Kenneth McCulloch, a developer at Precursor Games—the developers who want to create a sequel to Eternal Darkness—is now facing child pornography charges according to Bullet News Niagara and the Niagara Regional Police Service.
McCulloch is being charged with "one count each of possession of child pornography, making child pornography available and accessing child pornography," to be specific.
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Shadow of the Eternals has had quite a tumultuous development cycle, ending in its indefinite delay last September. Today, we’ve heard that the project isn’t properly “dead”, but we shouldn’t expect anything new to come out about it any time soon.
Agreed. So it's not CANCELED canceled but it might as well be for the forseeable future.
...I hear ya. I'm not getting involved in this crap again. If they ever release a worthy successor to Eternal Darkness, then happy, happy day.
Until then, though, I have no expectations for anything noteworthy to come from this team ever again.
I really wish nintendo would pick this up as well. If they advertised it as survival horror they might just get a couple console sales as people who want survival would probably want it. The first eternal darkness didn't hugely, but i don't think it was a priority for the big n at the time.
I think this game would really help the Wii u , ppl want this game it'll sell some consoles. Not a lot but it'll only help
I agree, it's not really fair to demonize Denis because he was enthusiastic and brash about the game he was making years and years ago. Some people really need to let it go. The footage of Shadows of the Eternal looked solid, so I hope they do end up bringing the game to production. This guy has had a terrible run of bad luck and he has apologized more than once for his past behavior, I hope he gets to move forward with his game.
I hope this game lives to see the light of day, the horror genre could always use a new title.
This game would be good for Wii U because it really shows off the graphical capabilities of the console.
Fingers crossed Nintendo is paying attention. It wouldn't cost them very much to help publish this game.
"Precursor Games has had a couple of stabs at crowdfunding Shadow of the Eternals, which is pitched as a spiritual successor to the GameCube classic Eternal Darkness and was aiming for a Wii U release."
-Andy Green, Nintendo Life
I hope they figure out some way to get this to come out. Preferably on something other than Wii U. It's like they were trying to make the Kickstarter fail.
good lord how long will they drag this on. its unfortunate but this game just doesnt have enough of an audience
How long will Dennis Dyack live? That's exactly how long he's capable of dragging his projects on, so there you go. Hence why I didn't buy in, and hence why he didn't get his funding. Those with enough cash know him too well, and they know he isn't the same guy who brought us Eternal Darkness back in the day.
How about you get over Dyacks's existence? Sheesh. Let the man work on his projects, you have every right to ignore them. And newsflash, you goober, his name is in the Creative Director credit for Eternal Darkness, so yeah, he in fact IS the same guy.
Eternal Darkness wasn't really a massively popular game, it barely sold 400k copies worldwide. To make a spiritual successor of it and expect many people to pay in advance, that isn't realistic.
Precursor Games, developer of unsuccessful Kickstarter candidate Shadow of the Eternals, has disbanded.
this is a good example where releasing episodic dlc doesn't work even if fans are heavily involved in determining the course of the story. Gamers like to be amazed by what developers has to offer them, not what gamers have to offer to themselves. Most gamers just want to sit back and see if the game is good or bad. The moment I heard this was an episode thing rather than a full fledged game, I was immediately turned off by the idea.
I had not heard that it was to be episodic...wow yeah, what a disappointment.
I still think Dyack should've worked on the ED:SR sequel right after finishing the first.
I thought they weren't going to make it episodic anymore on the second kickstarter campaign. Could be wrong though.
Yeah that was the plan, but in suppose things just didn't work out or people didn't know that it was all 1 game.
Meh sounds like Dyack can't even get a kickstarter project right
I have to agree with you on that. A very sloppy attempt to persuade people to support. It sounded like a very ambitious project, but it was also a bit hard to picture where it was headed. We're not even sure if a lot of people were interested or maybe that was all the support they could get. IMO, I also feel that Eternal Darkness seems a bit out of date when compared with today's standards. I mean, people can go back and play REmake and still enjoy the game as it is, but Eternal Darkness just hasn't aged well in terms of story and gameplay mechanics.
"IMO, I also feel that Eternal Darkness seems a bit out of date when compared with today's standards. I mean, people can go back and play REmake and still enjoy the game as it is, but Eternal Darkness just hasn't aged well in terms of story and gameplay mechanics."
What exactly is your point in saying this? And comparing it to a remake? Isn't Eternal Darkness being mechanically dated even more of an incentive to make a modern version?
Imo he shouldnt be there doing a kickstarter in the first place , the whole excuse behind Xmen destiny was precisely funding such projects . And there were allegations about the misuse of the budget for destiny .
Dyack's name is poison. Such a shame because he was responsible for Blood Omen Legacy of Kain.
After getting so much free money to drag on projects that ended as turds (while simultaneously intentionally breaking copyrights against EPIC games), Dennis deserves to fail. He should hit rock bottom and then get a job where he isn't in charge. He needs to eat a few hundred humble pies before anyone trusts him again.
I saw a comment on Joystiq from someone saying they had actually smiled at this story because he thought they "finally caught Dyack red-handed."
I think that speaks volumes itself for how sick some of Dyack/Precursor's haters are. Or perhaps they were trolling.
Anyway, it's good for the studio to distance themselves from someone like that, but it sucks that people are going to connect the two anyway. I get it, they have a shady history; but for goodness' sake, just let them make their damn game.
Why are people hammering on the studio for this? I highly doubt they'd do the same if Half-Life 2 or Halo or such had a reported pedophile on the development team.
I get people don't like Dyack, but badgering him, his people, and his game for the icky personal life of one member is complete nonsense.
Seriously, why is the shadows of the eternals image on this article? This game has nothing to do with child porn or getting arrested, it needs to be replaced with a pic of the person that was arrested. Really game journalists, get your s?!@ together and stop slandering this games name.
I dont care who this is...
Mr Miyamoto, Kojima, Levine, etc...anybody
if they are guilty of child porn anything.
they should be removed from society.
you cannot fix this "sickness".