Archive for the ‘pc / mac’ Category
Hitman: Blood Money [PS2 XBOX X360 - Beta]
16 Mar 2010Hitman: Blood Money is an action / stealth game developed by IO Interactive and published by Eidos Interactive in 2006 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and PC. Vicente noticed various differences in the beta screenshot that you can see in the gallery below:
Less persons and guards in the level “You better watch out”
Agen [...]
Voodoo Islands [PC/PS2 - Cancelled]
14 Mar 2010Voodoo Islands is a cancelled open world action adventure that was in development in 2002 / 2004 by Spirit / 10TACLE Studios for the Playstation 2 and PC. Gamers were able to play in three different modes in both online and offline play, following the life of a pirate, attacking ships, searching hidden treasures and [...]
Inuits (White Fear) [PS2/PC - Cancelled]
11 Mar 2010Inuits is a cancelled action adventure that was in development by Widescreen Games from 2002 to 2004, to be published by Microids for the Playstation 2 and PC. Originally announced with the title “White Fear” the game told the story of a young shaman named Iru as he moved to deliver his people from the [...]
Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler’s Green is a FPS based on the George Romero zombie horror movie Land of the Dead, that was developed by Brainbox Games (now Digital Extremes) and published in 2005 by Groove Games, for PC and the original XBOX. As we can read on Mobygames, the project was [...]
BioShock 2 [PC X360 PS3 - Beta]
6 Mar 2010BioShock 2 is a FPS developed by 2K Marin and Irrational Games, released in february 2010 for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Users at 2K Forums noticed many beta differences in the early trailers of the game, especially in the “Hunting the Big Sister” demo:
It would have been possible to explore areas from the [...]
Ragnarok Online [PC - Alpha / Beta]
2 Mar 2010Ragnarok Online is a MMORPG developed by GRAVITY and originally released in South Korea in 2001 for PC. While looking at some videos on Youtube, Sumikuroi noticed many differences in the alpha / beta footage:
Only 1 hair style
Different maps
No zoom
Different hud
Most the options ingame not working or disabled
Different skill tree and job change
Different marks in [...]
Alone [PC - Alpha / Proto]
17 Feb 2010Alone is a cancelled horror FPS that was in development by Red Paperclip Games for about a year. After they completed an alpha build, new funding caused Alone to go from the Game Maker Engine to the CryEngine2 Engine, but sadly after about three months work stopped abruptly.
Today Alone no longer exists and there is [...]
Hei$t (Heist) [X360/PS3/PC - Cancelled]
14 Feb 2010Heist (HEI$T) is a cancelled action game that was in development by inXile Entertainment and would have been published by Codemasters for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. The game was to be set in San Francisco, California, circa 1969, where the players would have been able to control a group of criminals as [...]
Dealer: Chronic, Pills & Coke is a cancelled action game / third person shooter that was in development by Nagual Games in 2004, for Playstation 2, Xbox and PC. As we can read in the original press release, the game was set in a huge metropolis, with a lot of driving and shooting, a gameplay [...]
Saint Row 2 [X360/PS3/PC - Beta]
26 Jan 2010Saints Row 2 is a sandbox / action game game developed by Volition Inc and published by THQ for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2008. James Tsai, SR2’s Lead Designer, in and interview with IGN revealed that some content had to be removed from the game before it was published:
JT: In the early [...]
Division 9 [PC/X360? - Cancelled]
18 Jan 2010What we have here is an unreleased game by Irrational Games, known as Division 9. The premise for this game is similar to the Left 4 Dead franchise, it featured a co-op survival style gameplay, in a mass city with Zombies as the main antagonists. It also featured complex FPS elements such as game changing [...]
So there is this game, you might’ve heard about it: Heroes of Might and Magic 3. You might have heard of it’s expansion Armaggedon’s Blade. You might also have heard of Conflux, one of the “towns” (town = faction) that was added with the expansion.
Oh yeah, you might say, what’s so special about that town?
Well, here’s [...]
Alliance: The Silent War [PC - Unreleased]
14 Jan 2010Alliance: The Silent War was a game in development by company Windward Mark Interactive. It’s important to note that Alliance has not been cancelled definitely: Windward Mark Interactive would love to continue work, if the game recieves proper interest and publishing / funding.
The five founders Asi Lang, Chris Colosi, Brad Kittenbrink, Palmer Truelson, and Eric [...]
Explodemon [PS3/Wii/PC - Prototype]
13 Jan 2010Explodemon! is an upcoming 2.5D side scrolling platform game in development by Curve Studios for PlayStation Network, Microsoft Windows and WiiWare. The project is described as “what Treasure would create if they mixed Yoshi’s Island with Half-Life 2″, and is inspired by elements from games as diverse as Street Fighter II, Halo, Super Metroid and [...]
Nuclear Strike [PSX/PC - Beta]
11 Jan 2010Nuclear Strike is a multi-directional shooter developed by Electronic Arts and released in 1997 for the PlayStation and PC. DCodes7 has noticed that there are some data files named “E3*” in the game’s disk, that are probably releated to a beta demo that could have been used in a past E3 to show Nuclear Strike to [...]
Jurassic Park: Trespasser [PC - Beta]
8 Jan 2010Jurassic Park: Trespasser is a FPS developed by DreamWorks Interactive, which was released in 1998 for Microsoft Windows after much hype and anticipation. The game had a development period of more than three years. Money was the biggest hurdle in the development of Trespasser.
The game severely went over-budget several times throughout its development. Second only [...]
Pickles [GC/PC - Prototype]
20 Dec 2009Pickles is a prototype for a platform / adventure game that was developed by Santa Cruz Games in 2005 / 2006 for the GameCube and PC. They created a playable demo for the game running on their own engine, but it’s currently unknown if they ever tried to pitch the project to a publisher. The [...]
