Please support Game Informer. Print magazine subscriptions are less than $2 per issue
Another Wii U Developer: Vicarious Visions
I know that LinkedIn is ostensibly for business people to connect with each other and build professional networks, but the site's alternate function of leaking unannounced products before their time sometimes seems larger. Today's edition features Activision's Vicarious Visions studio working on a mystery title for Wii U.
The ever-vigilant GameSpot has spotted (that's what passes for cleverness on a Friday afternoon, leave me alone) "Project Nova" for 360, PS3, and Wii U on a Vicarious Visions associate producer's LinkedIn page.*
The multiplatform listing reinforces my feeling that the Wii U is going to have a whole lot of ports of PS3 and 360 games with token nods to the goofy controller. I have a hard time believing that non-Nintendo publishers are going to invest a ton of money into Wii U tech when any graphical improvements are going to likely be surpassed when new Sony and Microsoft machines leapfrog the Wii U hardware-wise in a few years.
Vicarious Visions has been up and down, but I'll always remember the studio for making an excellent Doom 3 port for the first Xbox back when that engine was the new tech hotness.
What are you hoping for out of a Vicarious Visions project on Wii U?
* My limited LinkedIn-fu didn't let me find the listing (or, more likely, it has since been removed), but if GameSpot has started making up stories out of whole cloth, we have worse problems.
I’d like to ask you to support Game Informer’s continued coverage of games with a subscription. For less than two dollars per issue, we mail you a full year of 10 print magazines, each with cover stories and preview features filled with exclusive details about the most exciting upcoming games. We profile and interview game creators. We look back on the rich history of gaming, and we celebrate what’s next.
Here on the website, we offer much of our content for free, including game reviews, daily news, videos, event coverage, and more – all with minimal ads.
We do so with a small editorial team, alongside contributing paid writers from around the world – over 65 individuals from 9 countries around the world, just in the last couple of years.
It’s not possible without support.
In a time when game makers and games coverage have faced hard struggles and layoffs, the future of this 30+ year magazine and community is at risk. Our new standalone magazine subscription is the number one way you can keep us alive – and we believe you’ll get a pretty fantastic gaming magazine in your mailbox every few weeks for your trouble.
Thank you.
