Archive for the ‘pc / mac’ Category
Insecticide Episode 2 [Cancelled - PC]
18 Jan 2012Insecticide Episode 2 is an unreleased Action/Adventure hybrid game developed by Crackpot Entertainment. In 2008 the publisher of the game, Gamecock Media Group, was acquired by Southpeak Interactive. This lead to the game being canceled, despite only being a few months away from its scheduled release. Very brief snippets of cut-scenes and in-game footage intended [...]
Kat Burglar [Cancelled – PS2, XBOX, PC)
11 Jan 2012Kat Burglar is a cancelled action / stealth game that was in development by Krome Studios, probably planned for PC, Playstation 2 and Xbox. In the beginning of year 2000 Krome Studios announced a new game about a lady burglar called Katherine Kelly, who steals works of art for a collector called Hugo Biggs-Lazenby. There [...]
Tomb Raider 3 Beta [PSX / PC]
10 Jan 2012Overview: After Tomb Raider 2, CORE had already planned the sequel which was later released November 1998 for PC and PSX. Based on the upgraded Tomb Raider 2 Engine, Tomb Raider 3 features new vehicles such as the: Kayak, Quadbike. These new vehicles give a dynamic feel and new experience to the game. Tomb Raider [...]
Nark 2 [PC - Cancelled]
6 Dec 2011Nark 2 was a cancelled Third Person Shooter with open world elements from russian developers – CH Games. The story rolling about R.U.S.T. team – special team of elite american soldiers, who comes to the desert island to find and destroy the NARK virus and his creators. Main character named Eliot. The main objective in [...]
Tomb Raider 2 Beta [PSX / Saturn / PC]
5 Dec 2011Overview: The first Tomb Raider game became a success with high ratings and sold well. Core Design of Derbyshire had already planned a sequal, the game underwent big changes through development. It is rumored that the game was primarily developed for the PSX, Sega Saturn and PC. According to further rumors, due to the original [...]
Tomb Raider Legend [Beta]
20 Nov 2011Tomb Raider Legend is the first “Tomb Raider” game by Crystal Dynamics. The final game was released in 2006, for Xbox, PlayStation 2, PSP, PC, GameCube, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. In my review, this is a good game, but too short. I find some content of the “beta” version of the gameplay. And [...]
Dragonflight: Chronicles of Pern is an action adventure based on the Dragonriders of Pern book series by Anne McCaffrey, that was in development in 1998 / 1999 by Grolier Interactive for PC and Playstation. Initially the game was going to have a style similar to Diablo, but after a couple of years of development, Dragonflight [...]
Sorcery [PC - Cancelled]
22 Oct 2011Sorcery was to be the first, ambitious project of game developer Starbreeze Studios, who have been responsible for such titles as the Chronicles of Riddick series, and Enclave. They have developed games that have been seen on all of the major consoles since the Xbox. Sorcery was conceived in 1997, long before either of these well-received titles. Little [...]
Freelancer [Beta - PC]
2 Oct 2011As we can read on Wikipedia, Freelancer is a space simulation that was developed by Digital Anvil and published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2003. The game was initially announced by Chris Roberts in 1999, but it was only released 4 years later, with many cuts and changes from the original concept. In 1997, Chris [...]
The Avengers [Cancelled - Xbox 360 / PS3 / PC]
21 Sep 2011The Avengers is a cancelled video game based on the upcoming superhero film (with Iron Man, Hulk and Thor) which was planned to be released along with it. The project was under development by THQ Studio Australia (Studio Oz) when THQ decided to close it. At the time of the closure they had already poured [...]
Mafia 2 [Beta / Unused - Xbox 360 / PS3 / PC]
19 Sep 2011Mafia 2 is an action game developed by 2K Czech, previously known as Illusion Softworks, and published by 2K Games. The game was originally announced in August 2007 and i was releaded in 2010 for Windows PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Much to the fans’ dismay, a significant amount of content from the game [...]
Steam [PC - Cancelled]
27 Aug 2011Developed by Reflection Interactive ( best known for its Driver series ), Steam is a cancelled 3D, third person adventure with a gothic flavour. Scheduled to appear in ’99 on PC the game never reached the stores shelves maybe because their parent company, GT Interactive, was acquired by Infogrames in that same year. Scans from [...]
