"When pressed by Sean O'Neill about the title (Fatal Frame IV), Reggie just shrugged his shoulders and said "not my problem."

Actually, no, that's not exactly true. Be funny if it was, but it's not. But it's not terribly far off, either, as Reggie told Sean with a smirk that "you're going to have to contact the publisher for questions on that.""

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quote Nintendo

"Hello,

I can appreciate your interest in Fatal Frame. However, at this time, a Fatal Frame IV game has not been announced for release in North America. If Nintendo decides to develop and publish this game, the news will be posted in our website's "What's New" section (www.nintendo.com/whatsnew). Be sure to check here often for all the latest information and announcements.

Once a game has been officially announced, our website's Game Guide feature (http://www.nintendo....

"

Nintendo has recently released a report saying that the Tecmo and Grasshopper Manufacture developed Fatal Frame IV: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse has three bugs, one of which will cause the game to crash. However, none of these bugs will affect save data.

The game-crashing bug can be described as follows:

quote duckroll, GAF

During "三 ノ 蝕 忘 日" (it's a day/chapter in the game I believe) after you have obtained the 暗 号 の よ う な メ モ (coded memo), if you open the door to the doctor's room on th...

"From the official Fatal Frame IV website:

Ten years later, two of the girls who were "spirited away" died, one after another, killed by a horrible figure with a hidden face, who screamed and wailed...

The two girls other than Ruka who remained alive, Misaki and Madoka, headed towards Rougetsu Island in order to unravel the mystery of their friends’ deaths.
And so Ruka followed the two of them to cross over to the island to find out what lay behind her lost memories.

Ruka Minazuki
A..."

""

"Next to Soulcalibur IV, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse was this week's most pre-ordered console game titles on Amazon.co.jp!"

"Games Released in the United States:
Nintendo Wii:
- King of Clubs
- MLB Power Pros 2008
- Sam & Max Season One
- Summer Athletics

Xbox 360:
- Soulcalibur IV
- Spectral Force 3
- Summer Athletics

PlayStation 3:
- Soulcalibur IV

PlayStation 2:
- MLB Power Pros 2008
- Summer Athletics Nintendo DS:
- Air Traffic Chaos
- Suzuki Super-Bikes

PC:
- Art of Murder: FBI Confidential
- Beijing 2008
- Build in Time
- City Life 2008 Edition
- Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm
-..."

"Several of you asked about Tecmo’s other titles that have been announced in Japan which were not on display at the show. Fatal Frame 4 (Wii) will be published by Nintendo, so please contact your Nintendo PR contact for further information. - Tecmo PR statement

Well…that’s not good at all. Tecmo seems to point towards Nintendo for publishing Fatal Frame IV in North America, yet when I asked Nintendo about the game, they were completely baffled."

"- When writing the prototype for the original game, SHibata wanted to include two main ideas. Firstly, he wanted the game to be set in traditional Japanese houses, as he intented to use the numerous dark, hidden places these buildings usually contain to waken profound fears within the player. Secondly, he wanted to include ghosts, as well as a unique system to confine them via a camera. Why a camera ? Well, he explains that the ghosts are supposed to be so scary to look at directly, that he t..."

"During my interview with Denise Kaigler, I did manage to slip in a few traditional questions. One of my inquiries related to Fatal Frame IV for the Wii. I wanted to know why we didnt hear about it at the conference, and why it wasnt on the show floor, or in Nintendos meeting room. I was a bit surprised to find out that no one during my meeting had even heard of the game. They werent familiar with the title at all. I thought for sure they would know the game I was talking about, considering Ni..."

"Zero on Wii handles in much the same way as Resident Evil 4, using the Nunchuk to move and the Remote to direct the camera, giving an over-the-shoulder perspective. You’re no Leon Kennedy, however, and as in previous Zero games your only form of defense against ghosts is to snap a picture of them, so sealing their soul into the celluloid."

"Less than 19 days left! Are you excited?

Few things first: IGN posted information about the FFIV website update.
(Seriously, all of their coverage of FFIV has renewed my faith in them!)

Finally, some famitsu tidbits:
- Choushiro has been demoted since the incident 10 years ago. He's formally called a Keiji (IGN is translating this as a "prosecutor") and then called a Tantei ("detective").
Andmebrick tells me that both terms can be translated as 'detective', however a keiji can arre..."

"Major props to Andmebrick again for his quick translation skills!

So here are your website manipulations in English for those of us who can't read Japanese."

"Fatal Frame IV isn’t getting the buzz it deserves. The title will soon be releasing in Japan, and we are sure to learn more about it come E3 time. Why aren’t more people talking about this game? The series has been one of the most consistently scary games out there, and the 4th entry is going to have the help/influence of Suda51. If that doesn’t make the hair on the back of your neck stand up, I don’t know what will.


Fatal Frame IV forum"

For those eager beavers who can't wait to get their hands on Fatal Frame IV, Play-Asia.com is now accepting pre-orders for the Japanese copy of the game.
(Remember: The Japanese Version is only compatible with Japanese Wii consoles)

For those who want the American version, let's hope a release date is announced soon ...


