No Dead Rising anytime soon?, Nintendo you lyin' too? and New Red Faction game coming to XBLA and PSN before the Armageddon? What a great start of the week.
All this and more on today's gaming headlines.
DEAD RISING 2: DELAYED BY A MONTH
Dead Rising 2 has been delayed until September 28. A press release from Capcom mentioned the new date as an announcement, which is normal enough -- except that we already had an announced date of August 31 from the company's X10 event. Treating the new date with no mention of a delay is a bit odd, but September it is. 
No reason was given for the delay. Capcom could be giving the team extra time for polish, or the decision could be a strategic one. A late September release puts it in line with the bulk of titles targeting holiday sales, with enough time to drum up excitement and word-of-mouth before shoppers start invading stores. Putting it head-to-head against other autumn heavy-hitters might be showing a lot of faith in the game.
We still have no word on a release date for Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, but the download-only prologue should be hitting about a month before the full game. Now it's likely that Case Zero will be the one coming in August.
We still have no word on a release date for Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, but the download-only prologue should be hitting about a month before the full game. Now it's likely that Case Zero will be the one coming in August.
Makes you think, what else will be delayed in this action packed game filled year.
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3DS MAY BE OUT THIS YEAR?
THQ is planning to release a new Red Faction game on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network this summer, ahead of retail release Red Faction: Armageddon. t's not clear what exactly the download is, but THQ described it as a 'multi-faceted mini-game', so it's not the HD version of one of the original games that you might have expected.
And now, the continuing saga of the Nintendo 3DS release date. In our last adventure, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and dropped word that the handheld would be coming out "next year." Now we're finding out that his statement may not have been accurate. Kotaku reports that sources close to Nintendo's Japanese headquarters have called Fils-Aime's comments a "mistake." This would seem to indicate that next year is out of the question, and the system will come to the U.S. this holiday season as previously rumored. If that is the case, the earlier rumor stated that stock will be limited.
Of course, it could all be a bit of miscommunication between Nintendo's Japanese and American headquarters. Fils-Aime could've been accurate in his statement about 2011, and the sources in Japan are misunderstanding Nintendo's plan for a staggered territory release. We won't know until Nintendo says for sure, so it sounds like the company needs to sort out its messages internally. For now, this means the release year for the States is up in the air again.
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Just A Little Tease, Before The Real Thang
And now, the continuing saga of the Nintendo 3DS release date. In our last adventure, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and dropped word that the handheld would be coming out "next year." Now we're finding out that his statement may not have been accurate. Kotaku reports that sources close to Nintendo's Japanese headquarters have called Fils-Aime's comments a "mistake." This would seem to indicate that next year is out of the question, and the system will come to the U.S. this holiday season as previously rumored. If that is the case, the earlier rumor stated that stock will be limited.
Of course, it could all be a bit of miscommunication between Nintendo's Japanese and American headquarters. Fils-Aime could've been accurate in his statement about 2011, and the sources in Japan are misunderstanding Nintendo's plan for a staggered territory release. We won't know until Nintendo says for sure, so it sounds like the company needs to sort out its messages internally. For now, this means the release year for the States is up in the air again.
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Whatever it is exactly it'll be out 'three or four' months before Armageddon's release next March. 'What's interesting is that we will sell it to the fans, it will have content you can download that is TV show-related, it will build up to the new game and also we can use it to drive pre-orders, too; we can give codes and aspects of it, we can give the whole thing away,' said THQ's Danny Bilson.
The TV show he's referring to is a two-hour pilot on TV channel SyFy (yes, that's how they spell it now). In fact SyFy (I can't believe we had to type that twice) are co-producing the game with THQ.
THQ are keen to support all their new games with this sort of downloadable and multimedia approach, with Red Faction also getting a comic book and Saints Row 3 rumoured to be making its way to the silver screen with the help of 50 Cent.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
NO! I can't wait one more month for Dead Rising :(