Powerslave 2 [PSX PC - Cancelled]
15 Aug 2011Powerslave 2 is a cancelled game that was in development for the playstation and PC, set in ancient Egypt, thousands of years before the original title. At the start of Powerslave 2, Ra ( the sun god) disappears causing a permanent solar eclipse on the land. It turns out that he has been abducted by [...]
Shade: Wrath of Angels [Beta - PC / Xbox]
14 Aug 2011Shade: Wrath of Angels is an action game for the PC and Xbox, developed by Black Element Software and published in 2004 by Cenega. Shade: Wrath of Angels’s working title was Nefandus and development Started in 1997 as isometric shooter based on Quake2 engine. The project was to be released by freeware, but distributors got [...]
Dune Generations [PC - Cancelled]
10 Aug 2011Cryonetworks in 2001 disclosed information about Dune Generations, an upcoming online real-time strategy game based on Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel series. The company launched an official Web site for the upcoming game that features some concept images, a brief background story and description of the persistent gameworld, and a list of frequently asked questions. [...]
Cold Fear [Beta - XBOX PS2 PC]
25 Jul 2011Cold Fear is a 3rd person shooter horror title developed for the PS2, Xbox, and PC. Developed by DarkWorks, published by Ubisoft and released in 2005. Development: Cold Fear didn’t start as a horror title, based on information and speculation, darkworks was working on several new projects with several publishing and developing houses. In 2003 when [...]
Chex Quest 3 [PC - Cancelled]
17 Jul 2011A “Chex Quest 3″ game was made by fans of the series who were disappointed that the third had been canceled. But, rather than make entirely new levels and graphics, they stole much of them from other mods (here you can download the stolen resource list), mostly from Hacx and STRAIN. This one was noticeably [...]
Vanished Powers [PSX PC - Cancelled]
27 Jun 2011Vanished Powers is a cancelled action adventure / RPG that was in development in 1995 / 1996 by Neon Software (creators of Tunnel B1) and it would have been published by Ocean for the original Playstation and PC. It was going to use an isometric 2D graphic style, with prerendered backgrounds and lots of FMVs, [...]
Gore [C64 PC ST - Cancelled]
18 Jun 2011Gore is a cancelled side scrolling action game planned to be released for Amiga/PC/ST in 1990, in development by DMA Design and published by Psignosis. The project was canned early in development when it became obvious that there wasn’t enough memory for all the graphics. Some images from this lost game were shared online by [...]
ThreeWave CTF for DMC [PC - Cancelled]
17 Jun 2011ThreeWave CTF is a modification made for Quake and Quake 2′s capture the flag multiplayer mode. It was very popular at its time, but only few players know that it was made not only for Quake. There is a Deathmatch Classic version of it, planned to be released in 2001, but it wasn’t. A beta [...]
Hogs Of War [PSX PC - Beta / Unused]
31 May 2011Hogs Of War is a great turn-based tactics game developed and released in 2000 by Infogrames for Playstation and PC. Below you can see an old trailer of this game with some beta stuff in it (thanks to HigherPlainGames for the video): 0.41 the hud in top right of the corner is different than the [...]
Highlander [X360 PS3 PC - Cancelled]
28 May 2011Highlander is a canceled third-person action game developed by Widescreen Games which was going to be published by Square-Enix for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. The player had to control Owen MacLeod, a predecessor of the more famous immortals Connor MacLeod and Duncan MacLeod of the tv series, through an epic adventure that began in [...]
Portal 2 [Beta & Cut Content - X360 PS3 PC]
23 May 2011Portal 2 is a first-person-shooter-type-puzzle game. Developed for the 360, PS3 and PC and released by Valve sometime in April 2011. Some beta information were shared thanks to interviews and by fans of the game, but sadly no screenshots are currently available. At some point during the development, the player would have been allowed to [...]
Dragon Hoard [PC - Cancelled]
15 May 2011Dragon Hoard was a kind of a “dragon simulator” by Blue Fang Games, slated to be released in Q2 2000. The user would start as a young dragon in a fantasy land, which was claimed to be a fully simulated world where he should build his relations with humanoid races (humans, elves and “the Vrak”), [...]
Professional Sportscar Racing [PSX/PC - Beta?]
25 Apr 2011Update: thanks to Anonymous we found out that this game was released as “Sportscar GT” by Electronic Arts, that bought out Virgin Interactive. The screens below could still be different from the final game, so let us know if you see any differences! In 1997 / 1998 Virgin Interactive were working on a new racing [...]
