Quickjump reports that, according to a Nintendo news release, Disaster: Day of Crisis, being developed by Monolith Soft for the Wii won't make its July 2008 release date in Japan and has been delayed indefinitely.

Reason for the delay: lengthen the development process to improve the quality of the product. That has back-to-the-drawing-board written all over it, IMHO. The game involves surviving/coping with repeated natural disaster strikes while taking down a rogue military unit that's seized a nuclear weapon — 24 meets The Day After Tomorrow meets The Core meets ... So it will need big visuals and super realistic physics to be a winner. Maybe that's the problem, who knows.

Disaster: Day of Crisis Delayed Indefinitely [Quickjump Network, thanks El Cernex]

Just to show I don't have knee-jerk Microsoft hate every time an Xbox crashes, here is an utterly retarded story that involves a bricked 360, fire, and Arkansas. Dangerous combination, in all.

We start with Carl Olson of Little Rock. I would call him a gamer but I'm not sure what game he was playing, as he tells us that his 360 had already gone into Rings O' Death mode. Maybe he was enjoying 30 seconds of startup screens, I don't know.

The only screens we've seen of the Monolith developed Disaster: Day of Crisis focused on the game's "roaring pyroclastic flow." New screens from the game from Nintendo's recent Japanese presser show that the game is still alive and still evolving, but details from the company were virtually nonexistent. The new shots show off the new "Lungs" meter and a "Concentration" bar that we're quite curious about. I'm off to visit Nintendo tomorrow, so hopefully I'll get a better idea of what to expect from Disaster.

Hit the jump for an additional pair of shots.

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