Agent [X360/PC - Cancelled]
30 Nov 2009Agent is a cancelled action adventure that was in development at Ensemble Studios before their closure, probably in the works for the Xbox 360 and PC. The project was revealed in an article about the “last visit” at the studios by Gamasutra, in which they were able to check some of Ensemble’s lost projects. Agent [...]
Titanium Angels [PS2/PC - Cancelled]
29 Nov 2009Titanium Angels is a cancelled action adventure that was in development in 2000 by Mobius Entertainment (now known as Rockstar Leeds). As we can see in the screenshots and the video below (that show a 40% complete build), the player would have used a girl named “Carmen Blake”, a bounty hunter with an armored spider [...]
Fuel is a racing game developed by Asobi Studio for Playstaion 3 and Xbox 360, published by Codemasters in 2009. The project originally started in 2005 as a different game known as “Grand Raid Offroad”, which was used as a tech demo to build on the final version. We are not sure about the general [...]
Parasite [PSX/PC - Cancelled]
2 Nov 2009Parasite is a cancelled side-scrolling action adventure that was in development by Sony Interactive (while other sources report that it was created by french Virtual Studio or Psygnosis / Sony Studio Liverpool) and it was going to be published in 1996, for the original Playstation and PC. Even if it looked nice and it could [...]
Engalus [PC - Cancelled]
1 Nov 2009Crytek was founded by the Yerli brothers in 1999 in Coburg, Germany. Its history starts with the ECTS 2000, where Crytek impressed all the big publishers with their tech demos at the NVIDIA booth. [Infos from Wikipedia] In the same year Crytek announced that one of these tech demos was going to became a “full” [...]
Fallen Kingdoms [XBOX/PC - Cancelled]
27 Oct 2009Fallen Kingdoms is a cancelled western RPG that was in development in 2004 / 2005 by Warthog Games for PC and the original XBOX. The gameplay would have probably been something like Baldur’s Gate, with real time combat and various quests to complete. The scenario was interactive and the player was able to burn down [...]
Leisure Suit Larry 8 [PC - Cancelled]
25 Oct 2009Leisure Suit Larry 8, tentatively subtitled Lust in Space (as well as “Explores Uranus” in some references), was a computer game part of the Leisure Suit Larry series, which was in early development in 1998. Only some very early test stuff was being done while Al Lowe waited for the project to be approved, but [...]
Ascendant (Dungeons) [PS3/X360/PC - Beta]
22 Oct 2009As reported before, Big Huge Games was working on a new, THQ-published RPG for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. When THQ was hit by financial troubles, Big Huge Games was sold to 38 Studios where it seems that they still work on Ken Rolston’s new “masterpiece”. It’s currently unknown if this game will ever be [...]
PE FPS [X360/PS3/PC - Cancelled]
21 Oct 2009In 2008 Paradigm Entertainment were working on a prototype for a new First Person Shooter for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC, that would have been published by THQ. They developed a playable demo, but the project was later cancelled for unknown reasons.
Thanks to Hey Hey for the contribution!
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Fallout 3 [X360/PS3/PC - Beta & Unused Stuff]
19 Oct 2009Fallout 3 is a action RPG developed by Bethesda Game Studios in 2008, for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. As we can read on Wikipedia, the F3 project was initially under development by Black Isle Studios, a studio owned by Interplay Entertainment, under the working title Fallout 3: Van Buren.
When Interplay went bankrupt [...]
Project Touhou is a Japanese PC game series made by one man, ZUN (working under Team Shanghai Alice), and usually, nothing is left over from the beta’s. However, in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, the sixth Touhou game, a character known as Rin Satsuki was originally meant to be a playable character, although was cut out [...]
Rock [PC - Cancelled]
18 Oct 2009Rock is a space combat sim / mech sim / FPS hybrid that was in development in 1999 / 2000 by Singletrack for PC, but later cancelled because the studio was closed. The team planned to combine 3 genres into a single game, to let the player a lot of freedom in how to resolve [...]
Crazy Car Championship [XBOX / PC - Cancelled]
17 Oct 2009Crazy Car was a racing game in development by Synaptic Soup in 2001, but it was soon cancelled, probably because they never found a publisher interested in the project. Players would have been able to build vehicles from many weird components and take part in races over a series of flying islands.
Thanks to Celine for [...]
O.S.S. [PC? - Concept]
16 Oct 2009In 2000, Pandemic Studios developed a game concept called “OSS”. It was set in World War II and the player was involved in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a United States intelligence agency, as the game’s title reveals. OSS never entered production at Pandemic Studios for unknown reasons. The platform of the game was [...]
Six Days in Fallujah [X360/PS3/PC - Cancelled]
12 Oct 2009Six Days in Fallujah was a third person shooter developed by Atomic Games for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The title was set in Iraq and an attempt to recreate the 2004 battle of the US army against the Iraqi insurgency. Originally announced for a release in 2010, publisher Konami decided to retreat from [...]
Far Cry 2 [X360/PS3/PC - Alpha]
1 Oct 2009Far Cry 2 is an open-ended FPS developed for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC by Ubisoft Montreal and published in 2008 by Ubisoft. Crytek, the developers of the original game, were not involved in the development of Far Cry 2. A pre-alpha video of the game, showcasing the visuals and 13 minutes of gameplay [...]
Far Cry (X-Isle) [PC - Alpha & Tech Demo]
29 Sep 2009Far 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 [X360/PS3/PC - Cancelled]
29 Sep 2009Necessary 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 could 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 [...]
Doom 3 [PC/XBOX - Beta]
26 Sep 2009Doom 3 is a science fiction horror videogame developed by id Software and published by Activision. The game was first shown in Febuary 2001, as a tech demo showing of id’s newest graphics engine. The game has had many cuts and changes during its long development cycle. One of the most noticeable differences is the [...]
