Just a few short days ago we posted a story that seemed to confirm that the highly anticipated WiiWare title Eternity’s Child was not planned for release in North America. This news came from the game’s creator Luc Bernard and was followed by the sound of wailing and the gnashing of teeth.
However, in a bizarre twist to this tale, we’ve since been contacted by the publishers of the WiiWare version of Eternity’s Child. Alten8’s CEO Paul Andrews had this to say:
EC is in the porting stage - Luc is an artist and concept creator, who under contract to us has licensed 5 game concepts across DS and Wii formats with EC being one of them.
Luc had the original EC PC version commissioned by a coder external to Alten8. Alten8 is now porting to Wii the PC version code as supplied recently to us. We could not do this till the PC version was nearer completion. This game will be ported by Alten8's in-house coders based in the Luton UK office, then rated for the various regions and put through the Nintendo system before going out on WiiWare, as always intended by us.
It will subject to actual rating and go out as closely as possible in Europe and NA regions. We aim to ultimately have it out in all regions, but realistically those two will be first.
We do not want to give specific time scales on its release other than to say now it is being ported from the supplied code. We are as a company working as fast as we can to do this porting and get it through the Nintendo system once done.
The versions Luc puts out himself on PC should not be confused with the Wii versions we will put out, and may differ in terms of final levels and game play. We aim again to bring the best game we can to Wii players and enhance it and make use of the Wii's unique features.
Luc is an independent artist, not an employee or directly working for Alten8, and his views do not always reflect our own and of course do not always reflect actual business facts. Luc is highly talented and we look forward to working with him on future products, but the public should not confuse Luc’s public statements with the view and realities of Alten8's actual actions.
I hope this helps make clear where EC is currently…it will be coming to as many people as want it and as quickly as possible whilst staying true to Luc's original game and concepts.
As a company we hope to be able to confirm on various DS and Wii projects coming out through us and other third party publishers we are currently working with soon.
So there you have it – Eternity’s Child IS coming out in North America after all. Phew, we can all breathe a sigh of relief now!
1. ynot
01 Jul 2008, 10:19 GMT
First! First comment of July too!
This is great news! I'm so looking forward to this game. =)
2. Dazza
01 Jul 2008, 10:39 GMT
Naughty Luc, do this again and the pug gets it!
3. PALgamer
01 Jul 2008, 10:42 GMT
We already knew this. Just read the comments from the old news; which had an "alarming title" for the content it had (guess we are in need for comments?)
4. bwaybuddy26
01 Jul 2008, 11:38 GMT
I told you so.
5. KnucklesSonic8
01 Jul 2008, 12:12 GMT
Okay.... Make up your minds. xD
6. Boringman54
01 Jul 2008, 15:17 GMT
YAY!!!!
7. zeeroid
01 Jul 2008, 15:25 GMT
ftw ftw
8. Jupiter Adept
01 Jul 2008, 15:26 GMT
I knew it would, this doesn't surprise me.
9. ttplayer92
01 Jul 2008, 16:03 GMT
Whoa, never saw so many canadians post at once.
10. andy836
01 Jul 2008, 16:51 GMT
yay!!!! its coming but i already knew that lol this just confirms it.
11. Virus
01 Jul 2008, 16:57 GMT
Well, this is very good news. Now if we can just get a WiiWare version of World of Goo for our European friends...
12. zoipi
01 Jul 2008, 18:08 GMT
Well, horray for you. You ara also going to have a great game.
13. Symphonia King
01 Jul 2008, 18:29 GMT
I'm not completely sure if i'm interested in this or not.
14. Jace
01 Jul 2008, 19:27 GMT
The part about "the versions Luc puts out himself on PC should not be confused with the Wii versions we will put out, and may differ in terms of final levels and game play" does concern me a bit. I hope they don't tinker with it too much, and I REALLY hope they don't put in arbitrary waggle controls that make the game less intuitive and more awkward.
15. hansolo350
01 Jul 2008, 19:55 GMT
@ttplayer92
It's probably because it's Canada Day.
16. strade32
01 Jul 2008, 21:03 GMT
this game doesn't look that great.
17. BlackFira
01 Jul 2008, 21:20 GMT
can,t wait to to get this game it is one of my MOST top ten games to get -Enternity Child, Earthbound, SuperMario RPG, Toki Tori, Megaman 9, James Bond Golden Eye, Donkey Kong 64, Resident Evil 2, Perfect dark 64 i think it was called and mario party 3. lol actually this list is bigger. they could release diddy kong racing if they just take the conker character out of the game.
18. Objection_Blaster
01 Jul 2008, 22:30 GMT
@Jace I was thinking the same thing. Well anyway, I knew they couldnt keep it from us NA-ians. After all, we rock!
19. AtTheDriveIn92
02 Jul 2008, 01:02 GMT
@strade32
we don't even have much evidence to determine whether the game will be good or not. However, we do know that the game is artistic, and that Luc Bernard is very creative.
20. Ricardo91
02 Jul 2008, 01:11 GMT
FINALLY! Now it all makes sense! Yaaaay! USA! USA! USA! =D
21. strade32
02 Jul 2008, 02:57 GMT
yeah actually we do. it's called youtube. also, i am just stating that to me it looks bad. why would i need evidence to support that? i'm not dissing the game or anything, just to me it does not look good.
22. AtTheDriveIn92
02 Jul 2008, 06:55 GMT
@strade32
haha the youtube videos are really "bare-bones"
but doesn't it seem good considering it's only going to cost 500 points??
23. LucBernard
02 Jul 2008, 14:50 GMT
yeah its kind of sad that people don't realize that the youtube videos were from the XNA version that is older than a year ago
24. MrPoo6321
02 Jul 2008, 17:20 GMT
thank god i don't have to play the PC version
25. Symphonia King
02 Jul 2008, 22:34 GMT
Luc- yeah, I guess that's a point. Probably why I didn't like the way EC looked in the videos.
26. SupermarketZombies
06 Jul 2008, 01:32 GMT
Hmm I think I might buy the PC version if Alten8 does any serious editing to the game (I.E. cuts, censors, etc.)
27. originalp
17 Jul 2008, 18:59 GMT
OMG!! I just read this article! This is so cool, I was worried for a moment...
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