Rumors
GameStop, Wal-Mart breaking Wii street dates
Santa Claus is filling his bag with major holiday Wii titles a little early this year, but there’s a problem. He’s not allowed to have them yet. Rayman Raving Rabbids: TV Party and Animal Crossing: City Folk are hitting the streets early at select GameStop and Wal-Mart stores. Beneficiaries of the early sales are showing proof of their purchases across the Web. Both Wii Fanboy and GoNi...
Aykroyd: Atari to publish Ghostbusters in 2009
Given the secretive nature of major game announcements, you can bet someone at Atari is shouting: “What did you do, Ray?!” Speaking to Dallas radio station 105.3 KLLI, Dan Aykroyd revealed Tuesday the Ghostbusters video game has been picked up by Atari. According to Kotaku, Aykroyd said the game is about “a year away” from being released. Though the high-profile game was or...
Sources: Nintendo privately demos Wii HD hardware
Veteran games journalist John Davidson reports today that a select group of incredibly lucky developers have seen, touched and commentated on a new hardware offering from Nintendo, unofficially dubbed “Wii HD.” The hardware is scheduled to arrive in 2011, and is “characterized as similar to ‘the shift from Game Boy to Game Boy Advance,’ where familiar, key elements we...
Nintendo to reveal franchise revival this week
Gamekyo today dropped a preemptive Nintendo megaton. The site formerly known as Jeux France reports today Nintendo will be making at least one major game announcement at its fall press conference later this week. According to Gamekyo, the game is a revival of “an old franchise that everyone is waiting for.” Nintendo announced this week’s press conference on Sept. 17. Nintendo off...
Sequel to The Conduit already in the works?
The best Wii game you’ve never played may already have a sequel. During an interview with IGN, High Voltage Software’s Eric Nofsinger suggested a sequel to The Conduit, one of the most highly anticipated games of 2009, may already be in early planning and development. “I think you guys will be happy with the publisher we’ve landed with because they’re big believers in...
Rumor: Famitsu confirms RE2 “Wii-make”
According to an information leak on Japanese forum 2ch, the latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed an exclusive “Wii-make” of Resident Evil 2 is in development from Capcom. A term often confused with “port,” the important word here is “remake.” The rumor maintains Capcom is fully rebuilding the decade-old game on Wii, implementing additional story elements, an ev...
Supposed Sadness footage rises amidst vapor
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRe8Ac4RGhI[/youtube] Binge Gamer posted Thursday supposed first footage of Sadness, Polish developer Nibris’ exclusive Wii survival horror title. And the collective Wii hardcore, taken aback, let out a gasp!
GTA on Wii possible for fall 2009, might use San Andreas engine
That’s a headline full of maybe and “might” up there, but since all we’re going on is a wisp of a shadow of a rumor this evening, that’s all it’s entitled to get. Anyway, Grand Theft Auto could be headed to the Wii in fall 2009, and it would use the San Andreas engine (no word on whether or not that means Hot Coffee or what). Says N4G.com (sprinkled with copious...
Zoinks?! Kid Icarus Wii a no-show for E3?!
We are only an hour away from the Nintendo E3 press conference, and speculation has reached maximum overdrive. After divulging information to the contrary for weeks, IGN’s Matt Casamassina has slipped that the hotly anticipated Kid Icarus revival on Wii may not be coming at E3. GoNintendo has his quote: “Uh-oh. Looks like we’re going to have to wait a little longer than E3 to see...
Update: Rumor: Wii Hard Drive Spotting
As of right now this picture is rumored to be the solution of all our Virtual Console problems. The mythical “Wii hard drive”. As of right now this picture has no real definite source or any solid backing credentials other than it just happened to appear in my E-mail by an anonymous tipster. Could this truly be the answer to our solutions, or is this just another falsity with the sudde...
Update: Chrono Trigger DS Confirmed
[Note: Picture of Guardia is from an unofficial and canceled remake of chrono trigger] With all these Final Fantasy remakes hitting the DS the time of Chrono Trigger might be upon us. As of right now there is a rumor spreading across the internet of a possible “Remake” of Chrono Trigger in the works by square and we can only hope it is a slightly graphically improved version. The rumor...