Borderlands [X360/PS3 - Beta]
13 Sep 2009Borderlands is a science fiction FPS with RPG elements developed by Gearbox Software for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. The game was originally revealed in the September 2007 issue of Game Informer magazine. [Info from Wikipedia]
When the game was shown again in April 2009, Gearbox changed the graphic stile of the game using a [...]
Batman: Arkham Asylum [X360/PS3/PC - Beta]
9 Sep 2009Batman: Arkham Asylum is an action-adventure stealth video game based on DC Comics’ Batman for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. It was developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Eidos Interactive in conjunction with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Comics and was released in 2009. [Info from Wikipedia]
Throughout Batman: Arkham Asylums development [...]
Lone Wollf is a cancelled First Person RPG in the vein of TES: Oblivion, that was in development by Ksatria Gameworks, a studio from Singapore. The project was meant to be published for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, but sadly the studio closed down after the investor failed to secure additional funding.
Lone Wolf [...]
Dead Space [X360/PS3/PC - Beta]
5 Sep 2009Dead Space is a third-person survival horror / action game, developed by Visceral Games (formerly known as EA Redwood Shores) for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. As we know the game was started with a Dead Space prototype for the original Xbox, but even the “next gen” version had some slightly differences in its [...]
From the early version of the game to the final release, there was not much difference. Some were minor differences such as a cut weapon like the AT4 or more noticeable ones being an original look for the Ultranationalist enemies. In the first trailer for the game, Imran Zakhaev was seen with both his arms [...]
[Indie Unseen] Athena HL2 Mod – Cancelled
22 Jul 2009Athena is a cancelled Class-based Multi-player War that was in development by the Athena Team, a HL2 mod team. The project started on November 2007 and the gameplay ranged from Vehicular Combat to NPC Combat to Intense Warfare. All development of Athena went to a complete halt on May 21th, 2009 when the source code [...]
Survivor [XBOX / PC - Cancelled]
11 Jul 2009Survivor was a “Disaster Survival” game that was in development at Replay Studios in 2004 for the original XBOX and PC. The player would have had to survive through “historical” disasters from the 20 – 21 th century, like the Titanic, Hurricane Andrew or the 9/11. The project was later cancelled, maybe because of the [...]
Biosphere (Genewars) [PC - Beta]
1 Jul 2009Genewars is a real time strategy game released in 1996 for the PC and developed by Bullfrog Productions. The gameplay mixed some elements of strategy, along with minor terrain editing and cross-species breeding. Originally the project was started in 1991 as an Amiga CD32 game, known as “Biosphere” but it was later postponed and reworked [...]
Bam [PC / X360? - Prototype]
25 Jun 2009Before Ensemble Studios was closed, they worked on serveral prototype games, such as Nova, Sorcerer, Wrench and Phoenix, an RTS which featured humans fighting aliens (which later evolved into Halo Wars). Another protype was known as “Bam” which Ensemble describes as a “Ratchet & Clank-Style Platformer”. As seen on various images posted by the company’s [...]
XFire [PC - Cancelled]
24 Jun 2009XFire was a PC action RPG similar to Diablo, that was in development by SirTech Software, but sadly it was never released.
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Miss Honeybee [Amiga - Cancelled]
21 Jun 2009Miss Honeybee was going to be a platform game for the Amiga: it was in development by Kaiko, but they never finished the project for some reasons. Some of the sprites, like the chikens, were used even in Timet / Mr. Nutz.
Thanks to Celine for the contribution!
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Creation [PC - Cancelled]
18 Jun 2009Creation was a cancelled project from Bullfrog Production that started as a concept for the Amiga in 1992, then it became a PC aquatic-theme action / strategy game in 1995. For various marketing problems, the project was never finished.
Some scans with old previews can be found at Amiga Magazine Rack!
Thanks to Robert Seddon and [...]
Unreal [PC - Beta / Tech Demo]
16 Jun 2009Unreal is a FPS developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes and published by GT Interactive in 1998. Originally, Unreal was going to be a Quake-style shooter: earlier screens showed a large status bar and centered weapons, similar to Doom and Quake. The main character was also going to be a woman, however in the [...]
Soul Reaver / Shifter [PSX / DC / PC - Beta]
15 Jun 2009Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is a third-person adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos. It was released for the PlayStation and PC in 1999 and for the Sega Dreamcast in 2000. Soul Reaver entered development alongside Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain in 1997 and focused on puzzle solving instead of [...]
Blood Bowl [PSX/PC - Cancelled]
14 Jun 2009Blood Bowl is a cancelled sport / action game that was in development by Psygnosis for the original Playstation and PC in 1998. The gameplay could have been something like Speedball or Mutant League Football. The project was stopped when the company went into financial troubles, before being bought out by Sony. It’s interesting to [...]
Duke Nukem (Lame Duke) [PC - Beta]
7 Jun 2009Duke Nukem 3D is a FPS developed by 3D Realms and published by Apogee Software. It was released on January 29, 1996. LameDuke is an early beta version of Duke Nukem 3D, which was released by 3D Realms as a “bonus” one year after the release of the official version. It has been released as [...]
Serious Sam [PC - Beta]
5 Jun 2009Serious Sam is a FPS created by the Croatian development team Croteam. originally released for the PC in 2001. My friend Optik found an interesting video from the SS beta in Shadow1665’s Youtube channel, in which we can notice various differences from the final game:
Sounds are different from the final
High score option in the main [...]
Bionicle: Legend of Mata Nui is a cancelled PC game based on the Lego Bionicle franchise, that was in development at the Lego Software division. The project was officially cancelled in 2001, because of some quality issues and too many delays. It seems that a playable beta demo does exist somewhere out there.
Thanks to Lord [...]
