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New weapon out Friday: [tweet]687816515664654336[/tweet] This will be the final weapon to be added to Splatoon, bringing the total number of weapons to 74 (including the three weapons you unlock with amiibo).

Nintendo Directs get just as much media coverage as a press conference does and personally I feel like press conferences are getting a little outdated and stuffy to hold my interest. The long pauses between announcements for someone to walk on stage, just for the them to talk for 30 seconds to lead in to a trailer all seems unnecessary. I think revealing the NX on a Nintendo direct would be fine.

yeah that was bad timing.I had leveled up to 'Money Champion' and needed around 40 points to get to Money King and couldn't get back on after that. Team Fitness won, which i'm actually really surprised by, as half the time I was playing during the Splatfest, is was putting us against other Money teams. When we did fight a Team Fit, we'd win. Was fun as always though.

EU splatfest has started

Little easter egg i found on the new map. If you go to the west side of the map and look out across the water in the direction of the Jellyfish in a rubber dinghy, wait until there's less then a minute left of the timer you see...

and 123 hours on Mario Maker. Will tally the rest later but these are the main two.

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yeah this is screwed up, whatever the cause of this, i know that I could see other peoples account details on my account page every time I hit refresh, which means there's a chance someone was doing that to mine. I do not have any CC details saved on my account though.

Merry Christmas

Apparently the Wii U version of this will be getting the 1.8.8 update that all the other versions received recently (apart from the Vita) next year. No word on if its going to increase the size of the world though. http://www.idigitaltimes.com/minecraft-188-update-wii-u-ocean-monuments-red-deserts-and-more-will-come-2016-499413

The Super Mario Bookmark site is up: https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/

I feel like this game was 3/4 complete when it launched but they have added so much since then its been more then a complete game for a long time now.

yeah as I understand it they are part of Rhapsody now. Reading around a few places, it seems people are just seeing the name Napster and then genuinely believing its the same thing it was back in 1999 and sneering at Nintendo over it.

ha! First song I ever downloaded was Hulk Hogans Real American theme. Pretty sure I got it off Kazaa though. I actually wouldn't mind knowing what Napster is like now, I assume its pretty much like Spotify and the rest of the music streaming services out there, so i'll probably give it a go on the 30 day free trial.

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The Developers of this game did an interview with Gameinformer today. Couple of things of note: So it looks like the map/weapons/gear updates will stop after January. It's a shame that its coming to an end but I'm not complaining about that, the support for this game over the past six months has been great. Plus the two new maps they just announced will keep my interest going in this game until at least February. However this seems odd to me. I'm not convinced that changing the map rotation to three to would greatly affect the challenge of the game. They themselfs up the map rotation to Three during Splatfests...

Splatfest Results

[tweet]675586075570610176[/tweet] Also the Splatfest starts tonight: "Pineapple on Pizza, delicious or disgusting?"

Nice. I'll probably pick this up. I am surprised they didn't have a Nintendo themed pack available for it, but that'll probably happen in the future. Edit-

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Splatoon won the Best Multiplayer at The Game Awards last night:

This is probably my Game of the year. I actually had zero interest in it back when Nintendo first announced it in 2014 and was skipping through any talk of it on the Directs leading up to its release. I just didn't care for it. Then back in May I played the testfire and desperately wanted to play more of it. I pre-ordered the game that night off amazon and when it arrived, I found myself playing it for 4 or 5 hours a night. Much like @Kounan, i would intend to play for just a few of rounds and it would turn into 4 hours without realising it. Even now, six months after its release I'm still putting in a couple of hours a day. Whats also been impressive to me is how well Nintendo have supported it. The game has had a new map or weapon every week along with a few larger updates with new gear. The pacing of it has kept the game fresh throughout the past six months. We're even getting a new stage to play on tonight.

[tweet]672149341751001088[/tweet] Also, here's the archive of the Treehouse Splatournament:

I am starting to wish they would put more then two maps in rotation now. There are currently Thirteen maps in total in this game, and most probably more to come so it makes no sense to keep it locked at two. Especially when they up it to three during the Splatfests.