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Real Heroes: Firefighter finds real publisher

Posted May 12th 2008 9:30AM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News

Conspiracy Entertainment obviously wants to ensure that there'll be none of this fake hero business on the Wii, because it's gone and signed up Epicenter Studios' Real Heroes: Firefighter, which it intends to release in the U.S. during Q2, 2009. Because it's been almost a year since we heard anything about the project, this morning's press release kindly reminds us that Real Heroes: Firefighter will utilize the Wii Remote as a fire hose, a fire axe, and a crowbar, all in the name of fighting Epicenter's proprietary "Thinking Fire" technology.

Conspiracy CFO Keith Tanaka was also on hand with some quotes about product line-ups and distribution, for which we thank him and move on.

[Via press release]

Hold the hose real tight and get ready for a real fight

Posted Jun 22nd 2007 10:30AM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News

A new developer called Epicenter Games is developing a non-violent firefighting action-puzzle game for the Wii, called Real Heroes: Firefighters. The title should help prevent confusion with those other Real American Heroes. Real Heroes casts players as a new firefighter in a busy station, and, of course, uses the Wiimote to simulate a fire hose.

The game makes use of what Epicenter calls "Thinking Fire," which will totally beat you at Othello react unexpectedly and semi-randomly to your actions. The game doesn't have a publisher yet, but they're hoping for a release in late 2008.

Nintendo files for "invitation system" patent [update 1]

Posted Jun 3rd 2007 7:15PM by Jason Wishnov
Filed under: Rumors

[Update 1: Slightly altered the headline.]

According to U.S. Patent No. 20070123353 (are there really that many patents? No. 1 must be for "fire"), Nintendo is contemplating an "invitation system for [online videogames]." A fairly standard feature of Xbox Live, this would enable Wii users to be automatically notified of any friends logged into Nintendo servers, and enable the ability to invite said player to join them in whatever wonderful fantasy land in which they currently reside.

This technically may not even be for the Wii, but with rewritable firmware and a crapton of yen to replace their entire online infrastructure, hey, you never know. If you have ridiculous superstitious tendencies, please feel free to perform them ... now.

More ESRB ratings found for Virtual Console

Posted Feb 16th 2007 11:00AM by Jason Wishnov
Filed under: Virtual Console

The ESRB ratings website is a veritable treasure trove of nuclear launch codes, CIA secrets, and unannounced Virtual Console games. Recently, ratings have popped up for Mighty Bomb Jack, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire. While not all of the ESRB rated games have yet arrived on the console, it's fairly certain that they'll get here eventually.

In addition, Super Ghouls n' Ghosts was announced not only for the Wii, but for the 360 and PS3. This would make it the first game to be released on all three systems' classic download services, which then brings up silly flame wars and pointless arguing.

But seriously, the Wii version will totally be the best.

(Note: The GameSpot article mentions that Galaga was also tagged for release, but we actually caught this back in January. We rock.)

Fire Emblem Wii site opens for business

Posted Feb 1st 2007 3:55PM by Jason Wishnov
Filed under: News

Fire Emblem is not like Ice Emblem in that it is, well, hot. When a small portal opened, leading to just a subsection of its fiery domain, we could not resist.

The official site for Fire Emblem: Akatsuki no Megami has opened for business, and yes, its entirely in Japanese. For your viewing pleasure, though, you might check out this bitchin' opening cinema, and some excellent box art. We're such suckers for box art. In any case, any FE fans out there owe it to themselves to journey to yon fiery realm. You won't be disappointed.

(And what the hell was Bahamut doing in that cinema?)

[via NeoGAF; thanks Creamsugar!]

Fire Emblem: Goddess of Dawn rumors

Posted Jan 10th 2007 7:45PM by Jason Wishnov
Filed under: Rumors

Some nice folks over at GoNintendo have submitted some scans and a rough translation for the upcoming Fire Emblem: Goddess of Dawn for the Wii. Though we follow the FE story about as well as we can save a dying victim using pretend surgical skills (damn you, Trauma Center!), some details might interest those masochists among us:

• Sothe is Mikaya's younger brother, though they aren't blood-related.
• The nations of Gallia and Begnion are at war. Lots and lots of war.
  
• The game will be divided into discrete portions, and the first will focus on the "Dawn Group".

An additional story synopsis can be found after the break. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance was one of the unheralded masterpieces on the Cube (we didn't mention it, we know!), and we greatly look forward to the sequel.

Continue reading Fire Emblem: Goddess of Dawn rumors

Thumbs up to Red Steel

Posted Oct 9th 2006 7:30PM by Jason Wishnov
Filed under: News, Fan stuff

The Official Nintendo Magazine (a European publication) recently got their hands on the very latest build of Red Steel, one of the most anticipated launch titles for the Wii. They seemed extremely impressed. Some of the major points:

• The controls of the game felt vastly improved, thanks to software tweaks by Ubisoft and the final remote/sensor bar hardware from Nintendo.
• The player is able to gesture toward defeated enemies to direct their movements.
• The graphics have also undergone improvements of epic proportions. The excessive hyperbole involves "forgetting everything you've seen" and the visuals are compared to a prettier version of Resident Evil 4. Which is really damn pretty.
• Apparently, the fire effects look really effin' good.

Red Steel might just be the bar to which all other first-person shooters are measured. Why, it might even start ... a revolution.

2 new Sonic Wild Fire gameplay vids

Posted Jun 15th 2006 9:30AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Fan stuff

A couple of new videos showing gameplay from Sega's upcoming Wii game Sonic Wild Fire have been uploaded for your viewing pleasure over at IGN. Both videos play just how you'd expect them to with Sonic running really fast and collecting rings. Sadly, this was one of the couple of Wii games I never got my hands on during E3, but according to Ludwig I shouldn't really be too excited for it.

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