Hudson has released some new details on its upcoming WiiWare-game Alien Crush Returns. The WiiRemote will be used to tilt the table, and if you shake it too much the table will freeze and TILT just like a real pinball machine. There’s different types of pinballs, every ball will have its own abilities. There will be extra downloadable content coming with more power-ups, tables and more. Alien Crush Returns is due to come out this August in Japan for 800 Wii Points.
In an interview with 1UP Kenichiro Yuji, game director at Square-Enix, said that they’re not planning to release more downloadable content for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King. All downloadable content has been available since May 30th, and they don’t have any plans for more future content at the moment.
There have been a lot of rumors that LostWinds get a sequel, but now there’s even more hints to a sequel on the WiiWare-title LostWinds. In an interview with Frontier, Cubed3 asked a few questions about their future plans and it sure looks like they’re planning a sequel for LostWinds. Head over to the full interview to learn more about Frontier’s future plans.
Nintendojo reports that Capcom has confirmed that Mega Man 9 will support the WiiRemote held sideways, but the GameCube- and Classic-controllers can be used as well. Owners of a Wii NES RetroPort adapter can probably use it to play with the original NES-controller, but there’s no confirmation on that yet.
Helix, a rhythm game for Nintendo’s WiiWare developed by the Texas based Ghostfire Games, will be coming out soon and that’s why they released this interesting developer interview. In Helix, players follow the movements of a robot avatar in a selection of 26 songs gathered from independent musicians accros the US and Europe. A release date for Helix hasn’t been determined yet.
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipe of Darkness, the first episode of the Penny Arcade Adventures games from Hothead, is now available for Xbox Live Arcade and is coming to Sony’s PlayStation Network as well. Unfortunately we won’t be seeing Penny Arcade Adventures games in WiiWare because the developers need a higher WiiWare-limit or a hard drive for the Wii.
Ralph Egas: Potpourrii is about a forest, some leprechauns, a warlock with a desire for chaos and friendly spirits that are aligned specifically to the four seasons. In an old tree stump the leprechauns gather spirits and ‘retire’ them towards the tree every year to keep the magic tree in shape. The tree basically represents the life of the forest. This is just how things have been handled for ever since everyone can remember. Now every once in a while an evil warlock comes along and starts conjuring some evil magic effectively changing the order of time in a random fashion. As a result the spirits arrive in irregular order and the leprechauns have a hard time collecting and reordering. That’s basically where you come in. You use a cannon to pickup spirits and order them in the pool set in the tree stump before retiring the spirits properly. Your main goal is offering proper spirits in order to cure the tree.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the game is not coming out tomorrow.
What IGN said is true - we have submitted the game to Nintendo, and as soon as we get approval from them, it will be released quickly after that. We really are in the home stretch. We’ve been waiting to announce a release date until we have that approval, though, because until that happens, well, anything can happen!Read the rest of this entry »
“I’m definitely interested in WiiWare and I think it’s one of the areas that 2D can still be very strong at. I’m very much looking into that.” - Koji Igarashi, Castlevania head-honcho
Well, hopefully we’ll get away from the Castlevania fighters, and get back into the 2D castlevania games. Personally, I don’t care if they come out on WiiWare as long as they’re good games.
Some snippets from a Siliconera interview with Yasuhiro Wada, President of Marvelous Interactive in Japan…
S: Will we get games like Lux Pain or Flower, Sun and Rain, which are being published by Rising Star Europe, in the USA?
YW: We don’t know who is going to publish them yet. They might be published by Marvelous USA or licensed out to another publisher so we can’t talk about those two titles yet.
