[UPDATE: The Condut gets new US and European release dates]

Sega’s Wii exclusive first-person shooter The Conduit appears to have suffered a release delay. 

When it picked up the publishing rights to the title back in October last year Sega announced that the game was “slated to release in spring 2009", but a new trailer now lists the title as “coming summer 2009”. 

We’ve left a message with Sega for confirmation of the delay and the reasoning behind it, and to check what developer High Voltage Software will be using the extra time to achieve. 

The studio has not been shy about hyping the game, with producer Josh Olson recently telling our sister site CVG that The Conduit will be both the best-looking game on the Wii and offer the best online experience on the system. Certainly, it seemed promising during our most recent experience with it, covered in issue 201, which is on sale now.

Sega of America and High Voltage have told Joystiq that the release of The Conduit has been delayed by two weeks, from June 9 (spring) to June 23 (summer).

The developer’s chief creative officer, Eric Nofsinger, told the site that the game's development hadn't slipped, but that extra Wii Speak testing and approval time was required.

A Sega of Europe spokesperson told Edge that The Conduit will now release in Europe on June 26.