Jet Moto (Jet Rider) [PSX - Beta]
19 Mar 2011Jet Moto (aka Jet Rider in Europe) is a futuristic racing game developed by SingleTrac and published in 1996 by Sony for the PlayStation and PC. As we can read on Wikipedia, the developers chose to create jet motos instead of wheeled motorcycles due to concerns over polygon limitations. Developers originally intended for players to [...]
Theseis [X360 PS3 PC - Cancelled]
11 Mar 2011Theseis is an action adventure that was in development by greek team Track7 Games for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. The project was started in early 2005, but after a couple of years of active promotion, Theseis vanished without traces and we can assume that it will never be released. It’s possible that [...]
Elysium [PC - Cancelled]
5 Mar 2011Elysium was described as an “episodic role-playing adventure” with more than 40 planned episodes, each of which wouls offer 10 to 20 hours of gameplay. The driving force behind it was Producer/Designer John Cutter whose past credits include the classic Betrayal at Krondor. The episodes however would never be released probably because GT Interactive ( [...]
Necrocide: The Dead Must Die is a cancelled FPS / action game that was in development in 2000 / 2001 by NovaLogic for PC, that looked like a mix between TimeSplitters and Serious Sam. Players would have took the role of a female vampire, to clean up a city infested with armies of zombies, werewolves, [...]
X-COM Alliance [PC - Cancelled]
20 Jan 2011X-COM: Alliance is a cancelled FPS / Strategy game that was in development in 1999 / 2000 by Hasbro Interactive’s Chipping Sodbury office in the UK and later by their studio in Hunt Valley, USA. As we can read in Wikipedia, unlike other games in the X-COM series, most of which were turn-based strategy, the [...]
Urban Decay [PC - Cancelled]
18 Jan 2011Urban Decay is a cancelled action game that was in development by Andrew Spencer Studios and it would have been produced / published by Psygnosis for PC. The project was to be an ellipsoid game like Ecstatica, but it was put on hold at one point to focus on Ecstatica 2. When they went back [...]
Skies [PC Dreamcast - Cancelled]
15 Jan 2011Skies is a cancelled massively multiplayer online game set in a 3D world of winged creatures ranging from angels to dragons and vampires. The game was coded by Paradigm Entertainment while the concept and publishing duties were by SegaSoft. Initially conceived for PC, later the game was announced to be headed to Dreamcast too. However [...]
Renegade Zero [PC PS2 - Cancelled]
14 Jan 2011Renegade Zero is a cancelled action game / third person shooter that was in development in 2001 by Cinematix Studios for the Playstation 2 and PC. We can read some more info in an old press release: They hired the six most notorious bounty hunters in the galaxy to find “Renegade Zero”, an outlaw so [...]
Covert W.A.R.S. [PSX PC - Cancelled?]
13 Jan 2011Covert W.A.R.S. seems to be a 3D action game with a strong multiplayer component, that was planned for PC and Playstation. Very little is known about it outside of a video shown around E3 ’97 so we can speculate that the project was later cancelled, but let us know if you have any additional information! [...]
Freedom Fighters [Beta - PS2 XBOX GC PC]
12 Jan 2011Freedom Fighters its a third person shooter released for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Gamecube and PC, developed by Io Interactive and published by Electronic Arts, the game was announced in e3 2002 as Freedom: The Battle For Liberty Island and few changes have made. Diferrent HUD, there was a person detector, AK 47 used to have [...]
Seed [PC - Cancelled]
9 Jan 2011Seed is a cancelled FPS that was in development in 1998 by Human Soft, a team from Hungary. The particularity of this game was the colorful lighting engine, as you can see from the screenshots below, some of which were found by derboo in PowerPlay magazine 7/1998. Seed was proposed to be a new action [...]
Joe Blow [PSX PC - Cancelled]
8 Jan 2011Joe Blow is a cancelled platform / action game featuring a ten year old monkey that blow away his enemy (literally!) with the goal to save the Queen of Dreams who has been kidnapped by the evil Nightmare King. Player had to explore 6 worlds with overall 60 levels to free Dreamland from the new [...]
