{"id":127828,"date":"2022-09-04T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-137094"},"modified":"2022-09-04T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T19:00:00","slug":"uh-oh-splatoon-3-appears-to-have-leaked-online-ahead-of-its-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/04\/uh-oh-splatoon-3-appears-to-have-leaked-online-ahead-of-its-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh-Oh, Splatoon 3 Appears To Have Leaked Online Ahead Of Its Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/63735b50246d0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/63735b50246d0\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Splatoon 3\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/63735b50246d0\/splatoon-3.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/63735b50246d0\/splatoon-3.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Splatoon 3\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It seems another first-party Switch game has leaked a week out from release. This time it&#8217;s the team-based shooter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you head over to the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/splatoon\/\">Splatoon subreddit<\/a>, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/splatoon\/comments\/x5g5rh\/our_stance_on_all_splatoon_3_spoilers_as_of_4th\/\">social media or YouTube<\/a>, you should be able to see all sorts of spoilers related to the game&#8217;s story mode &#8211; including boss leaks and more. The same subreddit is making an effort to shutdown any spoilers.<\/p>\n<p>Some players have been able to get hold of retail copies early and from there the flood gates have seemingly opened. There are now also reports about the game&#8217;s files being dumped on PC, with cracked versions of the game already circulating online.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-oembed\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/splatoon\/comments\/x59r4y\/just_bought_a_copy_from_somebody_who_got_it_early\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3 @ 2022-09-04T19:53:56+01:00 --> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/splatoon\/comments\/x59r4y\/just_bought_a_copy_from_somebody_who_got_it_early\/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share\">Just bought a copy from somebody who got it early<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/splatoon\/\">splatoon<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Keep in mind, the servers for the Switch game&#8217;s multiplayer won&#8217;t be live until 9th September. Switch leaks like this have previously happened to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/paper_mario_the_origami_king\">Paper Mario<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_dread\">Metroid Dread<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_brilliant_diamond_and_shining_pearl\">Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> games and more recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_3\">Xenoblade Chronicles 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It just means you&#8217;ll have to be careful from here on out if you do plan on experiencing the game&#8217;s story mode spoiler free.<\/p>\n<p><em>If we hear any updates, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo It seems another first-party Switch game has leaked a week out from release. This time it&#8217;s the team-based shooter Splatoon 3. If you head over to the Splatoon subreddit, social media or YouTube, you should be able to see all sorts of spoilers related to the game&#8217;s story mode &#8211; including boss leaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}