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Splatoon Raiders hits the Switch 2 in July

A screenshot from the video game Splatoon Raiders.

The squid kids will be back this summer. Nintendo announced this morning that Splatoon Raiders, a single-player spinoff of its competitive shooter series, will launch on the Nintendo Switch 2 on July 23rd. It'll be the first new entry in the series since Splatoon 3 in 2022.

In addition to the date, Nintendo also released a new trailer that gives a better idea of what Raiders will actually play like. Essentially, it looks like it retains the same ink-focused shooter gameplay - and killer soundtrack - from the main series, but translates it to a new campaign. That said, while Nintendo describes the game as "single-player-focused," Raiders doe …

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