Surfer Girl: Kingdom Heart III, Heavy Rain, KotOR, Street Fighter IV, etc.

The mysterious industry "insider" Surfer Girl answers even more questions. Here are some highlights. (These are direct quotes as she does not seem to like others paraphrasing her.)

• An Animal Crossing MMO would not see release outside of Japan.
• A new Skies of Arcadia for the Wii seems to be a yes.
• KHIII (Kingdom Heart III), if it is coming out, is definitely coming to the Wii.
• The next KOTOR is being worked on at BioWare, pre-production and some early production has been done internally at LucasArts, though.
• Street Fighter IV is 2d/3d/cell-shaded on the PS360.

In addition, her long list of comments covers:

The Jet Moto series, Twisted Metal 3, F-Zero, Wave Race, Luigi's Mansion's 2, Excitebike/Nitrobike, 1080, Punch-Out remake, Shenmue sequel, Microsoft and Rare, Heavy Rain impressions, Wario World sequel, Itadaki Street DS and PSP for the US market, It's a Wonderful World for the US market, Capcom and Square characters in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Ghostbusters game, a new PSP, Beyond Good & Evil 2, an Activision title for the Wii Zapper, and Factor 5's plans for the Wii.

[MK_Red]

Loved this one. Cool info on Heavy Rain (Can't wait). Street Fighter 4 is 2D/3D/Cell-shaded for PS360? PURE AWESOMENESS.
And last but not least, Beyond Good & Evil 2 for PS3 and 360 (And Wii), More pure awesomeness.

[Chubear]

Well the 2d/3d shade thingy is already known... or so I thought since Capcom brought out the trailer for it. It's obviously taken the cell shading art direction from the trailer we've seen.

[HeavyweightInTheGame]

I was so p*ssed when I heard they were calling it quits on that series.
BTW who is this girl? Are these just rumours or are these things actually going to happen?

[ktchong]

http://www.kotaku.com.au/ga...

[InMyOpinion]

It would take loads of money to make a worthy sequel. Come on Sega! Ruin yourselves again!

[TheHater]

What? Kingdom Hearts III for the Wii. Dam that sucks. But I hope it not true, but if it is. i am getting it for my Wii. But I really hope it come out on the ps3.

[Chubear]

It wan't said it was coming out ONLY for the wii. It stated it was DEFINITLY coming out on the wii.

[ruibing]

Same here, I hope it stays on the PS family.

[Ahhhh]

"The next KOTOR is being worked on at BioWare, pre-production and some early production has been done internally at LucasArts, though."
yayayayayayayayayayayaya. Hopefully this KOTOR will just just as good or better than the first two. I wanna hear more bout this. Soon.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

and accroding to Surfer Girl its offline. yay! KOTOR does have a story, I certainly would love to know what happened to Revan, according to a recording left by Bastila(is she even alive?) in KOTOR2(my choice for Revan was light side male, not sure about canon), he went to outer ridge of the Galaxy to fight some unknown force.

[Eclipticus]

A new Twisted Metal? sweet....
A new skies of Arcadia, swashbuckling air pirate Action on the WII?
and finally KOTOR 3? KOTOR and MASS EFFECT... Bioware is the bomb...

[Laexerias]

I really dont like this Surfer Girl, dunno but, it dont make any sense. she writes so much rumours about next gen games but in this interview it looked like she hates next-gen lol. she dont even seems like a gamer to me B/ dunno why, btw. does any rumor of her ever was true?

[Skerj]

She's justified in being dissatisfied with this gen, I own 2 of the newer systems and on the whole I'm let down so far. I mean we have some GREAT games but they're few and far in between of the tons of crap that has been getting churned out. 2008 seems to be fixing that and the last month this year looks like a killer.

[BLACKJACK VII]

KOTOR III FTW !!!

BIOWARE RULEZ !!!

[gamesblow]

None of her rumors have ever came true... She's a **** SMACK, if you ask me. We also all knew about Twisted Metal for Ps3. David Jaffe is making it!! What a joke! Also, Disney isn't going to let 80% of their franchise go to Wii and not Sony's PS3 & Blu-ray. Square doesn't control the series. Disney does. Check the trademarks and patent ratio. Disney is the main license holder of the franchise.

[Double-Edged]

good bye.

[ktchong]

and none have been debunked or proven wrong.

