Overlord II, Overlord Dark Legend, and Overlord Minions will be available from video game retailers in the United Kingdom as of tomorrow, the 25th of June. Heralding the arrival of the games, Codemasters have released a plethora of Overlord-related videos and wallpapers which can be seen at the official website.
411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Fight Night Round 4, BlazBlue, Wii Sports Resort, Another Code: R, Mamoru-kun wa Norowarete Shimatta, PangYa: Fantasy Golf, Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, The Conduit, Dawn of Discovery, Rorona no Atelier, and Overlord.
Weekly Game Releases - 14th-20th June June for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP and DS.
Speaking in an interview with MCV, Codemasters' Marketing VP Alex Bertie has said that future Wii titles published by the gaming giant will not simply be "cheap, crappy ports" of their next-gen counterparts.
It's become acceptable for Wii games to look less than spectacular visually, and certainly well below the bar set by Xbox 360 and PS3 games, but it seems all developers aren't cut from the same rock.
Edge writes: "SouthPeak Interactive reported record sales of $40.2 million for its fiscal year 2008, an increase of 220 percent year-on-year, the company said Tuesday.
Dean Scott, producer of Overlord: Dark Legends (the Wii exclusive Overlord game) spoke at GDC last month criticising Wii Ports.