Capcom reassures Australia

by Chris Greenhough { Jan 21st 2009 at 9:10PM }

Here, Australia and New Zealand, take a few long, hard breaths into this paper bag, because everything's going to be okay. Capcom has moved to quash fears that the collapse of Red Ant, Capcom's distributor down under, would delay Capcom releases in the region.

The good folks from Capcom PR just mailed us to say that Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop wouldn't be moved from its original Aussie and Kiwi release date of February 27, and that future Wii titles such as MotoGP and Neopets Puzzle Adventure would still be released "in line" with other PAL territories.

Gallery: Dead Rising: Chop 'Til You Drop

[Via press release]

Tags: administration, australia, capcom, dead-rising, motogp, neopets, red-ant

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

esposch @ Jan 21st 2009 11:00PM

Heh, I find it funny how Australia was meant to boost our tourism industry, but the only place in the world it didn't flop was Oz (although many people down under thought it was shit boring). It made the news here when it wasn't nominated for an Oscar.

Oh, and your post has an error. New Zealand isn't a country - it's a state of Australia. Except they are special as they are the only State which have their own Prime Minister and special laws regarding sex with animals.

Anti-Villian @ Jan 22nd 2009 5:00AM

Maui legend has it the entire island is a giant fish...

esposch @ Jan 22nd 2009 5:24AM

Do you mean Māori?
Becuase Maui is the second largest Hawaiian island, whereas the Māori people are the original inhabitants of New Zealand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori

By the way, which island was a giant fish? Australia?

Anti-Villian @ Jan 22nd 2009 5:41AM

*shakes fist at weird spelling*

I believe the bottom half of new zealand was the fish and the top half was something it was eating... or something along those lines anyway.

esposch @ Jan 22nd 2009 6:02PM

ohh!
You mean the North island is meant to be a fish.
So take that!

Matty Smith @ Jan 23rd 2009 10:35AM

Maui is also the name of the man who, according to Maori legend, fished up the North Island (his 'ika'). It's a common legend throughout the Pacific. We have it in New Zealand, but they also have it in Tonga, French Polynesia, pretty much anywhere that Polynesian people settled.