Splatoon Global Testfire shoots blanks over the weekend

25 May 2015

Steve Wright

Over the weekend, the latest Splatoon Global Testfire became more of a misfire, with many users unable to connect to games.

Nintendo stated on their online status page that “Due to a high amount of online traffic, network services may be intermittently unavailable,” during the timed demo event.

In the end, network issues were cleared up and the Testfire was extended by an hour to give those connected a chance to play.

Did you try out the Testfire this weekend? How’d you go?

Splatoon invades the Wii U from 30 May.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.