Schwarzenberg [X360/PS3/PC - Cancelled]
18 Dec 2010Schwarzenberg is a cancelled third person shooter that was in development by Radon Labs in 2005, for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. The game was set in World War II when the Third Reich was collapsing: Schwarzenberg was the name of a Nazi stronghold, a storage of plundered treasure beyond imagination and secret [...]
4th Battalion [PC - Cancelled]
14 Dec 20104th Battalion is a cancelled Action RPG that was in development by russian studio GFI Russia (MiST land). The game was announced in August 2005 and it was planned as a prequel to Paradise Cracked / Access Code: PARADISE. 4th Battalion’s script started 20 years before the events of “Access Code” on-ridden civil war Mars. [...]
Curlys Adventure [PC - Cancelled]
13 Dec 2010Curlys Adventure is a cancelled point and click adventure that was in development by Sylum, under the supervision of Epic MegaGames (now called Epic Games) in 1995. Sadly in 1997, Sylum parted with Epic and the project was canned. Only a couple of screenshots remain in the gallery below, to remember the project. Thanks to [...]
How I Spent My Summer Vacation is a cancelled “horror” action game that was in development by Santa Cruz Games for the Nintendo DS and PC. As we can read on Gamasutra, players would have took the role of a little girl named Joanne, armed with a chainsaw to take down zombies that invaded her [...]
Good & Evil [PC - Cancelled]
10 Dec 2010Good & Evil is a cancelled Action RPG / RTS that was in development by Cavedog Entertainment / Humongous Entertainment by a team leaded by Ron Gilbert, a game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. The [...]
Magic Carpet [PC PSX SAT - Beta]
3 Dec 2010Magic Carpet is a shooter / action game developed by Bullfrog Productions and released in may 1994 for PC, Playstation and Saturn. As we can read on Wikipedia, in the game player plays a wizard (on a magic carpet) flying over water, mountains, and other terrain while destroying monsters and rival wizards. Pcloadletter found an [...]
Gothic [PC - Beta]
1 Dec 2010Gothic is an action RPG developed by Piranha Bytes and released in 2001 for PC. As we can read on Wikipedia, the team worked more than 4 years on the development of Gothic’s technology and some screenshots from an early beta version with much more blocky polygon models and fewer details were found by derboo [...]
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a FPS developed by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, published for PC in 2007. As we can read in Wikipedia, the game was first announced in November 2001 as “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Oblivion Lost” and had its release date, originally in 2003, pushed back several times. Meanwhile hundreds of screenshots of the game had [...]
Lucifer [PC - Cancelled]
26 Nov 2010Lucifer (aka Farralin) is a cancelled a Action RPG with a gameplay similar to Diablo, that was in development in 1998 by Eclipse Entertainment as a collaboration with Electronic Arts Canada. The game was being prototyped in the Genesis 3D engine and the design called for randomly-generated dungeons featuring mini-bosses, permutation driven monsters, a deep [...]
Assault Korps [PSX PC - Cancelled?]
24 Nov 2010Assault Korps is a RTS that was in development in 1997 / 1998 by Corrosive for the Playstation and PC, but it seems that the game was cancelled as we cannot find any info about its existence, apart from an early preview that was published in Edge magazine issue #53. Assault Korps was going to [...]
Reich [X360 PS3 PC - Cancelled]
23 Nov 2010Reich is a cancelled FPS that was in development by Ignition Entertainment Florida for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. Other than blade and fire weapons, the main character would have had some powerful telekinetic abilities, as seen in the awesome leaked videos below, from noigniton’s Youtube Channel. The game was set in a [...]
D-Jump! [Dreamcast PS2 - Cancelled]
20 Nov 2010D-Jump is a cancelled platform / action game that was in development in 1997 / 1998 by Ubisoft Paris, planned to be released for the “next gen consoles” Dreamcast and Playstation 2, and also PC. It seems that the project was canned after 1 year and half of development, but there are just few info [...]
Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler´s Green is a FPS create by brainbox and published by groove games, its a prequel to the movie Land of the Dead, the game was announced shortly after City of the Dead was cancelled. Few differences can be seen in these beta screenshots: Jack was originally using gloves [...]
CRY.SYS [PC - Cancelled]
18 Nov 2010Cry.Sys is a cancelled action game that was in development in 1995 by Sierra, not related in any way with Crysis by Crytek. In Cry.Sys we would have took the role of a virtual reality robot, to fight against other mechs to save the last girl on the planet, trapped in this weird cyberspace. Sierra [...]