P.I.D. [PC/Amiga - Unreleased]
13 May 2009P.I.D. (Private Investigator Dollarally) was a top-down driving/adventure game created by Finnish developers Terramarque (now known as Housemarque), set for release on the PC in December 1994. It may also have been intended for release on the Amiga, considering the developer’s history of developing for the system. For unknown reasons, the game was cancelled.
The single [...]
Daikatana [PC - Beta]
12 May 2009Daikatana is a FPS developed by Ion Storm, led by John Romero and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. Romero’s initial game design, completed in March 1997, called for a huge amount of content – 24 levels split into 4 distinct time periods, 25 weapons, and 64 monsters.
Despite this, Romero believed that development of the [...]
Mr. Nutz / Timet [Amiga - Beta]
10 May 2009Mr. Nutz: Hoppin’ Mad is a side scrolling, 2D platformer game published by Ocean Software for the Amiga and first released in 1994. The game started out as Timet: the Flying Squirrel by a company named Kaiko but was sold before being released. The player character sprite was a slimmer flying squirrel, which was changed [...]
FXTanks [PC - Prototype]
6 May 2009FX Tanks was a real time strategy game that was in development at FX Interactive, but it seems that it was never released for some reasons. It could have been just an internal prototype, to test the new 3D engine and various gameplay ideas.
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Hannibal [PC - Cancelled]
3 May 2009Hannibal was a FPS / Adventure game that was in development by Arxel Tribe and that was going to be published by Mindscape in 2002 / 2003 for PC. It was based on the horror film with the same name, and it would had let players to assume the role of special agent Clarice Starling [...]
Highlander: The Gathering [PC - Cancelled]
29 Apr 2009Highlander Online was a MMORPG that was in development by Kalisto Entertainment in 2001 / 2002, before the company was closed down. It was based on the series of films with the same name, but the project was probably cancelled in early development. A new Highlander game is coming out in 2010 for the PS3 [...]
Totems [X360 - Cancelled]
29 Apr 2009Totems is a cancelled 3D platform / Action game for the Xbox 360 and PC, that was in development by 10tacle Studios (Elsewhere Entertainment). The Player controls the main character Gia, a parkour expert with the help of powers from four different animal totem Spirits. In August 2008, 10tacle Studios has closed down and the [...]
Foo [PC - Cancelled]
28 Apr 2009Foo was an action / stealth game that was in development in 2002 by Idol FX and was going to be published by Singularity Software . As we can read in the original press release:
Set in ancient China, Foo will challenge players to enter palaces and temples in the dead of night, loot them, and [...]
Doom [PC - Alpha / Beta]
22 Apr 2009The development of Doom began in 1992 as a tie-in of Aliens, but the first concept of the game, “Evil Unleashed”, was finished only in febraury 1993. As we can see from the ToastyTech website, this demo had only a room and three enemies: an imp, a demon, and a baron of hell. The hud [...]
Ascendant (Big Huge RPG) [X360/PS3/PC - Beta]
20 Apr 2009Ascendant is a third person action RPG with a fantasy theme. The game was announced by THQ in 2007 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Developed by Big Huge Games and led by Oblivion designer Ken Rolston, Ascendant (also known as ‘Big Huge RPG’ and ‘Crucible’) was originally intended for a release in 2009.
When [...]
Sex ‘n’ Drugs ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ Roll [PC - Cancelled]
19 Apr 2009Sex ‘n’ Drugs ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ Roll was going to be an ambitious point and click adventure game that was in development by Sensible Software for the PC, from 1994 to 1998. The main character would have been Nigel Staniforth Smythe, a wannabe Rockstar that had to play gigs and deal drugs, to rise money [...]
World in Conflict [X360/PS3/PC - Beta]
10 Apr 2009World in Conflict was developed and released in 2007 by Massive Entertainment. They showed lots of trailers before the final release, and one of them shows some things that are different in the final game:
The first thing that we can notice is that the interface is different: instead of being grayish as in the final [...]
Quake [PC - Proto / Concept]
6 Apr 2009Quake is a famous fps released in 1996. In a preview section of Commander Keen (dated 1/23/90), we can see that originally the game was going to be a 2d role-playing game. Also, when in the mid 90’s they created the quake engine, the early testing was made on some Doom levels.
Thanks to Nathan for [...]
Fate [PC - Cancelled]
5 Apr 2009Fate is a game which was in development in 1996 by DogBone Software and was going to be published by Intracorp. The game was being made with the Build Engine, a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman for 3D Realms (used for Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood and Redneck Rampage). Sadly Intracorp went [...]
Ultima 8: The Lost Vale [PC - Cancelled]
3 Apr 2009Ultima VIII: Pagan is the eighth part of the computer RPG series Ultima: it was developed by Origin Systems and released in 1994 for the PC. Dominus sent us a couple of links (here and here) in which we can read some informations about the cancelled Ultima 8 expansion, that was called The Lost Vale. [...]
Soulless [Mac - Beta]
30 Mar 2009Soulless is a side-scroller action game that was developed by Cobra Blade and released in 2008 for Mac. The original concept of the project was a quick Wizard of Wor style game with Space Marines against zombies, but it later became the side-scroller action game that we can play today. In the beta version the [...]
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an action RPG developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks and the Take-Two Interactive subsidiary 2K Games. [Infos from Wikipedia]
Ace.dark posted an interesting topic in our forum, in which he explain that thanks to the Elder Scrolls Construction Set and the use of the Developers Console [...]
Black Isle’s Torn [PC - Cancelled]
27 Mar 2009Black Isle’s Torn is a computer role-playing game developed for Windows by Black Isle Studios, announced on March 2001 and cancelled in July of that year. The game was to use a modified version of the SPECIAL role-playing system, which had been implemented in the Fallout series.
Developed on various editions of the Lithtech engine, Torn [...]
