Rumor has it that EA is halting all development for Steven Spielberg's next project, code named "LMNO" and set to release on the Xbox 360, PC, and PS3.
This is bad news because it seems like Spielberg's genius could have worked in this game, which has been described as "film-like"
Danny O'Dwyer, formerly of GameSpot, released a documentary on developer Arkane Studios today, through their Patreon-supported company, Noclip. Along with their employees and supported by 4,197 patrons, O'Dwyer managed to talk to the studio behind the Dishonored series about their projects, including three cancelled games.
I hope whatever Deathloop is ends up being amazing but then again considering who the publisher is I don't really have a lot of faith in the title.
EGMR writes: "Nobody wants to see cancelled games, especially when they end up being tragically heartbreaking stories. Whether a game is cancelled because of a business decision, development hell, legal drama or just bad timing, it’s never easy to swallow.
"However some cancellations hurt a lot more than others, and in this feature we’ll visit five cancelled games that seriously had the potential to be great, but have left us with little more than heartbreak and videos of what could have been."
Don't think it was ever even announced. We are kind of still due a Half-Life 2: Episode 3 if Valve stick to their original plan, but that seems very unlikely.
Half-Life 3 may never happen, but it doesn't stop me from dreaming...Also Star Wars 1313.
Hopefully Prey 2 gets resurrected. Maybe Machinegames?
Also Agent hasn't been cancelled yet.. It'll happen sometime in the distant future :3
It's been 8 years since the announcement and not a single word or screen shot or leak....it's been long dead just like Half-Life 3, time to accept it. I hope Prey 2 gets resurrected and says close to the space bounty hunter game we saw in demo.
Agent isn't cancelled. They're looking for developers for an asynchronous coop stealth experience. In Agent we were going to be spies going around the world with espionage and crazy stuff like that. I don't know if the game is still called Agent, but Rockstar is clearly still working on it.
I've always been under the impression that the guts of LMNO, at least the FPS Parkour elements, went on to become Mirrors Edge. There's been a tonne of examples in the industry of a game that started as something and then became something different.
Carmageddon is a good example, that started out as a Death Race 2000 game but they couldn't secure the licensing rights (please, nobody bring up that miserable modern reboot of Death Race)
Hell, even the playstation is an example of something that started out as one thing and then became something totally different. We'd be in a very different world today if Sony and Nintendo never came to odds with eachother XD
StarCraft: Ghost anyone? :)
Batlefront 3 also springs to mind, not this new DICE one though, I think there's leaked alpha footage on youtube and it looked pretty cool.
Ghost was created by Nihilistic. It's probably for the best that the game was cancelled as it would have been another pile of garbage.
I don't think the Resistance on vita was complete crap, but the CoD definitely was.
Vita Resistance wasn't complete crap, but it was crap. Good riddance to Nihilistic. Or whatever they changed their name to.
Many games have to travel through a long arduous journey before they can see the light of day and make it to the shelves. Unfortunately, some titles are not as lucky and end up getting cancelled. These are 10 games we wish wouldn't have been cancelled.
Prey 2 was Bethesda showing their true colours, unfortunately. The death of that was due to backhanded tactics in order to force an easy aquisition.
Was Prey 2 ever officially cancelled? I could have sworn Bethesda was trying to find another developer.
Anyway, not sure it counts cuz it wasn't technically in development but, Shenmue III.
You mean Shenmue III.
and what about games announced for platforms that never made it out but still released on other platforms?
Alien colonial marines on the wii-u comes to mind. despite its flaws, using the gamepad as a motion tracker screen just looked like a cool bonus.
edit: you made the correction. ;)
I believe someday Bethesda will make Prey 2 . I hope after the new Doom game comes out , ID Software will make a sequel to RAGE.
Prey 2 looked pretty damn good even from the E3 showing. It's not often we actually get a Bounty Hunter game.
Sure wish that awesome Avengers game could've gone all the way before THQ went under.
wats this game is about?
is overrated, making good films doesn't mean you can make a good game.
I guess EA doesn't like the fact he doesn't have any cut scenes in it. ;)
I thought EA was all about the new IPs now...oh maybes they just meant new IPs started this year.