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High Voltage’s The Conduit has gone gold. The shooter releases for Wii on June 23 in both the US and Europe.

Nintendo singled out the game as being one of the great core hopes or Wii in its E3 press conference.

The world’s watching, Reggie. As, no doubt, are Platinum, Visceral and Rockstar.

Press release after the break.

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The immediate growth opportunity for Wii exists in capturing the core gamer, Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has told CNET.

“The near-term opportunity is the consumer who owns an PS3 or an Xbox 360 and has been bad-mouthing Wii to their friends,” he said, talking at E3.

“We can reach that consumer with games like The Conduit or Tiger Woods with Wii Motion Plus.”

Fils-Aime said that players will go onto buy other first-party Nintendo games once they’d made the plunge.

“We think we win over the Halo audience with something like The Conduit, a multi-player, online, shooting experience, or Dead Space Extraction,” he added.

“And you know what? Once those people buy into Wii, they’ll go buy Mario Kart or Wii Fit Plus.”

Don’t worry, though. There’s plenty in that interview about going after non-gaming consumers. Read for the Lord.

Sega has announced an E3 lineup that pretty much includes the obvious.

And here it is:

• Aliens vs. Predator (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – due early 2010
• Alpha Protocol (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) – October 2009
• Bayonetta (PS3, Xbox 360) – due late 2009
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (DS, Wii)  – October 2009
• Planet 51 (DS, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii)  – Fall 2009
• The Conduit (Wii) – June 23
• Vancouver 2010 – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Winter Games (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) –  January 2010

Full press release is below.

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High Voltage has said that it will be unveiling a brand new unannounced IP to behind closed media types at E3 next month.

From the release:

“2009 is already shaping up to be a groundbreaking year for this studio,” said Kerry J. Ganofsky, CEO and founder of High Voltage Software. “The release of The Conduit is just around the corner and there is more to come. We feel that E3 is the perfect opportunity to show off our hard work and give a taste of our very latest project.”

“I won’t say much about our new property until we unveil it at E3,” said Eric Nofsinger, Chief Creative Officer of High Voltage Software. “But I can guarantee that we are continuing to push our technology to the absolute limit in order to deliver experiences that are beyond jaw-dropping.”

Full thing after the break.

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Eric Nofsinger has stated that High Voltage will be showing crowds at E3 this year two new Wii exclusives.

Both, he said, are first-person shooters capable of hosting five dozen onscreen foes at minimum.

Speaking with Nintendo Master, Nofsinger told the French site that the firm wants to “do some things that are very, very rare, even on the 360 or PS3.”

“Our goal with The Conduit was to make a game that was the most graphically impressive for the Wii,” he said. Our goal with these upcoming games is to do some things that are very, very rare, even on the 360 or PS3. Some of the things we’re doing with sheer number of enemies onscreen and things like that are very impressive.

“We’ve got a demo that we’ll be showing, where the average number of enemies on the screen at a given time is 65. And it goes up. There’s areas where you go onto a vista and there’s an incredible number of enemies.”

Come on E3, hurry up already.

Via Cubed.

Unless you can save it that is, and try you must in the Conduit.

Looks like you’ll be able to shoot aliens in the face, which is always a good thing.

Plus there is a terrorist plot, a strange flu, and a shadow organization controlling the government.

Mulder and Scully would be so proud.

It’s out in June.

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EB Games has listed the contents for The Conduit’s Limited Edition package on it’s website.

Some of these you may already know about, some you may not.

• 24-Page art book featuring exclusive concept art and digital imagery sharing the creative process in bringing the world of The Conduit to life
• The in-game “All Seeing Eye” (A.S.E.) Device featuring custom detailing and projected light. Allowing you to unlock puzzles and discover the secrets of The Conduit
• “Secret Agent” Multiplayer skin which helps you dominate your enemies in intense multiplayer battles

Game’s out for Wii June 23 and 26 in North America and Europe respectively.

Thanks, GoNintendo.

YouTube videoer Shokio has landed an interview with the High Voltage team, asking each staff member what their favorite part of the game is. Watch it after the break.

Game’s out June 23 and 26 in North America and Europe respectively.

Thanks, GoNintendo.

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Sega’s confirmed via The Conduit’s official site that the Wii shooter will launch in Europe on June 26.

It was pinned for a June 23 US release earlier this week.

Thanks, NintendoEverything.

We kind of mentioned this already yesterday, but High Voltage has confirmed a June 23 release for The Conduit.

Originally scheduled for a June 9 release, the “summer” push back is technically accurate considering tht the first day of summer is June 21.

The game was delayed so WiiSpeak could be implemented properly.

High Voltage has revealed extra details regarding multiplayer functionality for upcoming shooter The Conduit.

Main thing to notice is that the number of players has been cut from 16 to 12 to improve balance and performance.