Turrican 3D [PC - Cancelled]
23 Mar 2009Turrican is a 1990 video game programmed by Manfred Trenz. It was first developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, but was ported to other systems later. Turrican 3D was intended to bring Turrican into the third dimension in 1999, but it was never released because publisher THQ stopped the development. Screenshots and videos [...]
Blood [PC - Beta / Prototype]
14 Mar 2009Blood is a FPS developed by Monolith Productions and distributed by GT Interactive. Released for the PC on 31 May 1997, it utilized the first Build engine from Ken Silverman to feature voxels. [Infos from Wikipedia]
Conrad Coldwood has linked us to an interesting website, in which we can find “lots of downloads regarding Blood: early [...]
Tower of Goo Unlimited [Wii - Concept]
7 Mar 2009Tower of Goo Unlimited is the original prototype, made some years ago, of World of Goo, a famous indie game for Pc and Wiiware. Even if you can create only a tower in this concept, the basic gameplay and the graphic style are essentially the same as the released version. There is a level called [...]
On fasddd Youtube Channel we can see this WiC Washington Cinematic taken from the behind the scenes DVD. It seems that this video was not used in the final game. Someone has any more infos?
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Jazz Jackrabbit 3D [PC - Cancelled]
8 Feb 2009Jazz Jackrabbit 3 (alternatively called Jazz Jackrabbit 3D or simply Jazz3D) is the unreleased third installment of the popular PC game series, Jazz Jackrabbit. Spear-headed by Dean “Noogy” Dodrill (an animator for Jazz Jackrabbit 2) and coded by World Tree Games, it was developed for the original Unreal Engine technology in 1999. Like many other [...]
Mechwarrior Prime [XBOX / PC - Cancelled]
29 Jan 2009Also know as Mechwarrior 5, this project by FASA Studios was never completed, but some screens and concepts have survived the cancellation. If you have more infos on this game, please let us know!
Thanks to Hey Hey for the contribution!
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Castle! Castle! [GC / PC - Cancelled]
23 Jan 2009Castle! Castle! was a prototype for a game in development for PC and Gamecube at F4 (formerly known as F4-Toys), a French video game developer based in Paris composed of former staffers from Adeline Team and No Cliche, including Frederick Raynal. It seems that it was going to be a real-time strategy game, where the [...]
Star Wars Battlefront 3 [X360/PS3/PC - Proto]
18 Jan 2009In 2006, LucasArts announced an agreement with UK-based and now shut down developer Free Radical Design. Although no further announcements were made about the game, it was well known that FRD was working on Star Wars Battlefront 3 for next-generation platforms.
Several issues including delays and “communication problems” made LucasArts cancel the project and leave Free [...]
World Of Warcraft [Beta - Gurubashi Catacombs]
13 Jan 2009Another WoW article, I know there are not many reading this as all WoW nerds (including me) are busy playing the game, but hey, always fun to read, isn’t it? So anyway, back in the vanilla WoW beta there were ANOTHER battleground apart from Azshara Crater (which you also can read about here…) that was [...]
Grandia Online [PC - Cancelled?]
18 Dec 2008Grandia Online was a MMORPG being developed by Game Arts and published by GungHo Online Entertainment. It was set to be released in 2006, but we never got more information about it and then it has just vanished, probably cancelled.
Update: thanks to fishinsoup we found out that the game is current in open-beta phase and [...]
Trium Planeta [GC / PC - Cancelled]
14 Dec 2008Trium Planeta was a prototype for a game in development for PC and Gamecube at F4 (formerly known as F4-Toys), a French video game developer based in Paris composed of former staffers from Adeline Team and No Cliche, including Frederick Raynal. From what we can see in the screens and learn from the little information available [...]
Little Big Adventure 2 [PC - Beta]
10 Dec 2008Robert Seddon linked us to a couple of interesting pages with screens and informations about a beta version of Little Big Adventure 2, the sequel of the cult adventure game by Adeline Software International. In the Magicball Network forum you can see a gallery full of screens from an early version of LBA2, while in [...]
The Indestructibles [PC - Cancelled]
8 Dec 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
The Curse of Monkey Island [PC - Proto]
28 Nov 2008In the website of ATMachine we can read an interesting series of articles about the old Lucas Arts adventures and between them, we can even find a wonderful page with informations and screens for the beta version of The Curse of Monkey Island! A scan from al old magazine shows a prototype version of the [...]
Tiberium [PS3/X360 - Cancelled]
13 Nov 2008Tiberium is a cancelled tactical FPS set in the Command & Conquer universe, that was in development by EA Los Angeles (EALA) and it had been in production for two years. Tiberium was cancelled on September 30, 2008 due to the game’s failure to meet “quality standards set by the development team and the EA [...]
ER Tycoon [PC - Cancelled]
8 Nov 2008Robert Seddon has fowarded us a link to a rockpapershotgun article about ER Tycoon, a cancelled game from the Theme Hospital series. From this interview at the Escapist Magazine, it seems that the developers did not find any publisher interested in the game, so the project was stopped.
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Omikron The Nomad Soul [PC/Dreamcast - Beta]
4 Nov 2008Omikron: The Nomad Soul (also know as “The Nomad Soul” in Europe) is a PC and Sega Dreamcast 3D adventure game, developed by Quantic Dream and published in 1999. Thanks to the Omikron Game Blog, we can see some interesting screentshots from an early (1997 / 1998) version of the game, with different character design, [...]
Urban Race [X360/PC - Cancelled]
27 Oct 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II [PC - Beta]
14 Oct 2008Our reader Drake Lake has made us notice that in the ATMachine website (a page that we have seen for the various beta Monkey Island / LucasArts adventures) there are even lots of informations about removed scenes and beta stuff from Jedi Knight, a first person shooter released in 1997 by LucasArts. In those screens [...]
Day of the Tentacle [PC - Beta]
2 Oct 2008In the website of ATMachine we can read an interesting series of articles about the old Lucas Arts adventures and between them, we can even find a wonderfull page with informations and screens for the beta version of Day of the Tentacle! In those images we can see different animations and unused items.
