{"id":5880,"date":"2022-08-27T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/27\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-27th\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T09:27:09","slug":"talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-27th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/27\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-27th\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 27th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ladies and gentlemen, The Weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As the great Captain Haddock once said, &#8216;what a week, huh?&#8217; It seems that in the run-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a>&#8216;s release, Nintendo has been hitting us with inky news left, right and centre (<strong>splaturation<\/strong>, if you will). This week, we got a chance to go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/hands-on-splatoon-3-brings-new-ideas-but-nothing-revolutionary\">hands-on<\/a> with the upcoming game, and we are sure that some of you will be doing the same this weekend as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/psa-splatoon-3s-splatfest-world-premiere-demo-is-now-live\">Splatfest World Premier demo<\/a> is now available to download from the Switch eShop.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/watch-gamescom-opening-night-live-2022\">Gamescom Opening Night Live<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/watch-nintendo-treehouse-live-presentation-august-2022-splatoon-3-and-harvestella\">Nintendo Treehouse<\/a> presentation has got us looking towards the future, you might wish to take a smaller scale approach to this weekend&#8217;s gaming with both the mouse-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/islets\">Islets<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/rite\">RITE<\/a> scurrying onto Switch consoles.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-27th\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 27th)<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ladies and gentlemen, The Weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As the great Captain Haddock once said, &#8216;what a week, huh?&#8217; It seems that in the run-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a>&#8216;s release, Nintendo has been hitting us with inky news left, right and centre (<strong>splaturation<\/strong>, if you will). This week, we got a chance to go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/hands-on-splatoon-3-brings-new-ideas-but-nothing-revolutionary\">hands-on<\/a> with the upcoming game, and we are sure that some of you will be doing the same this weekend as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/psa-splatoon-3s-splatfest-world-premiere-demo-is-now-live\">Splatfest World Premier demo<\/a> is now available to download from the Switch eShop.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/watch-gamescom-opening-night-live-2022\">Gamescom Opening Night Live<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/watch-nintendo-treehouse-live-presentation-august-2022-splatoon-3-and-harvestella\">Nintendo Treehouse<\/a> presentation has got us looking towards the future, you might wish to take a smaller scale approach to this weekend&#8217;s gaming with both the mouse-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/islets\">Islets<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/rite\">RITE<\/a> scurrying onto Switch consoles.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-27th\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5881,"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\/5880"}],"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=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}