Rumour: $50 Million Video Game Cancelled

You may have already deduced this in light of the complete absence of marketing for the game, but CVG report that long-in-development-hell, ex-Midway game This Is Vegas has finally been put out of its misery.


August 17, 2010

Rumour: Lucasarts Cancels Force Unleashed 3

New Lucasarts president Paul Meegan certainly isn’t wasting any time. Barely two months into the job and we hear he’s already swinging the axe and cancelling high profile sequels.


August 10, 2010
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Force Unleashed II Cancelled On PSP

Hope you weren’t hoping to play Force Unleashed II on the PSP, because that version’s just been binned.


August 1, 2010
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No Refunds For Cancelled Game Rile Zynga Users

Casual game players still have hardcore priorities, as social game behemoth Zynga is discovering after its plans to drop Street Racer on Monday without refunding players’ balances incited a user riot.


July 12, 2010
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The Mortal Kombat Game That Never Was

There are a lot of Mortal Kombat games that should never have been made. This one at least had the foresight to be cancelled before it saw the light of day.


April 13, 2010
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Why The Halo MMO Was Cancelled

A few years ago, Microsoft-owned Ensemble Studios, the team behind Age of Empires, was working on a Halo massively-multiplayer online game, code-named Titan. That project ended up a bust, and was cancelled by Microsoft. Here’s why.


March 27, 2010
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There Once Was A PS2 Assassin’s Creed Game

The first Assassin’s Creed, much like the second, only came out on three systems: the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. But did you know that, alongside production of the original game, another was in development for the PS2 & Xbox?


January 21, 2010
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Canned Natal Two Finger Game Concept Art

The French developer behind DS title Big Bang Mini, Arkedo, was thinking about making a game for Microsoft’s upcoming Natal motion system, but has decided against it.


January 18, 2010

Rumour: Leaked ‘Tech Demo” Footage Of Final Fantasy: Fortress

This is a two-minute, 30-second video said to be of a tech demonstration of “Fortress,” the Final Fantasy project GRIN was said to have been working on when the Swedish studio closed.


January 12, 2010
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Another Game From The GRIN Grave

Our Swedish friends weren’t just working on a Final Fantasy project when the studio went belly-up last year. A former GRIN artist has posted concepts from a ninja action/adventure game, and it sounds like it was a new IP.