Nintendo’s latest AAA game releases this week, and you’ll be able to check it out for free ahead of its highly anticipated launch.

It’s fair to say that when it comes to first-party AAA releases, Nintendo more often than not knocks it out of the park, whether it’s Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, Donkey Kong and more.

In 2015, Nintendo launched the new third-person multiplayer shooter, Splatoon. In Splatoon, players are pitted against each other in teams of two. Yet, rather than killing each other, the first team to paint the map with their team colours wins. It’s quite possibly the most family-friendly and wholesome shooter ever.

The success of Splatoon would then spawn two sequels in 2017 and 2022, respectively, with each game improving on its chaotic multiplayer shenanigans. However, this year, we’re getting a new game in the series that focuses more on the story over competitive multiplayer, that game is Splatoon Raiders, and you can play it exclusively in US retailers, Walmart and Best Buy, as well as EB Games in Canada.

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Where are the Splatoon Raiders stores located?

The Splatoon Raiders stations can be found in Walmart, Best Buy and EB Games in the following:

Splatoon Raiders hits #NintendoSwitch2 July 23rd, featuring:

✅ Deep Cut
✅ Gadgets
✅ Salmonids (uh-oh!)
✅ Treasure!

Get ready for more details in the Splatoon Raiders Direct, coming June 30th! pic.twitter.com/eY07oNmRw3

— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) June 10, 2026

Best Buy

British Columbia

• Burnaby (Unit 200-6200 McKay Avenue)
• Coquitlam (2929 Barnet Highway #2140)
• Surrey (12048 80th Avenue)
• Vancouver (8133 Ontario Street)
• West Vancouver (2100 Park Royal Shopping Ctr)

Alberta

• Calgary (901 17th Ave SW)
• Calgary (350 Stewart Green SW)
• Calgary (5111 Northland Dr NW #350)
• Edmonton (13924 137 Ave NW)
• Edmonton (10304 109th St NW)

Ontario

• East Gwillimbury (175 Green Lane E)
• Etobicoke (167 North Queen St)
• Markham (5000 Highway 7 E Unit 2070L)
• Oakville (2500 Winston Park Dr Unit A)
• Scarborough (50 Ashtonbee Rd Unit 2)

Quebec

• Anjou (7999 Bd Des Galeries D'Anjou - #Y-008H)
• Brossard (8480 Boul Leduc Unit 100)
• Gatineau (920 Boulevard Maloney Ouest)
• Lasalle (7077 Boul. Newman)
• Laval (1560 Boulevard le Corbusier)

Walmart

British Columbia

• Langley (20202 66 Ave)
• North Vancouver (925 Marine Dr)
• Richmond (9251 Alderbridge Way)

Alberta

• Airdrie (2881 Main St SW)
• Calgary (1110 57 Ave NE)
• Calgary (1212 37 St SW)
• Edmonton (18521 Stony Plain Rd)
• Edmonton (6110 Currents Dr NW)
• Edmonton (13703 40th St NW)
• Fort Saskatchewan (9551 87 Ave)
• Spruce Grove (90 Campsite Rd)

Ontario

• Bowmanville (2320 Durham Regional Hwy 2)
• Kingston (1130 Midland Ave)
• London (1280 Fanshawe Park Rd W)
• Niagara Falls (7481 Oakwood Dr)
• Orillia (175 Murphy Rd)
• Scarborough (1900 Eglinton Avenue E)
• Toronto (900 Dufferin St)
• Windsor (7100 Tecumseh Rd E)
• Woodstock (499 Norwich Ave)

Quebec

• Beauport (224 Joseph Casavant Ave)
• Joliette (1505 Bd Firestone)
• Longueuil (1999 Roland-therrien)
• Ville de Québec (1700 Boul Lebourgneuf)
• Saint-Eustache (764 Arthur Sauve Boul)

What’s the story of Splatoon Raiders?

“Play as the mechanic, working with Deep Cut – a trio of swashbuckling musicians – and venture out into the mysterious Spirhalite Islands in search of treasure! Customise your character, kit yourself out with mechanical Gadgets and a host of ink-flinging weapons, and take on waves of foes called Salmonids,” reads the synopsis of the game.

“A member of Deep Cut will accompany you in a powerful construct called the Exploration Bot to help fend off enemies and gather up the loot! Bring your haul back to camp, upgrade your gear, then head out on the hunt for even more treasure!”

Splatoon Raiders releases exclusively on the Nintendo Switch 2 on Thursday, July 23. Hopefully, there’ll be a demo to download on the eShop around launch. Fingers crossed.

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However, it’s not for everyone. Many have taken issue with Ubisoft laying off its Barcelona studio after a successful launch, flooding the game with microtransactions, and others are even arguing the original just feels better to play.

Those are all fair criticisms, but something we’re personally missing is the old multiplayer mode. Fortunately, Last Pirates: Die Together has a free demo with perfect timing.

Last Pirates: Die Together takes notes from classic ‘friendslop’ games like Peak, Content Warning and REPO especially. The game looks like a REPO clone but with a nautical twist, as it follows you and your friends looting pirate ships filled with shiny treasures, but also dangerous monsters.

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The visuals alone should convince you that this a goofy game that shouldn’t be taken seriously.

Your colourful bean-like avatars have long, wiggly arms designed to scoop up anything that isn’t nailed down, and like REPO the facial expressions are always good for a laugh.

You can even unwind with a game of cards after a successful, or unsuccessful heist, something you can’t even do in the latest Assassin’s Creed game.

Of course, the game is only as good as the crew you’re playing with, so if you’re a solo-gamer or only have one friend to play with, this game might not be for you.

However, if you can rustle up a team, you’re more than welcome to try the free demo which is out now on PC via Steam.

The full game is yet to release, but a launch is scheduled for August 18 exclusively for PC. There’s no word on whether it’ll get a console port later down the line.

It’s a ‘Friendslop’ future

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Xbox for instance has had a couple of wins, with RV There Yet? joining the Xbox Game Pass line-up. There’s also a horror game on the way about defending a petrol station from things that go bump in the night.

There are plenty of other examples, but none of the heavy-hitters like Peak, REPO and Lethal Company have made the jump from PC yet.

Even the latest games taking over TikTok like MECCHA CHAMELEON are out of reach for console owners, when they’d make a killing if Xbox or PlayStation swooped in to help with publishing.

Perhaps that’s the kicker though. Would these indie co-op experiences suffer by being on so many different platforms? Maybe the real charm of these games is how they’ll run on even the most basic PC setups.

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