'Splatoon' Brightens Up Nintendo's Wii U Line-Up With Multi-player Madness

Nintendo’s latest project invites players to dive head first into paintSplatoon, a brand new franchise from the publisher, takes competitive gaming and turns into a brightly colored mess.

Nintendo unveiled Splatoon for the Wii U, a completely new property, at this year’s E3 convention. While we only saw a vertical slice of the game, it showed a lot of potential and promise.

Splatoon’s one playable mode puts two teams of four players against each other. Each player inhabits a squid-kid hybrid armed with a gun that shoots neon-colored ink in thick globs. The object was to cover the battlefield — a field with different levels of terrain and a team base at each end — with more ink than the opposing team. Read more...