Fatal Frame IV forum

"Tecmo versus Itagaki
For starters, Itagaki is NOT the creator of the Fatal Frame Series. Neither is Team Ninja. I dislike it when people assume this is so. Keisuke Kikuchi, Makoto Shibata, and Project Zero worked on the Zero (ie Fatal Frame) games.

As of now, this lawsuit isn't effecting the fourth edition of the Fatal Frame game, as it's still coming out on July 31st in Japan. Until the lawsuit came about, Tecmo stock reports mentioned that Tecmo was planning on selling the fourth game ..."

"Wario Land Shake (Wii) - 150k
Fatal Frame 4 (Wii) - 20k
Blue Dragon Plus (DS) - 150k
Sigma Harmonics (DS) - 80k

If these order/shipment numbers are the real deal, it looks like Japan is expecting something big from both Blue Dragon Plus and Wario Land: The Shake Dimension. On the opposite end of the spectrum, they have no idea how people will embrace Fatal Frame IV."

"As for other website news, Andmebrick has generously translated the FFIV website, and Emi did screen manipulations with the translations."

"IGN's latest podcast (which can be found here) has some new information/insight on the games. Nothing spoilerish as far as gameplay or plot goes, but some general information.

quote

IGN Fatal Frame, obviously, is going to be the big one.
Oh my god yes!

Q: Can you guys promise a documentary of one of you guys playing Fatal Frame IV alone in the dark?
Oh yeah I can do that!
OH YES!
(more talking about Resident Evil, Alone in the Dark and playing claustrophobic like games.)
That'll be ...

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Fatal Frame IV the series that shifted from the Playstation to Nintendo, is nearing release (at least in Japan), and that obviously means that we get tons of new stuff relating to the game. Today the new stuff is in the form of the official website and some screenshots which have been attached below. Enjoy them...

Remember more screenshots available at the source.

"IGN has a Nintendo Chat Podcast with Matt Casamassina, Mark Bozon, Craig Harris, and Daemon Hatfield. You can download the podcast here

Their episode 12 podcast features information on Fatal Frame IV! The game itself got mentioned three times in the podcast. The guys said they were 100% sure the game would be at E3 (great news to FF & Tecmo fans, since Tecmo has previously announced their discontent with how the current E3fis run). It looks as though the game is going to be featured throug..."

"The following information is revealed from the leaflet:
STORYWISE
- It's implied Ruka was rescued first
- The kidnapper of the five girls was male

GAMEWISE
- Besides the mansion which has already been shown, a deserted hospital will be one of the stages you can explore!
- the story will progress/be told from the point of view of three different people*
- the Wiimote will control the player's flashlight, while the Nunchuck will control the player's movements.

*It says that the play..."

"Three sisters and a camera on a haunted island? Sounds about right.

Plot: The game is set in the mysterious Rougetsu Island, where five young girls of the Minazuki family were kidnapped in the past. Two of the girls later died, while the remaining three - Ruka, Misaki, and Madoka - have decided to visit the island in an attempt to remember what happened during that incident. The magazine reveals that players will take on the role of Ruka and venture around the mansion in the island, which..."

"Fatal Frame IV is the latest in the series known as Project Zero over here and is being developed exclusively for Wii. We like that a lot.
No More Heroes creator Suda 51 is co-sharing directorship with series director Shibata Makoto and Nintendo is publishing the title, so expect it to get a high-profile release over here. It's dated in Japan for July 31.

Another title on the list is something called Wario Land Shake. It's for Wii and is hitting shelves on July 24.

DS owners might als..."

"Why not the power and graphics of the Xbox 360 or the Playstation 3, couldn't the game achieve much more on these systems than on the Wii? Don't get me wrong, if the Wii version came with a special camera that had the power such as Silent Scope, the arcade version, to take the game to the next level I would be all over that like "white on rice in a glass of milk on a paper plate in a snowstorm" but I don't forsee Nintendo being that adventurous.

My simple adoration for this game series is..."

"You've seen this movie before. A good looking woman (who spends some time in PG-13-rated underwear) is menaced by a Japanese she-ghost with lank, black hair who suffered some sort of horrific ill in her life.
The Good Looking Woman then investigates the background and history of the Japanese She-Ghost to discover exactly what kind of horrific ill she suffered. Then things look like they are going to be better before the shocking twist ending shows that no, it isn't.

If you must watch Sh..."

"From scan: Following in the giant-sized footsteps of Monster Hunter, another major Japanese developed franchise is making the jump to Wii exclusivity: Tecmo's bone-chilling Fatal Frame.
Even more surprising is that the project will be a mega-collaboration between Tecmo, Nintendo and Grasshopper Manufacture (of No More Heroes fame).

For those unfamiliar with the series, it's one of gaming's most legitimately terrifying survival-horror experiences. (more info on the series: here)"

"Details on Wii's Fatal Frame 4 have been scarce since the initial announcement so it is a breath of fresh air to have some news to finally talk about.

It is unknown where these scans originated from however the girl pictured is supposedly the new main character, Tachibana Yoru. She appears to have some connection to the Fatal Frame 2 protagonist, Mio Amakura, and the ghost, Chitose."