{"id":5392,"date":"2022-08-19T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/random-mobile-game-spotted-using-official-nintendo-imagery\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T12:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:19:27","slug":"random-mobile-game-spotted-using-official-nintendo-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/random-mobile-game-spotted-using-official-nintendo-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Mobile Game Spotted Using Official Nintendo Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By an ex-Nintendo veteran, no less!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mobile companies are often known to embellish marketing materials to make their games more appealing to prospective audiences. This includes running ads featuring misleading gameplay, hiring influencers to run over-the-top promos, and &#8211; in this case &#8211; using imagery from other IP entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220819-15075\/\">Automaton<\/a>, a mobile game called <strong>Battle Warship: State War.io<\/strong> has been spotted using official Nintendo imagery from its 3DS eShop title, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds-eshop\/steel_diver_sub_wars\">Steel Diver: Sub Wars<\/a>. It wasn&#8217;t spotted by your average gamer either, but rather Sub Wars&#8217; director and ex-Nintendo veteran <strong>Takaya Imamura<\/strong> &#8211; <em>awkward!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/random-mobile-game-spotted-using-official-nintendo-imagery\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Random: Mobile Game Spotted Using Official Nintendo Imagery<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>By an ex-Nintendo veteran, no less!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mobile companies are often known to embellish marketing materials to make their games more appealing to prospective audiences. This includes running ads featuring misleading gameplay, hiring influencers to run over-the-top promos, and &#8211; in this case &#8211; using imagery from other IP entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220819-15075\/\">Automaton<\/a>, a mobile game called <strong>Battle Warship: State War.io<\/strong> has been spotted using official Nintendo imagery from its 3DS eShop title, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds-eshop\/steel_diver_sub_wars\">Steel Diver: Sub Wars<\/a>. It wasn&#8217;t spotted by your average gamer either, but rather Sub Wars&#8217; director and ex-Nintendo veteran <strong>Takaya Imamura<\/strong> &#8211; <em>awkward!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/random-mobile-game-spotted-using-official-nintendo-imagery\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}