Starship Troopers [PC PSX - Cancelled]
15 Nov 2010In 1997 / 1998 Spectrum Holobyte was working on an action game based on the Starship Troopers license, that would have been published by Microprose for PC and Playstation, but it was later cancelled. This project was really different from the 2000 released Starship Troopers game, that was instead developed by Blue Tongue. The producer [...]
Babylon 5: Into the Fire [PC - Cancelled]
12 Nov 2010Babylon 5: Into the Fire is a cancelled space combat simulation that was in development by Yosemite Entertainment, an internal division of Sierra FX / Entertainment, based on the cult TV series. The main story would have been placed after the war against the Shadows, but an in-game simulator was supposed to allow fights against [...]
Fallout: New Vegas is an action FPS/RPG developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. Before the game was released changes were made to the game near the end of development. Most of what is documented below can be found in promotional screenshots, videos, and developer diaries. [...]
The Incredible Shrinking Character is an action adventure game that was in development by Go-Go Interactive Studios and that would have been published by Cyberdreams for the Playstation, Saturn and PC in 1996. The plot involved a crazy doctor that shrinked the main character with an experimental potion. Players would had to explore the (now) [...]
X-Com Genesis [PC - Cancelled]
28 Oct 2010As we can read on Wikipedia, X-COM: Genesis is a cancelled RTS in the X-COM series, that was in development by MicroProse and then by Hasbro Interactive. The game was never completed due to Hasbro’s shutdown of Hasbro Interactive in late 1999. For this project the team developed a “Geoscape” view of Earth from orbit, [...]
Shadow Striker [PC - Beta]
28 Oct 2010Shadow Striker is a a text adventure developed by Siika Software, an indie team from Finland. The project was originally known as Dark Souls, and it was meant to have a 3D scenario to explore, but because of various development issues, it was later decided to use only text to tell the story. Below you [...]
Brains in Planes [PSX PC - Cancelled]
22 Oct 2010Brains in Planes is a cancelled racing game that was in development by Millennium Interactive, planned to be released for PC and the original Playstation. Only a single image taken from the Alias environment was found by pcloadletter and Celine in Edge magazine 35, from August 1996. Brain in Planes was probably going to play [...]
Mudkicker [SAT PSX PC - Cancelled]
19 Oct 2010Mudkicker is a cancelled off-road racing game that was in development in 1995 / 1996 by Scavenger for the Saturn, Playstation and PC. The project was meant to be published by GT Interactive, along with Amok, Scorcher and Into the Shadows, but only the first 2 titles were finished. In January 1997, before Scavenger could [...]
Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari) [Beta]
15 Oct 2010Cave story (Doukutsu Monogatari in Japan) is a freeware platform / adventure indie-game released in 2004 for PC and a WiiWare port by Nicalis in 2010. It was designed and programmed over 5 years by Daisuke Amaya, art-name Pixel, in his free time. A classic by almost every sense of the word. I say almost, [...]
Alien Intelligence [PC - Cancelled]
12 Oct 2010Alien Intelligence is a cancelled turn based strategy game that was in development by Flatline Studios and it would have been published by Interplay in 1997. Thanks to derboo we were able to preserve some screenshots from this lost game, found in Power Play 4/98 magazine. As we can read in this old preview, the [...]
Darkest of Days [PC X360 - Beta]
9 Oct 2010Darkest of Days is a FPS developed by 8monkey Labs and published by Phantom EFX / Valcon Games in September 2009 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360. DCodes7 found some beta differences in the promo screen shots for the game: The character “mother” is only seen in the game as a pair of eyes on [...]
Metro 2033 [X360 PC - Beta]
2 Oct 2010Metro 2033 is FPS / survival horror based on the novel with the same name, written by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. The game was developed since 2005 by 4A Games in the Ukraine, but it was released only in March 2010 for Xbox 360 and PC, after more than 5 years. In all this time [...]
Sato City [PSX PC - Cancelled?]
1 Oct 2010Sato City is a cancelled action game that was in development for the original PSX and PC, it would have been published by Merit Studios. The game was set in a post-apocalyptic world, generated with pre-rendered backgrounds (ala Resident Evil). Sadly we dont have any more info about this project, but Merit Studios never published [...]
