"Who wants to pay for our game?"

High Voltage software was on hand at last weeks Game Developers Conference and was showing off Conduit 2, which is scheduled for release April 19. When asked by Siliconera about the status of The Grinder, Eric Stoli had this to say:

The Grinder wasn’t on display because the game is in “vertical slice status,” Eric Stoli, Level Designer, explained. Since High Voltage Software is still searching for a publisher the studio is waiting to see if they will need to change The Grinder by making it more action packed or perhaps adding RPG elements. Stoli specifically mentioned those points, the latter of which surprised me.

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Okay, a handful of versus fighters have already released for Wii. But this one, developed by High Voltage, hopes to bring the genre front and center to Wii. Published by Sega and rated teen, the game is scheduled for release this May.

In an IGN exclusive interview, High Voltage Software CEO and founder Kerry Ganofsky revealed Gladiator A.D., a fast paced, brutally violent action title designed exclusively for the Wii. (more…)

Esto no es bueno, mis amigos.

Nintendo World Report is reporting High Voltage Software’s Animales de la Muerte has been put on hold.

According to Chief Creative Officer Eric Nofsinger, High Voltage cannot fit the game into Nintendo’s size limitations for WiiWare games.

Nintendo does not approve games larger than 40 megabytes for inclusion onto the WiiWare service.

Nofsinger gave no plans for a future release, but Nintendo World Report claims the game will be a retail release if it is published.

Announced in Apr. 2008 for WiiWare, Animales de la Muerte places players in a Mexican zoo where animals are mysteriously dying and returning from the dead as zombies. As Marco and Maria Mendoza, the zookeeper’s grandchildren, players are tasked with killing the zombified animals and rescuing friendly, non-affected ones.

High Voltage Software is perhaps best known by Wii owners for The Conduit, but it has also released three games for WiiWare to date—V.I.P. Casino Blackjack, Gyrostarr and High Voltage Hot Rod Show.