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Nico/Ico/Wanda and the Giant Statue? News
By G. Turner
Posted September 10, 2004

Now, note this is all speculative, as he and I are unable to read one word of Japanese, much less a website full of the language. But check out the brand spankin' new site for one of the games included in Sony's countdown annoucement, Wanda.

Now, that pic looks quite similar designwise to some 'leaked' pics allegedly of Ico 2, especially this and this one.

And then I saw over at Insert Credit that "Word on the street is that the new ICO game will be titled Wonder and the Giant Statue. Guess we'll see." - replace 'Wonder' with Wanda, and you can already see the Giant Statue in the pic and perhaps, maybe just maybe we'll have a new Ico Sept 24th, 2005!

Update: 1UP has the finer details - turns out, Sept. 24th is when more details sites go up, not a reference to a release date. So it goes.

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