High Voltage's showcase FPS receives a date, and there's some disappointing news for local multiplayer fans...

Currently showing at the New York Comic Convention (and you can check out fresh footage here, The Conduit is ever closer to completion. Chief Creative Officer at HVS Eric Nofsinger has been giving more information on the game.

Apparently, the official date set down is June 9th. Presumably, this applies only to a North American release at the this point, but confirmation of a European date is surely soon to follow.

Nofsinger also went into some details of the multiplayer aspects of The Conduit, or at least, the aspects that won't be there. He again reiterated there would be no split-screen multiplayer in the FPS, though heavily hinted that this could be rectified in a sequel. Disappointingly, he also confirmed that the game will not ship with the LAN capabilities that were present in earlier builds of the shooter. Allegedly, Nintendo would not allow it (Kuju's Battalion Wars 2 suffered a similar fate).

So it's bad news for those without an online set-up, but at least we can be rest assured the game is coming along according to schedule.