I Am Alive

In an attempt to organize the hellfire of media and information pouring from this year’s E3, here is a list of compiled release dates for titles announced in and around the time of the expo.

Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway/ September, 2008 (recent trailers said August, delayed again it seems)

Yakuza 2/ Septermber 9th, 2008

Dead Space/ October 21st, 2008

Fable 2/ October, 2008

Little Big Planet/ October, 2008

Tom Clancy’s EndWar/ October 14th

Gears of War 2/ November 7th, 2008

Tomb Raider: Underworld/ November 21st, 2008 (Euro release)

Resident Evil 5/ March 13th, 2009… A Friday, how convenient.

I Am Alive/ Spring 2009

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At the very end of Ubisoft’s press briefing I Am Alive was given the pun-intended introduction of a brand that’s sure to “shake up the industry”. In what is without a doubt a pre-rendered trailer, we meet Adam; a rather scraggly man running through dust filled halls of rubble.

Six days earlier, Adam was a business sort working in Chicago until an earthquake tore the city to pieces. Noteworthy is ruaumoko.com shown in the background — a URL owned by Ubisoft. In Māori mythology Ruaumoko is the son of Rangi and Papa, a part of their creation myth. The only problem is that the kid has never been born, forever stuck in his mother’s womb and his movements are said to cause earthquakes.

So you heard it here first: Ubisoft’s I Am Alive is about giant unborn babies causing cataclysmic modern day disasters… Probably not, but the reference is interesting nonetheless.

Update: ruaumoko.com now redirects to iamalivegame.com, let the Cloverfield style speculation and advertising begin! Although, hopefully I Am Alive can backup its clever marketing with an equally clever game.