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge [PC - Beta]
27 Sep 2008In the website of ATMachine we can read an interesting series of articles about the old Lucas Arts adventures and between them, we can even find a wonderfull page with informations and screens for the beta version of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge! Various differences like an early Guybrush sprite, changes in the backgrounds, are [...]
HALO MMO / Titan [X360/PC? - Cancelled]
23 Sep 2008Our nice friends Robert Seddon and Batzarro have linked us to an intersting news that was spotted on Game Set Watch and Gamasutra, that talks about the find of some screenshots from “Titan Project”, an HALO inspired Massive Multiplayer Online game that was in development at Ensemble Studios, but was cancelled in 2007.
Ensemble Studios has [...]
X-COM is a series of computer games, started by Mythos Games and MicroProse in 1993. The first three titles were tactical games while the fourth was an action-based space combat/strategy game. The first installment, UFO: Enemy Unknown in Europe (also known as X-COM: UFO Defense in North America) was written by a team led by [...]
The Secret of Monkey Island [PC - Beta]
18 Sep 2008In the website of ATMachine we can read an interesting series of articles about the old Lucas Arts adventures and between them, we can even find a wonderfull page with informations and screens for the beta version of Monkey Island! Various differences like removed puzzles, changes in the text and missing dog closeup are show [...]
Ultima Worlds Online: Origin [PC - Cancelled]
19 Jul 2008Ultima Worlds Online: Origin (UWO:O) – originally titled Ultima Online 2 (UO2) – was to be the first sequel to the popular 1997 massively multiplayer online role-playing game Ultima Online. Origin Systems revealed that they were developing UO2 in September 1999 for release within a year or two, but development was cancelled in March 2001.
UO2 [...]
World of Warcraft [PC - Beta]
17 Jul 2008Early in the development of World of Warcraft, when battlegrounds were made, there was a battleground called Azshara Crater. Azshara Crater would’ve been in – you guessed right – Azshara. It was intented to work in a similar fashion to Alterac Valley. A funny detail is that the entrances was already made when the battleground [...]
Left 4 Dead [X360/PC - Beta]
16 Jul 2008At the Electronic Arts E3 2008 press conference, Valve revealed a new characters design for Left 4 Dead.
Here’s a comparison between the old characters (top) and the new ones (below):
As Nastykill has made us to notice, at the Official L4D Blog we can find a lot of interesting infos and screens / videos from the [...]
MDK [PC/PSX - Concept]
14 Jul 2008MDK is a third-person shooter game developed by Shiny Entertainment and released in 1997 by Playmates Interactive Entertainment for the PC, Macintosh, and subsequently PlayStation. MDK’s gameplay is usually a third person shooter, except when sniper mode is entered. As expected, Kurt has a wide range of weapons to choose from, which differ in standard [...]
HMS Carnage (later renamed to Dreadnought / Dreadnoughts and internally know as Dread0) is a cancelled Victorian steam-punk shooter (with strategy elements) set on the red planet of Mars, that was in development for almost 3 years by the Tribe team at Ocean Software. It was an ambitious project, but only a small playable demo [...]
Warcraft 3 [PC - Beta]
21 Jun 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Youngblood: new video & screens
20 Jun 2008The staff of Games That Weren’t has uploaded on their YouTube page a couple of good quality videos from Youngblood, a cancelled action-adventure that was in development for Playstation 1 and PC. You can see these videos here and here. In the meantime, we have added some screens from this game in the archive page: [...]
Planescape: Torment [PC - Beta]
17 Jun 2008Robert Seddon made us to notice a couple of websites that talk about unused content in Planescape: Torment, a 1999 PC RPG. At Placescape Outshine we can read a long list with dialogs, items, images and sounds that are in the game’s files but were not used in the game. In the same site [...]
Portal [Concept / Beta / Prototype]
14 Jun 2008Portal is Valve’s professionally developed spiritual successor to the freeware game Narbacular Drop, the 2005 independent game released by students of the DigiPen Institute of Technology; the original Narbacular Drop team are now all employed at Valve. Certain elements have been retained from Narbacular Drop, such as the system of identifying the two unique portal [...]
Earthworm Jim 3D [N64/PC - Beta]
4 Jun 2008During its drawn-out three year development cycle, Earthworm Jim 3D changed publishers several times. This caused some problems as the game was based on the Earthworm Jim TV series which by the time of release, had been off the air for over 3 years. Also many locations displayed in early versions of the game are [...]
Virtual Ocean [PS2/PC - Cancelled]
2 Jun 2008Virtual Ocean is a cancelled game from AndNow, the developers team of Ed Annunziata. It was in development for the PC and planned for a Playstation 2 port. In the original press-release for this game we can read: “Leave your human body at the shore when you enter the Virtual Ocean. Mankind is long gone, [...]
Nooks and Crannies [PS2/PC - Cancelled]
1 Jun 2008Nooks and Crannies is a cancelled game from AndNow, the developers team of Ed Annunziata. It was in development for the PC and planned for a Playstation 2 port. In the original press-release for this game we can read that: “Nooks & Crannies is the first real game with artificial life characters; little alien Nooks [...]
Blizzard Cancelled Games
27 May 2008At DICE 2008, Blizzard had some talk about their games and in there, they showed an interesting list with a couple of “new” artworks for some of their cancelled projects. As Kotaku has wrote about:
“The team also revealed a list of the Blizzard games that have been canceled over the course of their 17 years, [...]
WarCraft Adventures [PC - Cancelled]
27 May 2008WarCraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans was a dark comical point-and-click adventure computer game under development by Blizzard Entertainment that was set in the Warcraft universe, and cancelled before its release. American company Animation Magic was out-sourced due to their experience in classical two-dimensional animation to produce the twenty-two minutes of fully-animated sequences, the game’s [...]
