Nintendo publishing Necro-Nesia in North America?

By Spencer . January 5, 2007 . 3:11pm

One of our readers, dropped us a tip pointing to a GameFAQs page with updated information of Necro-Nesia. According to the link Nintendo is publishing the game under a new name Escape from Bug Island. There’s no confirmation from Nintendo about acquiring publishing rights to Spike’s game or about a name change which makes the source a little shaky. However, it isn’t too far fetched to believe that someone was going to pick up the title for localization. The campy name change might redeem Necro-Nesia from being thought as a survival horror game, which has a different set of expectations. The release date says May, 15, 2007, which could mean bug smashing with the Wii remote might not be far away.

Thanks for the tip D-Fuse!

Edit: Zabuni had a brilliant idea, run a whois on escapefrombugisland.com. The result shows that Eidos owns the domain name, maybe they’re bringing it over? Or maybe they are working on a game with bugs of some sort with an island that you have to escape. It doesn’t matter if it’s Nintendo or Eidos someone is working on localizing Necro-Nesia.

TAGS: Eidos, Necro-Nesia, Nintendo, Rumors, Spike, Wii

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Devin G

I heard this game was terrible, so I could care less.

the_importer

I hope this is a sick joke. This is 2007, you don't rename games when bringing them over to NA just because of censorship issues, this isn't a kids game anyway.

EvilAkito

I hope the price drops soon after release. When it's cheap, I'll definately buy it. Normally I'm not a cheapskate, but I wouldn't want to spend $50 on a game that's notorious for being the worst Wii launch game.

Spencer

zabuni that was genius to check out the DNS, I can't believe I didn't think of that. Maybe it is Eidos or maybe they have another game related to stomping bugs in the works either way thanks for doing that.

zabuni

The magic of whois:

Registrant: Make this info private
Hostmaster, Eidos **

651 BRANNAN ST STE 400
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107-1535
US

Domain Name: ESCAPEFROMBUGISLAND.COM

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :
Hostmaster, Eidos **
hostmaster@eidos.com
651 BRANNAN ST STE 400
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107-1535
US
Phone: +1 415 547 1200
Fax: +1 415 547 1201

Record expires on 15-Dec-2009
Record created on 15-Dec-2006
Database last updated on 15-Dec-2006

Domain servers in listed order: Manage DNS

Could Eidos be bringing it over?