Splatoon 3 release date, news, trailers and what we'd like to see

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Splatoon 3, the third instalment in Nintendo's quirky and colorful multiplayer shooter series, is in development for Nintendo Switch and it's currently expected to launch sometime in 2022.

The game was first revealed to the world in early 2021, with a trailer giving fans a glimpse at the new setting, the Splatlands, which presents a very different kind of locale from the bustling cities and trippy, otherworldly landscapes associated with previous games. We got a fresh look at the game in September 2021, in a second trailer which teases some of the game's new weapons, enemies, locations and its single-player campaign.

There's still a lot we have to learn about Splatoon 3 but we're hoping that's about to change now that we're in its release year. Here’s the breakdown of everything we know so far, as well as the things we’d like to see.

Splatoon 3 will be the latest instalment in the series, dating back to its first entry on the Wii U in 2015 and followed up with Splatoon 2 for Nintendo Switch in 2017. The series focuses largely on multiplayer battles between Inklings — adorable humanoid characters that have the ability to transform into squids to swim through colored ink.

This feature ties heavily into Splatoon’s gameplay. Its flagship multiplayer mode, Turf War, tasks two teams of four players to cover as much of the map as possible with their team’s ink. This is achieved via the player’s loadout of weapons. Keeping with Nintendo’s family-friendly vibe, weapons in Splatoon fire colored ink as opposed to bullets, and can be used to cover the map as per the objective, or to temporarily incapacitate your opponents.

Splatoon’s got quite a fun assortment of weapons, as well. From the rapid-firing Splattershots to a literal giant