Splatoon: tweets and pics of the day (May 29th), some shortages in Japan, videos, and more

Miiverse sweepstakes

If you read our post about the weekly Nintendo eShop downloads for North America, you probably know about this. By posting some Splatoon artwork in a special community on Miiverse, you can win the game!

Here’s the official annoucement from the Press Release:

Miiverse Ink-redible Splatoon Sweepstakes – Head over to Miiverse for an opportunity to win the Splatoon game! A new community called “Miiverse Ink-redible Splatoon Sweepstakes” is open under the Play Nintendo community from May 26 until June 30. Visit the community here, which is already full of ink-redible drawings. To participate, just post your Splatoon fan art in the community. You can enter every week for your chance to win Splatoon.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void where prohibited. Open to U.S. residents who are at least 13 years old. Sweepstakes begins 5/26/15 at 2pm PT and ends 6/30/15 at 11pm PST. Submit fan art via Miiverse to enter. Three weekly prizes: 1 Splatoon game (ARV $59.99 each). For alternate means of entry, full sweepstakes details and official rules: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/rules/miiverse-splatoon/. Sponsor: Nintendo of America Inc.

Squid Research Lab

Today, the Squid Research Lab posted some more tweets on the official Twitter account for Splatoon. The first one is about Collectible Badge Center (on the Nintendo 3DS), which received some Splatoon badges today.

Here’s a video of the badges, courtesy of Nintendaan:

The second tweet was about the King of Games t-shirts!

Finally, they showed the “gauge”: when filled, the Ranked Battle modes will be unlocked. Now that Splatoon is now officially out in Europe and North America, it’s filling much faster!

Source: Splatoon

Videos and misc.

Finally, it looks like Splatoon is off to a great start in Japan. According to retailer sources, the shipment for first week is around 150k, and about 80% of all units sent to retailers were sold during the first day. Some stores have already ran out of copies, and Nintendo had to send a second shipment already. But it looks like it won’t be enough: the company even apologised for the shortages, and promised new shipments next week.

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Here’s a French commercial for the game:

And then, two videos for the Splatoon Mess Fest (which took place last week):

Splatoon (Wii U) is now out worldwide!