Ultima IX (9) [PC - Beta]
29 Sep 2010Ultima IX (9) is a RPG in the Ultima series, developed by Origin Systems and released for PC in 1999. Ultima 8 was released in 1994 and in those 5 years between the 2 titles, the “Ultima IX project” had a long and troubled development. As we can read on Wikipedia, there have been at [...]
Advent Rising [XBOX PC - Beta / Unused]
27 Sep 2010Advent Rising is a science fiction action adventure developed by GlyphX Games and published by Majesco for Xbox and PC in 2005. As we can read on Wikipedia, Advent Rising was the first in a planned trilogy which also saw the development of Advent Rising PSP, a side story that took place at the same [...]
Black & White [PC - Beta / Proto]
22 Sep 2010Black & White is a god / strategy game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts and Feral Interactive in 2001 for PC. The project was in development till 1997 / 1998 and in the gallery below you can see some early screenshots, taken from various target renders, prototypes, tech demos and beta [...]
As we can read on Wikipedia, Vanguard Princess is a Japanese indie 2D fighting game for Windows PC, developed by a single programmer / illustrator called Tomoaki Sugeno and a supposedly ex-Capcom employee. As posted by Megalol in our U64 Forum, Tomoaki Sugeno has shared a lot of beta materials, canceled characters concepts, stages and [...]
The Witcher (1997 version) [PC - Cancelled]
17 Sep 2010The Witcher is a book series by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski: in 1997 a game based on these books was in development for PC by Metropolis Software, but this version of the game was never released for unknown reasons. In 2008, Metropolis were acquired by CD Projekt, a polish company that in 2007 published the [...]
Wipeout [PSX PC SAT - Beta]
13 Sep 2010Wipeout is the first in a series of futuristic racing games developed and published by Psygnosis in 1995 for Sony PlayStation and PC, in 1996 for the Sega Saturn. Wipeout was designed in part by The Designers Republic, while the game’s vehicle designs were based on Matrix Marauders, a 3D grid-based strategy game whose concept [...]
SWAT: Urban Justice [PC - Cancelled]
13 Sep 2010SWAT: Urban Justice is a cancelled strategy FPS that would have been the 4th title in the SWAT series of real-time tactical games. Urban Justice was in development by Sierra in 2001 / 2002, but something went wrong, the game was postponed and soon vanished without an explanation. In 2004 Vivendi Universal / Sierra announced [...]
StarCraft 2 [PC - Beta]
11 Sep 2010StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty is a RTS developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released on July 2010 for PC and MAC. As we can read on Wikipedia, the project was announced on May 2007 at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Seoul, South Korea, but the development began in 2003, shortly after Warcraft III: The Frozen [...]
Star Trek Elite Force 2 [PC - Beta]
6 Sep 2010Star Trek: Elite Force 2 is a FPS developed by Ritual Entertainment and published in 2003 by Activision for PC. As we can read in wikipedia, towards the end of March 2002, rumors were reported that a sequel to Elite Force was in development. The game was the last Star Trek title to be developed [...]
Terminus [SAT PSX PC - Cancelled]
31 Jul 2010Terminus is a cancelled action adventure / shooter game that was in development by Scavenger Inc for the Sega Saturn, Playstation and PC in 1996. As they wrote in their press release, the project was meant “to give Tomb Raider a run for it’s money” but sadly it was already too late, as the company [...]
Hell’s Deep [PS2 PC - Cancelled]
30 Jul 2010Hell’s Deep is a cancelled action adventure that was in development in 2002 by Qube Software for the Playstation 2 and PC. The project was meant to be an ambitious sandbox game, similar to GTA3, but set in a big medieval city, during a dark and menacing time. As the main focus of Qube has [...]
Full Throttle 2: Payback [PC PS2 - Cancelled]
27 Jul 2010Full Throttle: Payback (aka Full Throttle 2) is a cancelled action adventure game that was in development in 2000 by LucasArts, planned to be released for PC and with a rumored Playstation 2 port. As we can read in Wikipedia, the game would have been an official sequel to continue the storyline of the original [...]
Painkiller: Resurrection [PC - Beta / Concept]
25 Jul 2010As we can read on Wikipedia, Painkiller: Resurrection is FPS developed by Homegrown Games and published by JoWooD. It is a stand-alone expansion to the 2004 Painkiller developed by People Can Fly, and runs on an updated version of the Painkiller engine. Resurrection was released for the PC on October 2009, with a planned Xbox [...]
