Oboro Muramasa Confirmed for North America

So there was the word on the street about a Nintendo Power article claiming Oboro Muramasa would be renamed to Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and be heading to North American shores. Since I never could dig up scans for the alleged article, I had to call it a rumor (responsible journalism ftw).

Well XSEED and Marvelous, via a press release to IGN, revealed that the game will indeed be making the jump under the new name.

Muramasa: The Demon Blade will be available for Nintendo Wii sometime in 2009. While this is definitely nice confirmation, it still doesn't give us a solid release to point to. My predictions align the Japanese and North American versions to near-simultaneous release, so I guess we'll just have to wait til TGS starts later this week to know for sure.

Either way, good news is good.