Your Wii Remote Is Calling

Over the years, there have been a lot of horror stories/urban legends originating from Japan. Mostly released in movie form, stories like The Ring, One Missed Call, or The Grudge were originally Japanese films that were remade as American ones. Seeking to follow along with that trend, Konami has announced a new game for the Wii entitled Calling.

The game centers around a mysterious Japanese website that spirits and ghosts use to entice the living into some type of dead zone straight out of a Verizon Wireless commercial. Legend has it that once the user gains access to the mysterious site's chatroom, they will begin receiving calls from things that go bump in the night, and ultimately wind up dead. In the game, the Wii remote acts as a cell phone, which functions as a gateway to these undead zones. Players will play as someone whose responsibility it is to investigate the claims and find out just what this spooky website stuff is all about.

If you are not sold on the scariness of this title, just imagine playing this game in a dark room around midnight and suddenly a crackly voice comes over your Wii remote's speaker. Who knew poor speaker quality could actually be used for good?

Look for more details on the release of this game as it comes closer to its release date sometime in the Spring of 2010.

Via Destructoid

Image Via GoNintendo (note the heart rate in the above image, wouldn't this be a good usage for the Vitality Sensor?)