Splatoon 3 Drizzle Season Arrives, Suprise Big Run Event Dropped

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Splatoon 3 was already going to have a big month in September. It wasn’t too surprising to learn that due to how the game’s 1st anniversary would be this month. Since its launch, the title has been one of Nintendo’s biggest games, especially in Japan, where it’s been selling like hotcakes for a year. We found out a little while back that today would be the arrival of the new “season” content via “Drizzle Season,” which you can enjoy right now. But Nintendo has decided to reveal even more stuff for gamers to enjoy today, including the arrival of a new Big Run event.

As you’ll see in the tweet below, the Big Run event will start later today and then go until Sunday. So there’s no need to rush into it right now, but you should still prepare for the Salmonid madness to come. For those who haven’t done a Big Run event before, this is when the Salmonids invade the Splatlands, and Salmon Run shifts to a map that wasn’t in the mode before to have you deal with the overrun of the species to try and send them back where they came from.

A Big Run is going down at the Um'ami Ruins starting today, and it features some possibly sketchy in-development Grizzco weapons! It's scheduled during the Splatfest Sneak Peek, so you can score conch shells too. And don't forget to vote for a Splatfest team before hopping in! pic.twitter.com/H2dcpFDvUB

The curious thing about this is that the Big Run events were one of the “big sells” for Splatoon 3, and up until now, we’ve always had advanced warnings about them coming. Typically, the Deep Cut team would do a small warning video, or there would be a tweet from the Squid Research Lab team highlighting the “monster” that would show up at certain points in the event. The last Big Run event we had was