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Nintendo released a single screenshot of Monolith Soft's Disaster: Day of Crisis, the natural-disaster survival game announced at E3 2006. We now have our first indication of how the game will play-- that arrow suggests a Quick Timer Event. Whether that means an action/adventure game with occasional quick-button-press segments, or a Dragon's Lair-style game, we don't know. What is surprising even to us is that we're kind of hoping for the latter. We miss those laserdisc games! Are we the only ones?

And you know what that means ... new games! Unfortunately, it looks like Nintendo has one hell of a hangover (we can't blame them, we were up till 6 AM ourselves), and they only managed to spit out two rather inauspicious titles: Baseball and Urban Champion, both for the NES. After five hundred points each, we maintain that both playing baseball and punching someone in the face are both far more enjoyable in real life in Wii Sports.

And by the way, fellow fanboys, Happy New Year! Did your megaton party involve raucous Wii-playing? As you know, there was a more important countdown in Times Square around a month and a half ago, so if you played right through midnight, wish yourself a happy belated 2007 and check the ball-drop on your TiVo. Just kidding. We know you've already erased that to make room for the next episode of Heroes.

IGN recently interviewed Monolith Soft's president, Hirohide Sugiura about their Wii game Disaster: Day of Crisis. Sugiura had little to nothing to tell about the game and kept requesting IGN to wait for more information, be patient or ask Nintendo themselves. Hmm...

Honestly the game sounds a bit like that movie that came out in 2004. The US is in danger of a lot of natural disasters and instead of watching people die or survive them, we play as someone trying to survive. Sounds interesting but we still don't know a lot about the game and all we are getting is:

• "Please wait for detailed information about Disaster to be disclosed in the future"
• "Please ask Nintendo for the timing when it can be revealed"

Call us mean but we are fanboys and girls and we demand satisfaction! Plus anything that has to do with the Wii we have to know. Especially if it means running from tidal waves and racing cars to avoid liquid hot magma.

An Australian retail supplier recently released a listing containing a release date for the Wii to Aussie retailers according to Aussie Nintendo. The listing, which is shown above and the blokes over there were kind enough to save, does not list a price, instead providing a release date of 11/30/06. Seeing as how gamers from down under received their DS Lites first, are we to believe that they'll be getting the Wii first as well? Not very likely considering Iwata's statements of wanting to get the console on the market before the US celebrates Turkey Day.

[Via Go Nintendo]