She/he was the first one to break the news of Tim Schafer's new game... she's the first one to give a title to the game: Brutal Legend. She was right.

She was the first one to break the news of Prince of Persia prequel.

And she also posted some exclusive, never-seen-before screenshots... of cancel projects, even.

I have no idea who she is, but her several of her rumors have proven to be reliable so far... and none of them have been proven wrong so far. So we'll see.

[romemac7]

your right gameblow this bi@th on crak lol. wtf kingdom heart 3 on the wii yea ok, so i guess kingdom heart 1&2 only on ps2 will go to the wii to lol. everyone with a bairn know kingdom heart 3 coming to the ps3 only like always and as far as the wii i don't see that ever happening. next thing you know this bi@th be saying ff13 coming for the 360 lol!!!

@Knowitall: bro its spell final fantasy dumb a$$ and i know 1-6 was on the snes system bro. but look how final fantasy 1-6 look to how final fantasy 7 look on the ps1 bro, guess why they made FF7 on ps1, because it was a better system then snes that gave them more room to make the game we all love FF7 the best in the line of final fantasy bro.

[KnowitAll]

But its Disney who might want it on wii. I read an article early on in the year that Disney had produced new gamestudio to make exclusive games for wii, ds and gba. Disney has been supporting wii and ds since its realesed.

Now thing about it
Wii
- Child Friendly
- Bigger Fanbase
- Easier control for children

romemac7 - YEA MAN ITS LIKE SO STUPid!! i know huh!!!!! like finalfantgasy 1-6 were on da snes but liek dam!!1 man anyone knew ff7 if it had a brain tha it be in de n64 ha man!!! they be stupif if they realese it on ps1. LIKE LMOA

People did you read the interview a Mana wii game is on prodution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Grassroots]

While you are correct it's targeted to children, it's the older demographic that truly appreciate the game for what it is!

[Salvadore]

who is thi surfer girl?

[jackdoe]

Hm, I don't know about this Surfer Girl. Sounds like a lot of BS to me. Hell, a lot of these "rumors" could be educated guesses based on hardware sales and news.

[evyrew]

I'm not really sure what to make of this. None of the claims are substantiated with sources, it's just bullet points. The rumors cut across all platforms, so either this person is making all of this up, or is very well connected with nintendo, sony, microsoft, and several 3rd party developers. Only time will tell.

As for Street Fighter IV, what does "2d/3d/cell-shaded" even mean. From the trailer, it appears that it could go either 3d or 2d. Does she mean both... like switching back and forth like paper mario, or its a 2d game with 3d graphics?

[gamesblow]

Round peg, sorry... Reiner on his myspace page broke Brutal legends over a year ago. He was talking to Jason rubin about "IRON AND THE MAIDEN" and the name BRUTAL LEGEND came up by Tim. They said it's going to be along the same lines and that maybe his game wouldn't ahve a foot hold. So, no.. this girl is a complete **** SMACK, like I said.

[ktchong]

YOU are the one whom no one trusts in here.

[PS3 Limps on and on]

...

[gamesblow]

Me? I have doccumented proof every day of my ins and outs. I ahve a loyal following of thousands who read me daily. Please... Just go over to Jason Rubins myspace and trudge thru his and Reiners blogs. you'll see what I'm talking about. Check about a year back.

I'm GAMESBLOW, 98% successful forum poster, Jackson. I have over 40, 000 hits a week and over 100,000 a month. I'm the endearing heartwarming Forum Troll, Jimmy.

[Chubear]

I don't know if she's legit but it does seem like she is. She doesn't talk in definites most of the time and comes off as an individual who's, in some capcity, always involved in the day to day activities of the industry maybe not a very well know Xter.... maybe.

I like her. She comes off straight, passionate about the industry & community and doesn't like to take crap from anyone. That last one's what makes me really like her. :)

[Regret]

Damn Wii... If they make KH3, it wont be much better then on PS2, why not PS3? All those charachters and movies in HD, priceless. Realease it for 2-3 years when PS3 will have much better fan-base if its all on money...

[romemac7]

kingdom heart 3 on the ps3 is a giving no doubt about it. kingdom heart is a system seller and when it do come out for the ps3 it will sell a lot of ps3 system. do you know how many people played this game kingdom heart 1&2 and are waiting for 3. just look at how people act when they find out about the psp one lol,sony and square know this. i myself own kingdom heart 1&2 and love them.

