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High Drama

This cycle is reaching a new level of financial sophistication.

Unprecedented.

Not very suprised, honestly. It seemed like too much of a clean escape on the company's part.

Rogue Squadron Wii. Pretty bad way for a new game to surface.

oooh yum

Rogue Squadron is the Western Dynasty Warriors. MILK IT.

How do we know that this isn't just the Wii version of RS3 that we know they threw together as a test run on the Wii system?

Rogue Squadron Wii could be anything. It could be that, it could be a tech demo for #4, it could be an actual running version of #4, or it could be a Metroid Prime Trilogy-esque NPC/Wiimake of the first 3 Squadron games.

It's all IGN's fault. Kid Icarus and all  ;D ;D ;D

Another Rumor Confirmed!!! Rogue Squadron Wii & White Harvest do exist!

I'd play any of those.  ;D

same here, but I don't want to assume it's one I'd rather have and be disappointed when it is not that.

The evidence sounds confusing. So:

Blue Harvest=Game?

White Harvest=Company?

But company's original name was Blue Harvest?

What it sounds like to me:

Project Blue Harvest = the transference of a game(and all company assets) to a company that would share the project name.
Once transfer was complete, the game took the name Blue Harvest, and the company switched its name to White Harvest to hide company involvement(?).

thats pretty crazy. Too bad they didn't hire all the old employees back, or forbid retained employees from conversating with past employees, to avoid this lawsuit.

I just hope it doesn't kill the games and this evanescent ghost of Factor 5 for good.

I think project Red Harvest is going to be their plans for extermination.

The business I work for has been screwed twice by companies doing this. They shut down and reopen under a new name therefore screwing their creditors. It wasn't worth the hassle of suing them to get them to pay their bills.

Yup, Blue Harvest has also another big interesting relevance (and no it's not linked to the Family Guy Blue Harvest Special), in the 1980's George Lucas used the name Blue Harvest to hide the production of Star Wars IV: Return of the Jedi from everybody.

DJ, you are correct, the game's code name was Blue Harvest(Star Wars: Rogue Squadron for Wii). The company that Factor 5's assets were transferred to  a company called Blue Harvest, Blue Harvest  quickly changed their name to White Harvest.

I think what would solve the problem here would be a sequel to Body Harvest.

I thought Rockstar made Body Harvest. This was before they changed their name to Rockstar.

I never played it but I'd like to.

Rockstar made Space Station Silicon Valley before they were Rockstar.  Could've been other games, too, but that's the one I recall.

It's not quite that simple. What is currently known as Rockstar Games used to be different design studios. "Rockstar Games" the label was created in 1998. The most famous studio in the Rockstar label is Rockstar North (developers of the console GTA games), originally known as DMA Design. Their only games for Nintendo systems were "Space Station Silicon Valley" (N64), "Body Harvest" (N64), "Uniracers" (N64), ''Grand Theft Auto" (GBC), "Lemmings 2: The Tribes" (SNES) and most recently "Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars" for DS.

I suppose Body Harvest, Uniracers and Space Station Silicon Valley could get added to the Virtual Console. Lemmings 2: The Tribes won't though since Sony owns the IP.

Uniracers was an SNES game. I think it was rated but never released on VC. Might have had some legal issues as well.

I meant to type SNES, don't know why I wrote N64.

I don't think it was ever rated for the Virtual Console, it was rated under the vague "Nintendo" category (whereas Virtual Console games are rated under the "Wii" category). There might be legal issues. Nintendo published the game and also co-developed it, by Take-Two might own parts of the game (the same way Square Enix owns parts of Super Mario RPG).

This is from a comment I read on another site. It lines up with what I've read elsewhere and seems to sum it up nicely.

So Uniracers, Earthbound... any other SNES games that aren't coming to VC because Nintendo's afraid of a lawsuit?

NoA is just lazy with the VC, lawsuits not withstanding.  =/