{"id":5735,"date":"2022-08-25T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/25\/nintendo-confirms-that-splatoon-3s-shiver-identifies-as-female\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T09:15:13","slug":"nintendo-confirms-that-splatoon-3s-shiver-identifies-as-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/25\/nintendo-confirms-that-splatoon-3s-shiver-identifies-as-female\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Confirms That Splatoon 3&#8217;s Shiver Identifies As Female"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Confirmation fresh from Nintendo of America.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/random-splatoon-3s-shiver-appears-to-be-nintendos-first-major-non-binary-character\">Last week<\/a>, we reported on fan speculation that Shiver, a member of the band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/deep-cut-splatoon-3s-new-musical-hosts-take-over-from-pearl-and-marina\">Deep Cut<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a> and one of a trio of new announcers in the game, could potentially be Nintendo&#8217;s first major non-binary character. Compelling evidence from the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/everything-announced-in-the-latest-splatoon-3-direct-new-stuff-3-player-turf-wars-and-rewards-for-splatoon-2-players\">Splatoon 3 Direct<\/a> suggested that gender-specific language was deliberately avoided across multiple localised versions of trailers and clips for the upcoming game.<\/p>\n<p>Many fans were pleased to see this small but significant step forward for inclusivity and representation in first-party Nintendo games, and it seemed unlikely to be a coincidence. However, Nintendo has now confirmed that Shiver identifies as female and will use she\/her pronouns in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/nintendo-confirms-that-splatoon-3s-shiver-identifies-as-female\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Nintendo Confirms That Splatoon 3&#8217;s Shiver Identifies As Female<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Confirmation fresh from Nintendo of America.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/random-splatoon-3s-shiver-appears-to-be-nintendos-first-major-non-binary-character\">Last week<\/a>, we reported on fan speculation that Shiver, a member of the band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/deep-cut-splatoon-3s-new-musical-hosts-take-over-from-pearl-and-marina\">Deep Cut<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a> and one of a trio of new announcers in the game, could potentially be Nintendo&#8217;s first major non-binary character. Compelling evidence from the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/everything-announced-in-the-latest-splatoon-3-direct-new-stuff-3-player-turf-wars-and-rewards-for-splatoon-2-players\">Splatoon 3 Direct<\/a> suggested that gender-specific language was deliberately avoided across multiple localised versions of trailers and clips for the upcoming game.<\/p>\n<p>Many fans were pleased to see this small but significant step forward for inclusivity and representation in first-party Nintendo games, and it seemed unlikely to be a coincidence. However, Nintendo has now confirmed that Shiver identifies as female and will use she\/her pronouns in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/nintendo-confirms-that-splatoon-3s-shiver-identifies-as-female\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5736,"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\/5735"}],"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=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}