Wii shooter The Conduit finds shelter at Sega

Developer High Voltage has sold shooting game The Conduit to Sega. The developer previously attracted attention with the graphics engine that he made especially for the Wii.

Publisher Sega proudly announces that it will release The Conduit. The shooting game will only appear for the Wii and will be available in stores in the spring of 2009. The game is being created by American developer High Voltage, based on the studio-built Quantum3 engine. The developer attracted a lot of attention at the E3 game fair this spring with the game and the engine. High Voltage’s software can blend textures from eight different sources and it can handle dynamic bump mapping. Furthermore, the engine can calculate shadows in real time and the streaming of content stored on disk has been improved. The engine should also enable effects that until now could only be achieved using vertex and pixel shaders.

Despite all the praise, High Voltage was not yet able to place the game with a publisher. Early October dived the game in a Nintendo presentation, but the console maker made it clear that he would not market the game. So now Sega announces that an agreement has been signed with High Voltage. In the game, aliens descend on Washington DC and it is up to protagonist Agent Ford to shoot them all. High Voltage wants to prove with the game that there is a market for Wii games in which violence and blood play a leading role.