Archive for September, 2009

Bungie initially conceived ODST as a small side project to produce in the lull between Halo 3‘s completion and Halo:Reach. Instead of featuring recognizable characters such as the Master Chief from previous games, the developers focused on the ODSTs. Story director Joseph Staten penned a detective story utilizing film noir settings, design, and characters. Composer [...]

This new U64 Video Article examines the prototype of the cancelled Sonic satAM video game. Enjoy! Edit

Far Cry is a FPS developed by Crytek Studios from Germany and published by Ubisoft in 2004 for Microsoft Windows. The codename of the project was “X-Isle”, a tech demo with dinosaurs on a jungle island. Crytek history starts with the ECTS 2000. It was there that they impressed all the big publishers with their [...]

Necessary Force is a canceled action game that was in development at Midway Newcastle. The game was supposed to be open-ended, with the player that would have been able to choose how to approach the mission. Unfortunately, Midway Newcastle shut down in august 2009 and the project had to be shelved. A preview of an [...]

Epic Mickey is a platform/action-adventure game designed by Warren Spector (of Deus Ex fame) and developed by Junction Point Studios exclusively for the Wii. The game was released in November 2010. As the title suggests, it stars the world-famous cartoon character Micky Mouse, however, after toying around with a magic paintbrush on a model of [...]

Toxic Crusaders is an animated series based on the Toxic Avenger films. It features Toxie, the lead character of the films leading a trio of misfit superheroes who combat pollution. Video games based on Toxic Crusaders were also produced by Bandai and Sega, which were released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, and Sega [...]

Street Fighter Alpha 2 (also known as Street Fighter Zero 2) is a 1996 fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom, and later ported to the SNES. Israel has found some beta SFA2 screens for the SNES/SFC version. These were published in the “Club Nintendo” magazine in Mexico. According to [...]

Fans of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II probably know how much fun the game was, but also how much stuff that was shown in the beta screens was later removed from the final game (yeah, we still need to write an article about that on U64…). KotOR II’s producer Chris Avellone in [...]

Tornado Alley is a cancelled action game that was in development by Atomic Planet in 2002 / 2003 for the Playstation 2, GameCube and Xbox. As we can read from the official press release, in the game the player would had to take control of one of the most powerful forces of Mother Nature, a [...]

In this U64 Video Article, I comment on the evolution of Halo: Combat Evolved, primarily the third person prototype. Enjoy! You can check the Halo – Beta page for more early screens and videos. Edit


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  • john doe: Any possibility to be able to play this on an actual n64 console via flashcart? would it require an [...]
  • Alex Atkin UK: I thought this game sounded interesting when it was first announced. Now seeing the information on [...]
  • Mike: I got ahold of "Final Fantasy VII Interactive Sampler CD" so if anyone is interested give me a shout [...]
  • AlexFDR: btw have you seen this. this is Wheatley's Acceptance Speech for the VGA Best Character Award: ht [...]
  • AlexFDR: wheatleys voice, in comparison with the final game, Sucks... the other guys voice is allot better th [...]