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Viral Survival

2009 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ112957846 ↗
Source-derived summary

Viral Survival, known in Japan as peakvox escape virus (ピークボックス エスケープ ウイルス, PīkuBokkusu Esukēpu Vairusu), is an action game developed by PeakVox and published by Fun Unit Inc. and NIS America for Wii in 2009-2011. The game was later released worldwide for Microsoft Windows via Steam under the name PeakVox Escape Virus HD on November 9, 2016.

Reception

The Wii version received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

Editorial summary

“Viral Survival” enters the record as 2009 video game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Viral, Survival and video can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Viral, Survival and video.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Viral Survival” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Viral, Survival and video provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q112957846. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2011 and 2016.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Viral Survival”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Viral Survival primary sources, Viral Survival archive and Viral research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Viral Survival” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.