The Conduit developer resurfaces with goth endless runner
It's named Le Vamp.
High Voltage Software, the developer of cult Wii shooter The Conduit, is today releasing a new game.
The Conduit 2
Spotlight
VideoThe Conduit 2 - first 15 mins
Wii shooter sequel's opening section.
VideoConduit 2 trailer shows game locations
Amazon! Bermuda! Siberia! Oxford.
VideoConduit 2 trailer reveals online modes
How does 4 player split-screen look?
VideoConduit 2 shows off its weapons
Gets UK release on 18th March.
Key events
23rd May 2011
21st March 2011
28th February 2011
7th February 2011
28th January 2011
13th January 2011
16th December 2010
Conduit 2 dev in review furore
Staff encouraged to review reviewer's book.
Conduit 2 developer High Voltage Software has apologised for asking its staff to review a book written by an author who awarded the Wii-exclusive shooter one star out of five.
HVS boss Eric Nofsinger admitted that an internal email from staffer Matt Corso calling for his colleagues to review T. Michael Murdock's The Dragon Ruby on Amazon was "a tad unprofessional".
Murdock savaged Conduit 2 in his Joystiq review, labelling it "appalling".
VideoThe Conduit 2 - first 15 mins
Wii shooter sequel's opening section.
Wii shooter sequel's opening section.
VideoConduit 2 trailer shows game locations
Amazon! Bermuda! Siberia! Oxford.
What HVS wants from the Nintendo Wii 2
"Multi-core would be great." Wii visuals "haggard".
Speculation is rife that Nintendo will tease a new home console at E3 this year, with one analyst saying an announcement this June wouldn't be a surprise – but what does the hardware have to include?
VideoConduit 2 trailer reveals online modes
How does 4 player split-screen look?
1 million sales benchmark "preposterous"
An industry "misnomer" Conduit 2 dev says.
If a game sells one million copies it is considered by many to have been successful – but that's rubbish, according to one developer.
"That's a misnomer in our industry," High Voltage chief creative officer Eric Nofsinger told Eurogamer.
"By and large people look at it and they say, if it's not a million unit seller it's a flop. That's preposterous."
Fresh batch of Conduit 2 screenshots
High Voltage amping up for April.
High Voltage amping up for April.
Conduit dev making Kinect game for 2K
Announcement at GDC. Out this year.
Conduit 2 developer High Voltage Software is making a Kinect-enabled game for BioShock publisher 2K Games, Eurogamer can reveal.
"It runs pretty darn well with full 3D."
Wii science fiction first-person shooter series Conduit is in development for the Nintendo 3DS, Eurogamer can reveal.
Conduit 2 delay brings new screens
Keep your appetite whetted 'til April.
Keep your appetite whetted 'til April.
Conduit 2 release date delayed again
Wii-exclusive shooter pushed back.
Wii-exclusive first-person shooter The Conduit 2 has been delayed once again, SEGA has announced.
It'll now launch on 22nd April, having been set for release on 18th March.
The delay "allows for the team to continue to balance and enhance the game's multiplayer, one of the key features and focuses during the development of this ambitious sequel" SEGA said in a statement issued this morning.
VideoConduit 2 shows off its weapons
Gets UK release on 18th March.
Gets UK release on 18th March.
VideoConduit 2 shows off Atlantis gameplay
Teases 4-player splitscreen.
VideoExclusive Conduit 2 gameplay trailer
Beware of the cyber-dogs.
High Voltage compares The Conduit to GTA
"Nobody knows anything about GTA 1, 2."
The developer behind Wii-exclusive first-person shooter series The Conduit has compared its difficult beginnings to the journey taken by gargantuan sandbox series Grand Theft Auto.
The Conduit 2: The long road back
High Voltage on finding an audience for a Wii FPS.
When High Voltage Software first showed off its self-funded FPS The Conduit back in 2008, both core game-starved Wii owners and press intrigued by how a low-profile tie-in factory was eeking such impressive visuals from Nintendo's humble console immediately sat up and took notice.
VideoWatch The Conduit 2's opening movie
Picks up from first's cliffhanger.
Picks up from first's cliffhanger.
VideoHigh Voltage brings Conduit 2 footage
Release window narrowed to Feb 2011.
Release window narrowed to Feb 2011.
SEGA narrows down The Conduit 2 release
Delayed to incorporate "fan feedback".
The Conduit 2, SEGA's forthcoming Wii FPS, will launch in February, the publisher has announced.
Conduit dev making Wii Cap America?
SEGA keeps quiet.
SEGA has refused to comment on an online report that The Conduit developer High Voltage Software is making the Wii version of Captain America: The First Avenger.
Plus: new control systems promised.
The sequel to Wii shooter Conduit won't be released until the first quarter of 2011.
Conduit developer scales back.
High Voltage Software, developer of Wii shooter The Conduit, has let 25 staff go, IGN reports.
The Conduit 2 gets MotionPlus support
Optional precision controls for Wii FPS.
SEGA has announced that The Conduit 2 will include support for Wii MotionPlus.
Conduit 2 will do "whatever it takes"
First was over-ambitious, says developer.
High Voltage has promised to do "whatever it takes" to ensure that The Conduit 2 lives up to the hype.
The Conduit 2 heads for autumn
SEGA makes Wii sequel official.
SEGA's officially revealed The Conduit 2 and given it a release date of autumn 2010.
Includes four-player co-op mode.
High Voltage is hard at work on The Conduit 2 for Wii, according to the latest issue of official US magazine Nintendo Power, and SEGA will once again be publishing.