inkoming stages: Museum d’Alfonsino and Mahi-Mahi resort! Museum d’Alfonsino features five rotating platforms that Inklings must travel across and maneuver to achieve victory. With lots of famous artwork parodied throughout the stage it is bound to be fun to fight on. Mahi-Mahi Resort has a unique gimick where the stage starts off partially covered with water and halfway through the battle more turf becomes available.

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FORTY, yes FORTY new pieces of gear will be coming to Splatoon in the next update including winter styles to choose from. A large selection was shown off by SplatoonJP, the official Japanese Splatoon Twitter account. With so much new gear to try Squids will surely be staying VERY fresh!

Also announced in the direct was a special tournament announcement! The Nintendo Treehouse will be hold a special 'Splatournament' set to be streamed live on Nintendo's Youtube and Twitch channels. The tournament will also show off various options for tournament rules as well as details on how to set up tournaments both in person and online.

Excited for all this news? Let us know in the comments below and don't forget to stay fresh!

 

I am crying. We need need new modes to be honest. They are updating until at least January.

 

I am crying. We need need new modes to be honest. They are updating until at least January.

Which means we're probably going to get a huge update in January

 

Which means we're probably going to get a huge update in January

I can only hope so. The only other alternatives I can think of are either paid updates only or no more content after that time.

 

I can only hope so. The only other alternatives I can think of are either paid updates only or no more content after that time.

Oh no, we've got to be getting another huge update. Splatoon has been so successful with these constant free updates and I don't think Nintendo's stopping there. (Still looking for my Squifferscope, New Squifferscope, and playable Octolings, if you please).

 

The EU never got told about tournaments coming to the game...

http://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Gear the wiki has updated and has listed all the new gear if anyone is interested in seeing them.

Suspicious how we are getting Octarian specific gear.

They must be coming ... Soon

 

Still waiting for a Hero Charger Scope :c

 

I'm happy to see that Nintendo is still giving free updates like that !

 

When the first Nintendo Direct was announced since the passing of Satoru Iwata Nintendo fans were excited. Well in proper fashion Nintendo brought on the announcements and talked about how they would be keeping Splatoon VERY fresh. New maps, gears, a special tournament, and more were all included among the announcements so sit tight and get ready for some exciting news!

Inkoming Stages!​

Let's start with the two Inkoming stages: Museum d’Alfonsino and Mahi-Mahi resort! Museum d’Alfonsino features five rotating platforms that Inklings must travel across and maneuver to achieve victory. With lots of famous artwork parodied throughout the stage it is bound to be fun to fight on. Mahi-Mahi Resort has a unique gimick where the stage starts off partially covered with water and halfway through the battle more turf becomes available.

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FORTY, yes FORTY new pieces of gear will be coming to Splatoon in the next update including winter styles to choose from. A large selection was shown off by SplatoonJP, the official Japanese Splatoon Twitter account. With so much new gear to try Squids will surely be staying VERY fresh!

Also announced in the direct was a special tournament announcement! The Nintendo Treehouse will be hold a special 'Splatournament' set to be streamed live on Nintendo's Youtube and Twitch channels. The tournament will also show off various options for tournament rules as well as details on how to set up tournaments both in person and online.

Excited for all this news? Let us know in the comments below and don't forget to stay fresh!

very nice can't wait!

 

Feh. Still just waiting for certain weapons to finally unlock. I guess new maps are nice, dont care about the gear much.

Maybe next time, bah.

 

very nice can't wait!

You don't have to wait. Update is already out.

 

THE NEW GEAR IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!! the new stages are gonna be so much fun to play too!! when i saw this, i had to get up and walk around (and scream a lil bit) because i was so excited!

 

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it's the one on the right. and is it just me, or is she giving off some serious harry potter vibes.

idk man she looks like she's wearing old grandpa clothes

 

idk man she looks like she's wearing old grandpa clothes

CAN'T UNSEE

 

@MelonBread why thank you very much for that horrifying image. Now if you'd excuse me, I need some holy water to cleanse my eyes.

 

CAN'T UNSEE

It's aight, she just went to the thrift shop.

 

idk man she looks like she's wearing old grandpa clothes

Oh God, it does look like she's wearing clothes that an old person does. XD

 

The tournament will also show off various options for tournament rules as well as details on how to set up tournaments both in person and online.

Excited for all this news? Let us know in the comments below and don't forget to stay fresh!

FINALLY!! This is what I've been waiting for. At least they'll tell us how THEY host offline tournaments. Honestly I was most hype for that.
Apparenly it's December 2nd http://nintendoenthusiast.com/news/nintendo-treehouse-hosting-splatournament-in-december/
Can't wait for this. plus that JSR hat that was in development...plz bring it back :,(

 

Well look what we have here. More news for all the kids to rejoice about, can't wait to see what Nintendo has in store for Splatoon in 2016.

 

the fang mask looks amazing, so here's hoping it's brand/main ability are great/decent. (Please don't be bomb range up main.)

Bomb range up is great. What are you talking about?

 

Um... Is anyone else concerned that they said new stuff will be coming until next January? Does that mean January of 2016 or January 2017?