Redding, CA – February 6, 2010 – SUNSOFT, a division of SUNCORPORATION (JASDAQ: 6736), has today announced that BLASTER MASTER™:OVERDRIVE will be available in North America on February 8th for WiiWare.
BLASTER MASTER™:OVERDRIVE is an action-shooting game that takes place on an Earth infected by an aggressive, polymorphic virus. Poor, defenseless animals worldwide infected by the virus have been turned into flesh-eating, hemoglobin-swilling terrors. Fortunately, the world has Alex. And, even more coincidentally, he happens to be one of the world’s foremost biologists – specializing in viral mutation profiles and genetic manipulation.
– 200 points
– Action RPG
– DSiWare version of From the Abyss
– Setting is in randomly generated dungeons
– Use Soul Capture attack to take skills/magic from enemies
– Boss is at the end of the dungeon
– Power up the character by mixing skills and equipment
– This download contains the “first chapter”
– Called Bass Fishing Wii World Tournament
– Releasing April 28
– Tournaments
– Time attack modes
– Online play (4 player battles)
– Full use of Wii MotionPlus
Reader Zelos has sent a bunch of information our way regarding Nintendo’s rumored platform announcement at GDC. For those who missed out on the original story, there was some unconfirmed speculation earlier this week from “an employee at a major international publisher” that Nintendo has a platform announcement in store for GDC. Now the latest news is that Ubisoft and THQ might be hinting at that same revelation next month. I’ll let Zelos explain…
“I’m a member of the Dutch website www.Wii-DS.nl (I’m sure you’ve heard about them before: they’re the biggest Nintendo-website in the Benelux and often come up with exclusive news like European releasedates and screenshots. They’ve had exclusives like the PAL-releasedate of Mario Kart Wii and Fire Emblem DS and they had the first exclusive screenshots from Excitebots…something remarkably was posted on their forum today. The Ubisoft Benelux Brand Manager named Leon Winkler, registered himself a while ago on the Wii-DS.nl forum to answer questions about Red Steel 2 personally. After a while, the questions were also related to other game-stuff and right after the presented rumor of Nintendo’s next platform, the following question came up on the forum, in Dutch:
“Oh en Leon heb je al gehoord van de sappige roddel dat Nintendo tijden GDC 2010 een “nieuw platform” gaat aankondigen? DS2 lijkt me niet logisch aangezien de DSI XL dan net op de markt is. De meeste tekenen gaan naar een revamp van de Wii (WiiHD anyone?). Schijnt gelekt te zijn door een “medewerker van een grote internationale publisher”, ben jij die medewerker toevallig Leon?”
The literal translation:
Nintendo Wii
North America: 1. Just Dance (Ubisoft)
2. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
3. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
4. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
5. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
Japan:
1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
2. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
3. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
4. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)
5. BioHazard: The Darkside Chronicles (Capcom)
UK:
1. Just Dance (Ubisoft)
2. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)
3. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
4. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
5. EA Sports Active (Electronic Arts)
Nintendo DS
North America:
1. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
2. Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
3. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)
4. Scribblenauts (Warner Bros.
5. Bejeweled Twist (PopCap)
Japan:
1. Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi (Square Enix)
2. Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo)
3. Zelda no Densetsu: Daichi no Kiteki (Nintendo)
4. Dragon Quest IX: Hoshizora no Mamoribito (Square Enix)
5. Livly Garden (Marvelous)
UK:
1. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (Nintendo)
2. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
3. Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)
4. Peppa Pig: The Game (Ubisoft)
5. Junior Brain Trainer DS (Avanquest)
Tetsuya Nomura, the creator of Kingdom Hearts, was interviewed in the latest edition of Famitsu. We’ve posted details from the interview below.
– The first design of Sora was of him being a lion with a tail, Nomura wanted him to be like a Disney character
– Idea of having the chainsaw as a weapon came before the keyblade idea
– Sora’s tail was drop during the development of FFVIII, a character in FFIX had a tail and therefore Sora lost his tail
– Sora’s shoes and pants were added when Nomura was discussing the character with Disney
– Sora will be in future games
– Nomura isn’t sure what the future work will be
– Nomura believes Birth By Sleep shows that the Kingdom Hearts Osaka dev team has similar ability to create a quality KH title
– Kingdom Hearts 3 will be implemented as soon as possible
Thanks to Chase for the news tip!
This is one of the strangest rumors I’ve ever lately. NGamer has posted some messages on their Twitter account claiming Sonic will be playable in Super Mario Galaxy 2. That speculation apparently comes “from a trusted source.” NGamer also said that Sonic will have his own levels in the Green Hill Galaxy. This definitely seems fake to me, but then again, stranger things have happened.
“We’ve just had some shocking news from an inside source at Nintendo: Sonic will be a playable character in Mario Galaxy 2! Wha?…More teasing from our insider: Sonic levels will be in ‘Green Hill Galaxy’…”
