Kotaku: High Voltage

Author of Negative Conduit 2 Review Becomes Target of Studio's Ire, His Novel Attacked on Amazon

Drew Cohen — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:40:00 EDT

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Video game development company High Voltage Software was so chagrined by a negative review of their game, The Conduit 2, its creative director may have encouraged studio staff to retaliate against the author—by inundating the Amazon page for his novel with negative reviews. More »

Conduit's Developer Vows They'll Bring the Game to 3DS

Owen Good — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:30:00 EST

Conduit 2 (it dropped the "The"), the sequel to the pioneering Wii shooter, has had its release date pushed back twice. Once developer High Voltage finishes it, though, they'll begin working on an installment for the Nintendo 3DS. More »

Tournament of Legends Review: Maximus Flailing

Brian Crecente — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:20:00 EDT

Frankenreview: The Conduit

Mike Fahey — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:20:00 EDT

High Voltage an Sega seek to take on the mantle of the Nintendo Wii's signature first-person shooter with The Conduit. Have they succeeded? More »

High Voltage's Gladiator A.D. First Impressions

Mike Fahey — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:10:00 EDT

The Conduit developer High Voltage is bringing the original arena sport to the Wii with Gladiator A.D., part fighting game, part roleplaying game. More »

Gladiator Looks Like A Bloody Mess

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:30:00 EDT

Here's the first footage of Gladiator AD, High Voltage's new fighting game for the Wii. Bloody! Let's just hope the MotionPlus-compatible gameplay is better than their grasp on history in that opening dialogue. More »

Conduit Developers Announce ANOTHER New Game

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:30:00 EDT

High Voltage are working on The Conduit. And Gladiator AD. And now they've just revealed a third game, only a day after revealing Gladiator. Slow down, guys! More »

Conduit Developers Unveil New Roman Fighting Game

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:30:00 EDT

Conduit developers High Voltage mustn't have got the memo. E3 is next week, not this week. Regardless, they've chosen today to announce their latest project, Gladiator AD. More »

High Voltage: The Conduit Different From Other Core Sega Wii Titles

Mike Fahey — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:20:00 EDT

High Voltage chief creative officer Eric Nofsinger explains why The Conduit won't suffer the same poor sales as Sega's other core Wii titles, MadWorld and The House of the Dead: Overkill. More »

D3 Does Astro Boy

Mike Fahey — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Only one robotic child stands between Metro City and the evil President Stone's robot army in Astro Boy: The Video Game, coming this October from D3 Publisher. More »

High Voltage: New Wii Exclusives Can Handle ... Tens of On-Screen Enemies

Owen Good — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:30:00 EDT

High Voltage, the studio behind the (latest) bacon-saver for Wii core gamers, The Conduit, says his house will show off two more Wii exclusives at E3, capable of five dozen onscreen foes, minimum. More »

The Story Behind The Conduit

Mike Fahey — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:20:00 EDT

"How can mankind fight a war that the enemy has already won?" asks the latest trailer for Sega's first-person shooter The Conduit. More »

The Conduit Preview: Calling Do-Overs

AJ Glasser — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:40:00 EDT

Last night's The Conduit multiplayer event was plagued by major server issues, leaving developer High Voltage Software no choice but to call do-overs. More »

The Conduit Multiplayer In Action

Mike Fahey — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:00:00 EDT

The latest trailer for High Voltage Software's Wii shooter The Conduit gives a glimpse at the game's robust online multiplayer gameplay. More »

The Conduit's All Seeing Eye

Mike Fahey — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Sega has dropped a new trailer and screens featuring the All Seeing Eye, Michael Ford's key to unraveling the mysteries pervading Washington D.C. in The Conduit. More »

The Conduit Control Customization

Brian Crecente — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EDT

There are plenty of things to talk about when it comes to Wii shooter The Conduit, but none are more important then the controls and the absurd number of ways you can customize them. More »

