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Award-winning PC indie game Gone Home is no longer in development for consoles, developer Fullbright has confirmed. Gone Home creator Steve Gaynor stated as much to Eurogamer, explaining that Fullbright’s deal with struggling publisher Majesco and its now presumably defunct indie publishing arm Midnight City has come to a close …
Read More »BioWare Austin cancels Shadow Realms
Studio moves focus to Star Wars: The Old Republic
Read More »Paradox scraps RPG title Runemaster
Having revealed title just earlier this year, Paradox has scrapped PC and console RPG Runemaster. After much internal debate we have made the decision to freeze development of the project until further notice and move the development team working on it to other projects within Paradox Development Studio,” COO Susana …
Read More »Prey 2 officially killed six years after it was first unveiled
Bethesda has confirmed what the entire industry suspected to be true – Prey 2 has been cancelled. "It was game we believed in, but we never felt that it got to where it needed to be – we never saw a path to success if we finished it," Bethesda vice …
Read More »Canned Star Wars games detailed by Factor 5
Defunct developer Factor 5 was once working on two Star Wars games that sadly never made it to shelves. One was a Star Wars: Rogue Squadron trilogy, combining the three well-received titles released on Nintendo 64 and GameCube, for multiple platforms. The compilation would have seen all three games remastered …
Read More »Factor 5’s Julian Eggebrecht reveals canned Star Wars games
Scrapped projects include Rogue Squadron trilogy and multiplayer dogfighter for Xbox 360
Read More »Blizzard has cancelled MMO title Titan
Mystery MMO Titan has been scrapped by Blizzard after seven years of development. "We had created World of Warcraft, and we felt really confident that we knew how to make MMOs," Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime told Polygon. "So we set out to make the most ambitious thing that you could …
Read More »Blizzard cancels Project Titan
WoW firm’s unannounced MMO was “the most ambitious thing you could possibly imagine” but scrapped after seven years
Read More »Successfully Kickstarted sword fighting game Clang is scrapped
Sword fighting game Clang will now not be released, despite being successfully Kickstarted in 2012. Creator Neal Stephenson hit the pause button” on development a year ago, despite the fact the game had long passed its $500k Kickstarter goal, raising $526,125. Now the project has been cancelled outright. Last year, …
Read More »Braben’s The Outsider appears to be dead
David Braben’s missing political thriller The Outsider for PS3 and Xbox 360 looks to have been scrapped. Development stopped back in 2011/2012 as Frontier prioritised its partnership with Microsoft, developing first-party titles such as Kinectimals, Kinect Disneyland and Zoo Tycoon, as well as the crowd-funded and hotly-anticipated Elite: Dangerous.Eurogamernow reports …
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