During E3 of last year, my jaw hit the floor with a resounding thud as Golden Sun: Dark Dawn was announced for the Nintendo DS. I loved both Golden Sun games for the GBA and had been anticipating a sequel for years.
Unfortunately, the actual release was far off, and we’ve had to sit patiently with “Holiday 2010″ as a tentative release date. Until now.
According to a rumour suggestion on VG247 today, Nintendo has being informing UK publishers that Nintendo’s 3DS console will be hitting UK shelves in March.
Nintendo UK official response was, “That’s rumour and speculation as we’ve not announced any date for 3DS,”
Whatever the case, we definitely won’t be seeing the 3D-enabled handheld until 2011.
Eoji Aonuma has told ONM today that they are currently looking for a solid “early 2011″ release date for Zelda: Skyward Sword.
“The basis we have now is very, very solid,” said Aonuma, the game’s producer. “Early 2011 – that is what we’re aiming for.”
Nintendo has always had a “It’ll be done when its done” approach to their games, and this always leads to high quality, industry defining games being released at the end of the day. Take as long as you need, Aonuma!
BioWare boss Ray Muzyka has confirmed today that Dragon Age 2 will be flying down to nest on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in March next year.
Dragon Age 2’s story will different from the previous game, and even past BioWare games, in that its story will span ten years. Also, instead of a pre-made character, this time around you will be in control of a gender-neutral character called Hawke, “a penniless refugee who rises to power to become the single most important character in the world of Dragon Age.”
The announcement was made on the game’s official Facebook page:
“May The Fourth be with you, since it will be Unleashed Oct 26th, 2010!”
We don’t know if this is for the US only, but we assume it is. So The Force Unleashed fans can mark the calendar and rejoice.
Sony has just announced that a new God of War title, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, will be coming to the PSP later in the year.
The game is being developed by Ready at Dawn, who were also responsible for the previous God of War PSP title, Chains of Olympus, so expect more of the same bite-sized armageddon in the palm of your hand.
The game will apparently contain “25 percent more gameplay”, an improved weapon system, and new abilities not seen in the franchise before. Its story will be a prequel, chronicling Kratos’ journey to become the God of War.
We’ll have some screenshots up soon.
Blizzard have just dated their highly anticipated RTS, aiming for a summer release. Starcraft II: The Wings of Liberty will be released to the masses at July 27th. Blizzard is notorious for pushing releases back again and again until it’s completely polished, but they don’t often shy away once they have nailed a date down like this.
This is significantly ahead of the of the usual wave of releases that occurrs later in the year, and with good reason. StarCraft II is a release that’s banking almost 100% on the “hardcore” crowd, and much less on Best Buy customers needing a Christmas gift for their teenage son.
The “Wings of Liberty” subtitle means that this release has the Terran campaign, with campaigns for the other two races to come at an unknown later date, but I would estimate we wont see the next one for at least 2011. Don’t worry though, there is still a complete multiplayer component with all three races.
I have posted up my first impression of the multiplayer beta, and will continue to do so until the game comes out, and maybe even after.
Catch the press release after the cut.
Rising Star Games has just confirmed that No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle will be hitting the UK on May 28th for Wii, having originally been due for a unspecified April release.
“We’re really excited to announce the official European release date No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle,” said managing director of Rising Star Games Martin Defries in the recent PR release, “The original became a cult hit on the Wii when it released four years ago and the sequel is set to attract an army of new followers.”
Although it doesn’t have a confirmed western release date, the PS3 / 360 version the original No More Heroes is out in Japan on April 15th.
Bad news, MGS fans – Konami has told CVG that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker won’t be hitting the UK as soon as we thought it would – the release date for the game in the UK has slipped from May 28th to June 18th.
No reason was provided for the game’s delay, and us US release appears to be unaffected. They probably forgot to replace all those words that have an extra “u” in them in the Queen’s English, or something.
We’ll keep you updated.
Shinji Mikami’s upcoming third person shooter Vanquish has just been confirmed for release this winter by SEGA’s release schedule.
Vanquish is being developed by Platinum Games, the same developer who gave us Madworld for the Wii and the face meltingly awesome Bayonetta this January.
The game tells a story about a war between Russia and the US. Energy resources are scare, so the US built a space station to harness energy from the sun. Russia promply hijacks said space station and uses it to destroy San Fransisco. Special forces (that is, the player character Sam and his fellow soldiers) gets sent in.
Those looking to kill some Ruskies can mark their calendars for winter. The game will most likely hit sometime around Christmas, seeing as no Call of Duty has been announced just yet.
Finally! Crackdown 2 has just received an official release date in the UK. The title will be hitting shelves in the country on July 9.
Ruffian’s also released the first ViDoc for the game.
A summer release was originally mentioned a few months ago by Ruffian Games, but this is the first confirmation of an exact release date.
Full press release after the cut.
Another one of the big games being talked about during Nintendo’s Media Summit was Metroid: Other M.
Nintendo could confirm the report from IGN Australia and dated Metroid: Other M for a release date of June 27 in the US. Unfortunately nothing was said of a European release date.
“When you finish playing this, you’re going to feel like you know Samus in a way you’ve never known her before,” said Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway.
That certainly sounds awesome. So mark your calendars for June 27.
When we received word earlier today that Super Mario Galaxy 2 would be released before Christmas this year, we didn’t think they meant quite this early… Nintendo has just confirmed at its San Francisco media summit that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be hitting stores in the US on May 23.
The release date was revealed by Nintendo of America executive Cammie Dunaway at the summit mere minutes before this story was posted.
So much for a “summer” release date. Looks like some of us will have a reason to get our Wiis out of the back of the dust closet a little earlier than expected.
Chatting at its media summit in San Francisco today, Nintendo has announced that the DSi XL will being launch in the US on March 28, with a price tag of $189.
The colours available for the DSi XL will be red, black and wine. Yes, strangely, there is no white version.
The DSi XL is a larger version of the DSi, which was a refitted version of the DS Lite, while was a a smaller version of the original DS… which kind of makes the whole act of making the DSi larger a little redundant, don’t you think?
I officially dub today “Nintendo Newsday”.
[UPDATE] Super Mario Galaxy has a confirmed release date of May 23
Well this certainly is surprising. According to a report from IGN Australia, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Other M are not going to be Christmas releases.
Nintendo Australia’s Greg Arhurton confirmed that both titles were not holiday season releases, but are due for release between June and August of this year.
Keep in mind that this has not yet been confirmed, but more details should surface soon as Nintendo’s holding a press event in the US today.