Recoil: Retrograd [X360 PS3 PC - Cancelled?]
20 Jul 2010Recoil: Retrograd is an action adventure based on time travels, that was in development by ZeitGuyz in 2006 / 2008 for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. The studio was searching for a publisher interested in their project in 2008, but as the game is still unreleased, we can assume that they did not [...]
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones [Beta]
19 Jul 2010Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones is an action-adventure game developed and published by Ubisoft Montreal. It was released in December 2005 for the Xbox, PC, PlayStation 2 and the GameCube. In the game the Prince develops a split personality, known as the Dark Prince, and this alter-ego constantly bickers with him in his mind [...]
Sky Gods [PS3/X360/PC - Cancelled]
11 Jul 2010Sky Gods is a cancelled shooter based on HALO (High Altitude, Low Opening) Special Forces operations. The project was in development at BlackFoot Studios in 2008 for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. As we can read in the official press release, in a typical HALO exercise, the parachutist will jump from the aircraft, [...]
Project Offset [X360 PS3 PC - Cancelled]
7 Jul 2010Project Offset is a cancelled fantasy action adventure that was in development by Offset Software, initially planned for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. As we can read on Wikipedia, in February 2008, Intel acquired Offset Software and the game became a PC exclusive. After a couple of yers, Intel officially canceled the game [...]
Hirelings [PS2 PC - Cancelled]
30 Jun 2010Hirelings is a cancelled fantasy platform game that was in development in 2000 by Cinematix Studios for the Playstation 2 and PC. As we can read on MobyGames, Cinematix was founded by Jong Yoon and Ben Cooley in 1993, and has released only two PC games: Total Mayhem (Published by Domark in 1996), and Revenant [...]
Gumshoe [PC / XBOX - Cancelled]
24 Jun 2010Gumshoe is an adventure game that was in development by Hiding Buffalo in 2002 / 2003 for the PC and the original XBOX. As we can read in the original press release: The concept for the game along with a working prototype were created as Hiding Buffalo’s entry in the 2002 Dare to be Digital [...]
Silent Space [XBOX/PS2/PC - Cancelled]
22 Jun 2010Silent Space (a.k.a. Space Force / Space Wars) is a cancelled Sci-fi RTS that was in development in 2001 by Crytek, originally created as a prototype for the PC, but later planned for the Xbox and Playstation 2 too. This project was in the works along with Engalus (a cancelled FPS) and and X-Isle (which [...]
Alien vs Predator: Nightmare on Ryushi is a point & click adventure game based on the Aliens VS Predator series, that was going to be published for MS-DOS PCs by Activision in 1993, but in the end it seems that the project got cancelled. As we can read from the AVP Galaxy Forum, even fans [...]
Guardians: Agents of Justice is a cancelled superhero squad tactics game developed by Simtex in 1996 / 1997, that would have been published by Microprose. The project was supposed to play like X-Com, but with superheroes. As we can read on Wikipedia, Simtex created a number of well-known turn-based strategy games for the PC, most [...]
Tarantula [PSX Saturn PC - Cancelled]
22 May 2010Tarantula is a cancelled action game that was in development by Scavenger (Team Mescal) in 1996 / 1997 for the Playstation, Saturn and PC. The concept of the game was somehow similar to the released Spider (PSX) and Deadly Creatures (Wii), in which the player would had take the role of a spider to explore [...]
Fahrenheit (aka Indigo Prophecy in the US), is an adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and released for the Playstation 2, Xbox and PC in September 2005. The game evolved a lot during its development and from the early screens we notice various beta differences. The character models, some scenes and locations were changed in [...]
Splinter Cell: Conviction [X360 PC - Beta]
8 May 2010Splinter Cell: Conviction is a stealth / action game developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released in April, 2010 for the Xbox 360 and PC. The project was originally announced on May, 2007 when Ubisoft released a trailer for the game. It depicted a more rugged-looking Sam with long hair and a fully-grown beard. He had the [...]
Mercs Inc. [X360 PS3 PC - Prototype]
7 May 2010Mercs Inc is a spin-off title based on the Mercenaries franchise, planned for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. Pandemic Studios worked on a prototype of the game until its closure in November 2009. After a video of this prototype leaked, EA announced that the game would be developed at EA LA. As we [...]
