Rumour: Blockbuster lists apparent Wii U launch titles

It’s that magical time of year just short of a month out from E3 when those crazy and wild rumours begin to appear. Here’s one of them. The UK arm of Blockbuster has apparently stocked up its internal systems with 25 Wii U titles to preorder. The list is quite good and features many games we already knew and a few that we didn’t.

• Aliens: Colonial Marines
• Assassin’s Creed III
• Batman: Arkham City
• Darksiders II
• DiRT 3
• Formula 1 All Stars
• Game Party
• Ghost Recon Online
• Just Dance 4
• Killer Freaks from Outer Space
• Marvel Super Heroes
• Metro Last Light
• Monsters Party
• New Super Mario Bros. Mii
• Ninja Gaiden III
• Pikmin 3
• Rabbids Party Land
• Raving Rabbids
• Rayman Legends
• Shield Pose
• Splinter Cell 6
• Sports Connection
• Tekken
• Your Shape 2013
• Zombie

We really doubt that there will be two Rabbids games out there for launch, Shield Pose is as likely to hit as a retail game as Project Hammer was and any of the other games outside the ones we already know could just be good guesses. We doubt as well that the system would launch with 25 games from day one and we think some of them would be staggered over a couple weeks if not a couple of months. There’s also evidence on NeoGAF from ex-Blockbuster management that suggest, like EB Games, that the retailer just puts these games up to drum up preorders.

Four weeks people! Then you’ll only have another 5 or 6 months to speculate with whatever we get out of E3.