Seaman [PC - Unreleased?]
21 May 2008On IGN we read that a PC version of Seaman was in development some years ago, but it looks like it was never released: “The PC version of the game was announced by Vivarium founder Yoot Saito today at a conference in Japan. It’s entitled Seaman for Windows Ver. 1.0 and will be available in [...]
Spore [PC - Beta]
21 May 2008Spore is a video game under development by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The game has drawn wide attention for its promise to simulate the development of a species on a galactic scope, using its innovation of user-guided evolution via the use of procedural generation for many of the components of the game, providing [...]
Anachronox [PC Beta / PS1 Cancelled]
18 May 2008Anachronox… a cold dark planet in the center of the Sender Sphere, crime… mafia… and a hilarious turn of style. Anachronox was an Rpg featured in the year 2001 by Edios Interactive and Ion storm, you took the place of Sylvester Bucelli (Sly Boots), A run down dectective living in a storage space above a [...]
Fallout 3: Van Buren [PC - Cancelled]
15 May 2008Fallout 3 was initially under development by Black Isle Studios, a studio owned by Interplay Entertainment, under the working title Van Buren. Van Buren was set to carry on the Fallout series, following Fallout 2, prior to being cancelled. Interplay Entertainment went bankrupt and closed down Black Isle Studios before the game could be completed, [...]
Amen: The Awakening [PC - Cancelled]
12 May 2008Amen: The Awakening was a planned FPS / RPG with some stealth elements by Cavedog Entertainment. It was to be the first FPS by Cavedog and probably the gameplay would have been somehow similar to the original Deus Ex, but the project was cancelled in 2000. Amen would have told the story of a dark [...]
Psychonauts [XBOX/PS2 - Beta / Concept]
19 Apr 2008Originally, the main character was an ostrich suffering from mental imbalance and multiple personalities. Tim Schafer killed the idea because he strongly believes in games being “wish fulfillments,” guessing that not many people fantasize about being an insane ostrich. Raz was originally named Dart and it had many different design [...]
Shining Lore [XBOX/PC - Cancelled]
16 Apr 2008Shining Lore is to the very majority of people a cancelled MMORPG originally to be released early 2003, before it fell into development limbo. However, what most people are unaware of is that Shining Lore Online, as it was to be called, was originally a dating RPG called, simply, Shining Lore. [...]
Citizen Zero (Big World) [XBOX - Cancelled]
15 Apr 2008Citizen Zero was going to be one of the first massively-multiplayer online role playing games for the XBOX, with astounding graphics and promising looks. Sadly the game was never released probably due to not having enough money or due to deadlines. The story takes place on a distant planet know as Nero-Eden were you were [...]
Final Fantasy XI (11) [PS2/PC - Concept / Beta]
15 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Seraphin [XBOX/PC - Unreleased]
15 Apr 2008Seraphim is a cancelled third person, 3D combat game that was in development in 1999 / 2000 by Valkyrie Studios (creators of Septerra Core) for PC, with a planned conversion for the original Xbox. The game was interesting and ambitious but sadly they never found a publisher and it had to be canned. As we [...]
The Chronicles of Riddick [XBOX - Prototype]
15 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Deus Ex 2 Invisible War [PC/XBOX - Beta]
15 Apr 2008Deus Ex 2: Invisible War is a FPS developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive, released for Windows and Xbox in December 2003. Some of the old beta screenshots show various differences in the characters and levels or places that do not seem to be in the final version (probably a tech [...]
Warzone Online is a cancelled Massively Multiplayer Strategy Game (MMORTS / MMORPG) that was set in the universe of the Mutant Chronicles RPG. The game was scheduled to be released on PC and Xbox, developed by Paradox Entertainment in 2000, but it was officially cancelled in early 2002.
Warzone Online was created on the Valpurgius graphics [...]
Sam & Max: Freelance Police [PC - Cancelled]
15 Apr 2008Sam & Max: Freelance Police was a graphic adventure computer game developed by LucasArts as a sequel to the 1993 title Sam & Max Hit the Road. The final game in the company’s adventure game era, Freelance Police was originally intended to be released for Windows in early 2004.
Freelance Police was first announced in August [...]
Full Throttle: Hell on Wheels is the cancelled FT “sequel” that was announced in mid 2002 by LucasArts, for Windows and, for the first time in the series, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The game was to be an action-adventure, with more emphasis on action and fighting than adventure. Sean Clark was named the project lead [...]
Saboteur [PSX/PC - Cancelled]
11 Apr 2008Saboteur is a cancelled action game that was in development in 1998 / 1999 by Tigon Software for the Playstation and PC. You can read the original press release below:
Saboteur is a fast paced combat adventure game, which fuses genres and gameplay styles. It is a game that embraces new concepts and new production [...]
Starcon (star control 4) [Cancelled]
11 Apr 2008“Star Control 4, or later StarCon, was Accolade’s final attempt at profiting from the franchise. Few details are known, as Accolade reshaped and eventually cancelled it during the development stages; As of October 5th, 1998, development on StarCon has stopped. When word of Accolade’s decision on StarCon reached the press, [...]
Dreams To Reality [PSX/PC - Beta]
11 Apr 2008Dreams: to Reality is an action game developed by Cryo Interactive and released in 1997 for the PC and Playstation. In the screens below you can see an early beta version of the game, but as we never played the final one, we are not sure about all the differences. If you played the game, [...]
Into The Shadows [PC/Saturn - Unreleased]
10 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Ghouls & Ghosts Online [Proto / Cancelled]
9 Apr 2008Ghouls & Ghosts Online was planned to be a MMO of CAPCOM’s cult classic Ghouls ‘N Goblins with platforming challenges and hordes of monsters to battle as well as community features like guilds. This project was announced at GDC in 2003 but the ambitious multiplatform MMO never saw the light of day.