The Conduit Channels Hardcore Gaming To the Wii: Hands-On

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:00:00 EST

It's clear that High Voltage Software are excited about the ability of The Conduit, their upcoming first-person shooter geared for hardcore gamers, to ratchet the Wii's technology several notches past what it's previously pulled off. More »

The Conduit Then and Now

Brian Crecente — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:00:00 EST

To say that The Conduit has improved with age would be a bit of an understatement. It has, at least graphically, metamorphosed into something I am actually interesting in watching. More »

High Voltage: Wii Could Use an RPG

Owen Good — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:00:00 EST

Fresh off getting Sega to be the publisher for its Wii FPS, The Conduit, High Voltage apparently is looking to deliver titles with a more traditional appeal to gamers. More »

Sega Confirmed As Conduit For The Conduit

Mike Fahey — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:20:00 EDT

As is often the case with rumors, confirmation one way is generally just over the horizon. Take yesterday's rumor that Sega was taking High Voltage Software's The Conduit for the Nintendo Wii under it's loving, publishing wing. Today Sega has issued an official press release announcing themselves as the game's publisher for North America and Europe, and Sega of America President Simon Jeffery tells us why. More »

The Conduit Snags Two Sheppards And A Sorbo

Mike Fahey — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:00:00 EDT

What would a futuristic first-person shooter be without top-notch Hollywood voice talent? Why it would be High Voltage Software's The Conduit for the Nintendo Wii, which dipped a few notches below top in their search to find the voice to match the characters in their upcoming game. Not that the actors they snagged aren't talented and entertaining. Mark A. Sheppard, the voice of the game's main character Mr. Ford, was Badger in Firefly for crying out loud. The man oozes quality. William Morgan Sheppard, the voice of John Adams, played Captain Witwicky in the Transformers movie and was the voice of Limburger in Biker Mice from Mars! More »

High Voltage Announces WiiWare Racer

Owen Good — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Still not having a publisher for The Conduit doesn't mean High Voltage can't work on other things, such as the above High Voltage Hot Rod Show a WiiWare title due out sometime before the end of the year. Crazy action, don't-give-a-shit physics and a Dukes of Hazzard air horn make this look good for a few laughs among friends. You can have up to four races simultaneous in split-screen mode. Let's see Mr. 36-Man Warcraft dude take on that. More »

The Conduit – Still Going Strong

AJ Glasser — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:00:00 EDT

Last time we checked in with High Voltage at PAX, they had only just gotten their hands on Wii MotionPlus. So I wasn’t too surprised to see that there really wasn’t much being done with it at the Nintendo Media Summit – but my proverbial socks were knocked off when I saw how much they’d done with the graphics in that short amount of time. More »

Getting a Look at The Conduit's Visuals

Owen Good — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT

This 90 second clip highlights the effort put into The Conduit's visual detail, no mean feat considering it's working on a Wii and that's not exactly a PS3. My visual palate is about like my wine palate, I pretty much like everything, and it's gotta be offensively wrong for me to pan it. That said, you guys are more sophisticated judges of a game's graphical chops, so I'm interested in what you have to say. Does The Conduit earn core-game bonafides with things like bump-mapping, the projected texture lights and depth of field focus changes? More »

The Conduit Already has MotionPlus, WiiSpeak, Sequel

Owen Good — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EDT

High Voltage chief operating officer Eric Nofsinger told MTV Multiplayer that The Conduit, due out March 2009, will support MotionPlus and WiiSpeak, and alludes to an already-planned sequel that will make greater use of those capabilities. More »

Conduit Devs: Wii Worth Better Games Than It's Getting

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:00 EDT

High Voltage's Conduit is already looking like it'll be one of, if not the, best-looking Wii game around. And it's a standard FPS to boot! No party games, no plastic add-ons, nothing but shooting in the first-person. Seems an awfully "core" game to be releasing exclusively on the Wii, so why'd they bother? Creative director Matt Corso has the answer: More »