[Marona]

Let me get this straight... some random person who just randomly blogs video game crap becomes attention to gamers? If thats true I should make my own and start making stuff up.

[Honeal2g]

everyone would be on her nuts..ermm ass ..but still idk her this is the first time ive seen anything she said but still what she said to me seems logical...but sony fans are gonna cry because of the kh3 comments which seems possible to me ...and xbox fans will be upset about shenmue (i am too) but i hope she;s right cause the wii really needs som games aside from mario .... thats my opinion agree or disagree ?

[SoulKillah]

No KH3 for the PS360?....what a shame

[Grassroots]

Why would the release it on the 360, they wouldn't appreciate it! Nor would they really FF13. It has become a casual system. No RPG has had great numbers beside oblivion which is a western RPG. Here's hoping for some love on Mass Effect though!

[Skerj]

Wow man she's said some pretty awesome things there. Heavy Rain is sure to be a standout hit, if you've ever played Farenheit/Indigo Prophecy you know what Quantic Dream are capable of bringing out something we've never seen done before in a game. The SFIV thing I believe as there was an interview 5-6 years ago when they said they were going to incorporate some 3d elements in the game yet the core gameplay would remain 2d. I'm just hoping it's not like EX but since Arika has nothing to do with it, we shouldn't be worried.

Beyond Good and Evil 2? HEEEEEEEELL YEAH!! Ubi needs to put some money they get from Assassin's Creed into developing that, and please for the love of Mr. T advertise the damn thing!! 2008 is going to be the year everyone shows their cards and this gen finally gets started.

[bootsielon]

Wii should get a spin-off, sort of a "KH Chronicles". After all, the keyblade and the Wiimote are made for each other; however, I do want to see an Epic KH game in HD glory. I want just spin-offs on PSP, DS and Wii, and the main series to continue on PS3 in 2009.

[midgard229]

Kingdom hearts 3 on wii, yeah right, LOL. tetsuya nomura (creator) said that he was using FF versus 13 to test things so he can use new idea's for KH3, which KH3 starts development in 2009. this girl knows nothin lol

[Grassroots]

Got to add to your comment, KH is my favorite series, so I have a question for you guys....

Why would Nomura (working on two ps3 games already), the KH team, and Advent Children team go work on the Wii??? Makes no sense, plus after how they already will know the architecture of the PS3 go make a game on the Wii. They know the game is very important to many people so they wouldn't dare do a crazy stunt like that. I have a Wii and would hate swing it around like the keyblade, you would get tired in two mins.

It's a long time coming but it def won't be on the Wii, a side story could very well find it's way to the system but not KHIII.

[midgard229]

u got it in better words than me.

sorry but um, anything action oriented wud just get tiring on the wii anyway, sora has WAY to many combo's to use the wii mote with. and like u said, they are already familiar with the ps3, besides he already said it himself.

u know whats possible tho for the wii since it gets so many ports??? KH2: final mix, now that wudnt be a bad idea, and i'd accept it cuz then it wud be comin out for america too ;p

[Grassroots]

haha while I'm not keen on the idea, KHII: FM+ on the Wii wouldn't be horrible!

[Jay da 2KBalla]

KH 3 and Kotor 3 on 360 FTW!!!

[Regret]

I dont care if they make KH1/2 port supporting wiimote. "All" I want is real sequel on PS3 (KH3).

[J@D]

KH3 on Wii.... wait...a sec... hahahahahaha lol.
hahahahahaha.... lololol I mean hahahahahahaha.... lol *Need to breath*
Now... back 2 topic.

How that's supposed to happen when Disney is supporting the Blu-Ray format... HELLOOOOO!!! PS3 > BlueRay - BlueRay >Disney.
Just my point of view but it is valid one isn't?.

I know without a single doubt that KH3 will be on PS3 for some reason. But I still buy if come on Wii anyway looking forward for the DS and PSP version ^_^

[PStriple703]

i brought my ps3 for kh3!

[BigKev45]

How does the "Surfer Girl" know this?

[DeckUKold]

it sounds believable and it could work since you like the disney chars on wii with some of you saying it's for kids it would show early ff chars from Nintendo and squre did say they want a three way race with KHIII so it's a possibility

Some of you on this site is a hypocrite on this site kindom hearts has a kiddish part but you people say you want it on ps3 i played KH and so many people said i expect this on a Nintendo system you people are flip flop indeed