Cube.IGN is reporting (to the general public at last, it was Insider locked for a few days) that the GameCube version of Zelda has been delayed, with a February 2003 release looking more likely at this point. It was originally set to ship in December. Cube owners still have Mario Sunshine and Metroid Prime to look forward to, but it's still somewhat disappointing news. An official announcement is expected during or after E3, which starts on Wednesday.

A new demo of the Unreal engine powered FPS Mobile Forces was supposed to be released today (story), but Rage Software sends word it has been delayed for a few days for additional testing.

It's well past 12PM CET and there's no New World Order demo yet. Indeed, it's been delayed. According to Project Three Interactive, a bug was found that needs to be fixed before public release. The demo should now be released around Easter weekend.

To The Game has a press release up, which has word that the 3D RTS Warrior Kings has been delayed in the US. Originally due out this March, the game will now be released April 15. The game is already out in Europe.

According to Gone Gold, the third person assassin game Hitman 2 has been delayed. Originally due out in March, the game should now be released in June. Thanks HLF.

For those of you waiting for the new Return to Castle Wolfenstein patch, Activision sends word it has been delayed until tomorrow. If you missed the news about the patch, you can read up here.

Over at Voodoo Extreme is a post by Mark Rein, who explains why Unreal 2 has been delayed. As mentioned yesterday, Unreal 2 is now due around Christmas time instead of May / June which many people expected. Mark Rein says "Unreal2 will stand up to any FPS game no matter who makes it or what tech it uses. I'm not saying that to disparage anyone else's game or tech - there will be lots of great FPS games this year that we'll all play and enjoy - but Unreal2 will answer to no one".

According to Computer and Video Games, Piranha's Die Hard game Nakatomi Plaza has been delayed until the end of April. The extra development time will be used to improve AI and character animations.

I see on Blues News that CG Online has posted a little Q&A feature with Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games. He talks about his upcoming RPG Dungeon Siege and the decision to delay the release until April.

We received an email from the Belgian game site GamePower where they are reporting that Raven's Soldier of Fortune 2 has been delayed until the end of the year despite earlier reports the game would ship early this year. According to GamePower, this delay should be officially announced by Activision soon. Through some sources I can confirm that the game has not been delayed until the end of the year, but we'll have to wait and see what Activision has to say.

PC.IGN has a much more informative interview with Bruce Shelley of Ensemble talking about the recent announcement of Age of Mythology being delayed until September. Here's the first part of the answer to why:

Everything. It's a brand new engine for us and a 3D world. Everything was just a little more difficult to do than we thought. One of the big problems is the single player campaign. We're very ambitious about it. It's going to have over thirty scenarios and while that's not the problem per se, a lot of things have to be done before we can really get into the meat of doing the single player -- AI stuff, things like that. Without those being finished it's hard to actually nail down completed scenarios and be sure about them. A lot of that stuff is still coming together and it's delaying the single player campaign.

Another interview about the game and its release date is up over at Voodoo Extreme.

Because game delays make us all cry, GameSpot has an interview with Bruce Shelley of Ensemble discussing the recently announced delay of Age of Mythology. They seem pretty confident that they will hit the new set date, but then again check out this PR announcing Unreal that would ship in 1996. They were pretty sure they were gonna hit that release date too. Yes, crazy nostalgia day!

Age of Empires stole many of my evenings away, here's to hoping that Age of Mythology can continue that tradition.

Bummer news of the morning, according to this report on GameSpot Serious Sam 2 will not be making it out on to shelves this year. The reason they gave was that they spent too much time answering Maarten's interview. Blame Maarten!

German publisher CDV let us know through one of their weekly emails that the MMORPG Neocron has been delayed until the first quarter of 2002. The game was originally to ship sometime this year. "This extensive beta testing period enables us to ensure a much more stable gameplay"

Bummer of the evening... Looks like Planetside which was looking quite good at E3 is not going to be showing up for a while still. A recent update from Verant (Thanks Sean) mentions a 2003 expected release date: In addition, Dave Georgeson made a messageboard post (Thanks VE) which gives a little more on the matter (Well, not much)

Update: PlanetSide is little behind that of Star Wars Galaxies. McDaniel expects the game to be ready for release in Q1 2003.

D. Georgeson: The information in that thread is in no way official. The game will take as long to make as it takes. That's very grey, but it's the only answer I'm prepared to give at this time.

So uh... yeah I guess that means we wont bee seeing Planetside for a while. Bummer because it's purty and I was looking forward to finding out what is so $10/month special about it.

GameSpot has gotten word of a possible delay of Morrowind. This is based on a couple of etailers updating their release info. Thing is sometimes publishers tell etailers the right thing, and sometimes it's just magic smoke coming out of their butts.

Well we've been seeing of mentions of supply problems and a few other misc things that were pointing towards the XBox not quite making it out on time, but MS has been hanging on to that ship date that was announced at E3. Looks like they changed their mind though:

``We just looked at a bunch of things and just simply said, 'You know, Nov. 15 is going to be the right date,''' O'Rourke said. Microsoft also is no longer making firm predictions about how many units will be in stores at launch. Previously, the company said it would ship 600,000 to 800,000 machines for the now-scrapped Nov. 8 launch. O'Rourke said the company was no longer using that number, but wouldn't elaborate. [snip]

So... head to head with GameCube once again. Thanks Teamxbox.com

Ubi Soft has announced that they will be delaying the release of their Rogue Spear addon Black Thorn. According to HomeLan Fed, the game currently contains missions that involve planes and terrorists and that the content of those missions will probably be changed. Seeing how this is a terrorist / counter-terrorist game, they might as well change everything. Red Storm's other military game, Ghost Recon, is still due later this year.

While Tom Clancy’s Rogue Spear: Black Thorn features a very strong moral component and realistic portrayal of the fight against terrorism, Ubi Soft has decided to delay the release of the game and modify the content to avoid stirring emotions unnecessarily and unwillingly offending the public.
As a result, the game’s release will be postponed from the originally scheduled date of October 9th until further notice from the company.

A while back we carried a story about Medal of Honor being delayed until 2002. Everyone got hissy and EA backtracked and said that the game was on schedule after all. Well how about this.. Now it's delayed again! GameSpot has gotten official confirmation (and some screens Thanks Mike & Blues) that the title is delayed.

While the extra wait might seem disheartening, fans of the series should take comfort in the fact that the decision to extend Allied Assault's development time by an extra four months was ultimately made for the benefit of the game itself. [e3 screenshots]

Well that's good news, I thought they were gonna delay it because they couldnt decide on the color of the box!

GameSpot has a news item up reporting on Take Two's quarterly-report conference call today, where among other things, they talked about Duke Nukem Forever. It's not clear whether they were talking exclusively about the console versions or not, but Take Two apparently stated that the game will not be out until 2002, and will be released for both the Playstation 2 and Xbox consoles. Regarding N-Space, and their PS2 title Duke Nukem: D-Day, there wasn't anything specific mentioned, but the game has not been canceled, and it looks like N-Space will most likely be handling the console ports of DNF. Of course, even if the PC version is pushed until next year, it's still not technically a delay, since no release date was ever announced to begin with.