• Changed from 16 players online to 12 for better balance/gamer performance
• Free for All – Fast match, finishes when a player reaches specified kill count
• Marathon – Have the highest kill count at the end of the specified time limit
• Three Strikes – Only have 3 lives to play with
• Last Man Standing – Be the last player to survive
• ASE Football – Tag game – player who holds on to ASE for the longest time is the winner
• Bounty Hunter – Players go after specified player, if you hit an incorrect player you receive a penalty
• Team Reaper – Quick Match/Marathon, Shared Stock as well – have additional lives from a pool
• Team Objective – CTF mode with ASE – teams need to obtain own ASE
• Another mode requires teams to obtain one ASE – team that takes in the most in specified time limit wins
• WiiSpeak support reconfirmed
• Can only hear players that are closest – will hear 6 players are the most while battling

Gamestop has it on pre-order with a ship date of June 23 – along with an exclusive limited edition.

Thanks, Nintendo Everything.

Sega release a trailer of High Voltage’s The Conduit this afternoon, as you can see after the break.

The end of the video unfortunately tells of a slip to “summer” from “spring”.

Let’s hope the Wii shooter doesn’t feel like watching the leaves fall off the trees.

Take a look.

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Pretty much.

Loads of screens of the Wii shooter can be found here on Gamespot, plus there’s a new video for it after the break.

Sega’s promising a spring release.

Thanks, GoNintendo.

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High Voltage Software’s Josh Olson has decided FPS The Conduit isn’t just pleasing on the eye. No sir. It’s the best-looking videogame on Wii. Don’t hold back, Josh.

“Much has been made of our tech and rightly so – we feel that that we’re the best-looking game on the console,” Olson told CVG.

Nintendo will be pleased to hear that. Graphics don’t matter, however, ever if yours are the “best”.

“It’s really all about the gameplay though, and in targeting the Wii we focused very heavily on the unique controls,” the developer continued.

“We feel that with The Conduit we have a perfectly viable ‘third scheme’ out there for FPS games and we look forward to throwing ourselves into the never-ending debate between the relative merits and shortcomings of the dual analogue and the mouse-and-keyboard among fanboys.”

Sega’s publishing the shooter this “spring”.

High Voltage boss Eric Nofsinger has told 1UP that Wii MotionPlus won’t be included in sci-fi shooter The Conduit because it didn’t really add anything.

Fair enough.

“When we actually implemented it for The Conduit, it didn’t really add anything for our primarily ranged combat,” he said.

“We had hoped that it would allow for better off screen IR tracking, but the device seems to lend itself more naturally for hand to hand combat where the player can calibrate in-between bouts. And that just doesn’t feel like an optimal fit for how we had designed our moment to moment gameplay.”

There’s still no date on the release of Wii MotionPlus.

The Conduit’s out this “spring”.

High Voltage’s The Conduit will not be using Wii MotionPlus when it’s released, but it will have Wii Speak enabled when it lands in shops this spring.

There’s a new movie of the futuristic shooter after the break.

Looks like main character Michael Ford should have stayed in bed that morning.

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After the break. One movie shows various gameplay features of the upcoming High Voltage Wii shooter, including animation techniques that “makes the player’s kill experience more enjoyable”.

The second details how far the game’s come since its early days.

It’s being published by Sega this spring.

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New York Comic Con’s now well under way, and a bunch of big-name hands-ons got posted overnight. You may want to read them.

You are, therefore, in luck. Sorry, we’re just writing words for the sake of it.

Looks as though plenty of that’s been done already:

• Wolverine Claws of Olympus hands-on (Joystiq)
• GTA Chinatown Wars hands-on (Joystiq)
• GTA: Chinatown Wars hands-on (Kotaku)
• The Conduit demo (IGN)
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game preview (IGN)
• Resistance: Retribution preview (IGN)

Alan Pritchard (MD of Sega Europe North ) and John Clark (UK sales director) have told MCV that they feel titles such as the 18 rated MadWorld and more adult themed games such as The Conduit can only server to broaden the Wii demographic.

“There have been some good hardcore Wii titles. Resident Evil 4 has done reasonable numbers; Red Steel has also performed really well. But since then, many publishers have migrated towards the more mass-market family titles, so perhaps there hasn’t been the array or depth of hardcore titles on Wii,” said Pritchard. “So there is definitely opportunity here.”

“More family friendly titles are being released on PlayStation and 360 as this is a growth area for these formats. Maybe with Wii there’s a reverse opportunity,” said Clarke.

“We’d like to maintain the success we’ve had on Nintendo formats. One way of achieving that is with new IP like The Conduit and MadWorld, and traditional Sega titles will continue to drive broader market success.”

MadWorld was recently given an 18-rating in the UK.

Full interview through the link.

By Mike Bowden

CVG’s published a set of new Conduit shots twice, for some reason. There’s nowt queer as folk.

The Wii shooter’s on the way to market via Sega, as is now confirmed, as does appear to be “good.” Look and see.