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Sim Mars [PC - Unreleased]
7 Apr 2008SimMars was a strategy game in development at Maxis around the same time as the release of the wildly popular Maxis game, The Sims. A trailer for the game was included on the SimCity 3000 CD. From the trailer, the premise of the game seemed to be a manned mission to the planet Mars, followed [...]
Sims Ville [PC - Unreleased]
7 Apr 2008SimsVille was a cancelled computer game from Maxis that was to be a cross between The Sims and SimCity. It was announced before 2000, but cancelled in September 2001. The game was to offer the user control of a multitude of houses in a neighborhood in a fashion similar to The [...]
Technosaur [PC - Cancelled]
7 Apr 2008TECHNOSAUR was a computer game development project that started at Jim’s Restaurant late one night, when four game designers got together to bitch about work over a cheap (and greasy) dinner. Amid ancient, hacking waitresses, soggy blueberry pancakes, and teenage vamps out way past their bedtimes, the idea of a [...]
Starcraft [PC - Prototype / Beta]
7 Apr 2008The pre-alpha version of StarCraft was still very similar to Warcraft II in terms of user interface and style. After receiving much criticism on the 1996 E3 for this lack of technological improvement, Blizzard started to rework the game engine. This included changing the interface from the distinctive Warcraft II-sidebar [...]
Prospero [PC - Valve Prototype]
7 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Half-Life was the first product of Kirkland, Washington-based developer Valve Software, which was founded in 1996 by former Microsoft employees Mike Harrington and Gabe Newell. They settled on a concept for a horror-themed 3D action game, using the Quake engine as licensed by id Software. Valve eventually modified the engine a great deal, notably adding [...]
Duke Nukem Forever [PC - Cancelled / Beta]
7 Apr 2008Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) was a first-person shooter being developed by now defunct 3D Realms. It was to follow Duke Nukem 3D as the next game in 3D Realms’ Duke Nukem series.
Duke Nukem Forever was officially announced on April 28, 1997 along with the purchase of a license to use the Quake II engine and [...]
Originally planned as a free mod for Quake, development on Team Fortress 2 switched to the GoldSrc/Half-Life engine in 1998 after the development team Team Fortress Software – consisting of Robin Walker and John Cook – were first contracted and finally outright employed by Valve Corporation. At the point of [...]
Half Life 2 [Concept / Prototype / Beta]
5 Apr 2008The book Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar revealed many of the game’s original settings and action that were cut down or removed entirely from the final game. Half-Life 2 was originally intended to be a far darker game where the Combine were more obviously draining the oceans for minerals and replacing [...]
Shadowrun [Prototype on Halo Engine]
5 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Prey [Beta - 1995 / 97 Version]
5 Apr 2008In 1995, the first incarnation of the game was announced. Prey was envisioned by 3D Realms as the first of a number of games to be running on unique, cutting edge game engine technology, developed in house. In this sense the project played the same role as Unreal did for [...]
Citizen Zero [Cancelled]
4 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
BioShock [Proto / Concept]
4 Apr 2008Originally, BioShock had a storyline which was significantly different from that of the released version: the main character was a “cult deprogrammer”-a person charged with rescuing someone from a cult, and mentally and psychologically readjusting that person to a normal life. For example, Ken Levine cites an example of what a cult deprogrammer does: “[There [...]
Tonic Trouble [N64/PC - Concept / Tech Demo]
4 Apr 2008Tonic Trouble (also know as HED during the early development) is a 3D platform game created by Ubisoft for the Nintendo 64 and PC. As you can see from the images in the gallery below, the developers tried to create a character design similar to Rayman for the main hero. Rather than rely on exploration [...]
Shadowman [N64/PSX/DC - Beta]
4 Apr 2008Shadow Man is an action adventure game developed by Acclaim Studios Teesside and published by Acclaim Entertainment. It was designed by Guy Miller and Simon Phipps. It is loosely based on the Shadowman comic book series published by Valiant Comics and was released in 1999 for the Nintendo 64, Sony PlayStation, Sega Dreamcast and PC. [...]
Max Payne [E3 1998 Beta]
3 Apr 2008ENG: This entry in the archive doesn’t have a description yet. If you want to add some info about the beta / cancelled stuff that you see in these images, just write a comment or send us an email! We’ll add your info in this page and your name in the contributors list. Thanks a [...]
Max Payne [E3 1998 Trailer - Tech Demo]
2 Apr 2008Avendo finito di nuovo Max Payne per PC, mi è venuta voglia di andare a cercare immagini della sua versione beta su Gamespot e IGN e sono rimasto piacevolmente sorpreso nel vedere che esistono davvero tantissime build del gioco, vi propongo il trailer dell’E3 1998, in cui vengono mostrati alcuni aspetti del gioco, livelli non [...]
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- Stephen: Ok I Will Admit The Donkey Kong Country Series Was Great But I Am Actually Glad That Swimming Stayed [...]
- CDi-Fails: Guys, I know a guy that worked for this *Flotonic*, and he said all the members resigned, causing th [...]
- Dan: just an FYI TS4 and Battlefront3 are not in the works. One being that they said that when theres a d [...]
- monokoma: Hi James! :) If you have some more "unseen material" to share about the development of the CoC Trilo [...]
- Zelda Majora’s Mask debug has been leaked!
- Malice [PSX - Cancelled]
- I-Ninja [GBA - Cancelled]
- Lobo [N64 - Tech Demo]
- GoldenEye: Rogue Agent [XBOX PS2 GC - Beta]
- Little King’s Story [Wii - Beta]
- World Rally [Sega Mega CD - Cancelled?]
- Hitman: Blood Money [PS2 XBOX X360 - Beta]
- Fallout Extreme [XBOX - Cancelled]
- De Blob [Wii - Beta]