Flying Nightmares 2 is a cancelled flight simulator / shooter that was in development for PC by Eidos Interactive, with a presumed port for the original Playstation and Saturn. As we can read in an interview by Combat Sim with Bryan Walker, Lead Producer of the FN2 project, the game was “a sequel to AV8B [...]
Abraxas is a cancelled Massive Multiplayer RPG that was in early planning stage at Eidos. The project was originally based on the Fabled Lands series of fantasy gamebooks written by Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson, published by Pan Books in the mid 90s. Originally planned as a twelve-book series, only six books were released between [...]
Shattered Nations [PC - Cancelled]
28 Apr 2010Shattered Nations is a cancelled sci-fi action / RTS game that was in development by Blizzard Entertainment. There is not much info on this lost project besides a teaser trailer in which we see a futuristic city and a flying helicopter. From the video description we can read that: The game was set in a [...]
Warhammer: Dark Crusaders [PC - Cancelled]
25 Apr 2010Warhammer: Dark Crusaders is a cancelled FPS that was in development for PC by Mindscape in 1995 / 1996. This project is not related to the RTS “Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade” expansion pack that was released in 2006. The 1996 Dark Crusaders was going to be one of the few first person [...]
The Fallen [PSX PC - Cancelled]
23 Apr 2010The Fallen is a cancelled action adventure game that was in development in 1995 / 1996 by Sensory Deception and it would have been published by Psygnosis for the original Playstation and PC. Sadly just few screenshots were found by Celine in CD Consoles magazine issue #19 and Edge magazine issue #33. Below you can [...]
Alien Breed: Conflict [PC/Dreamcast - Cancelled]
22 Apr 2010Alien Breed: Conflict (aka Alien Breed Action, ABC, or ABA) is a cancelled FPS in the Alien Breed series that was in development by Team17 in 1999 / 2000 for PC and Dreamcast. It was meant to be a follow-up to Alien Breed 3D II: The Killing Grounds, published in 1996 by Ocean Software. Sadly [...]
Damnation [PC X360 PS3 - Beta]
20 Apr 2010Damnation is a steampunk shooter developed by Blue Omega Entertainment and published by Codemasters on May 2009, for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game originally started as an Unreal Tournament 2004 mod and was entered into Epic Games first Make Something Unreal contest. The retail version retains much of the mod’s gameplay, including [...]
MDK2 [PC Dreamcast - Beta / Concept]
14 Apr 2010MDK2 is an action game developed by BioWare, as a sequel to the original MDK developed by Shiny Entertainment and released in 1997 by Interplay. MDK2 was originally released for the Dreamcast and PC in 2000, but it was later revised and re-released for the PlayStation 2 as MDK2: Armageddon. [Info from Wikipedia] Some of [...]
The Witcher Outcast [PC - Cancelled]
13 Apr 2010The Witcher is RPG for the PC developed by CD Projekt RED STUDIO and originally released in 2007. The game tells the story of Geralt of Rivia, who at the opening of the game is tasked to cure the daughter of King Foltest of a curse which causes her to transform into a feral monster. [...]
Stackers [GC/PC - Prototype]
13 Apr 2010Stackers is an unreleased platform / puzzle game that was in development by Santa Cruz Games for the GameCube and PC. This project was probably an evolution of their Pickles prototype, in which the player had to stack various characters on each other, to resolve the levels. The Pickles demo was shown at the Game [...]
The Bard’s Tale [PS2 XBOX PC - Unused Stuff]
12 Apr 2010The Bard’s Tale is an action adventure developed by InXile Entertainment, and released in 2004 for the Playstation 2, Xbox and PC. DCodes7 found a way to activate the debug menu in the PS2 port. Most of the debug functions are disabled and the only working functions are the level/area select and level load option. [...]
Untitled Shooter [XBOX/PC - Prototype]
9 Apr 2010This cell-shaded shooter is a prototype that should have been in development in 2004/2005 by 2015 Inc (?) for PC and Xbox. After working on Men of Valor, it seems that the studio tried to create this new shooter with a less realistic graphic style, but the project was later cancelled for unknown reasons. Thanks [...]
Mech Arena [PC XBOX - Cancelled]
8 Apr 2010Mech Arena: The First Match (aka Battle Arena III) is a cancelled action / fighting game that was in development in 2002 / 2003 by Made By Kiddies, for PC and the original Xbox. As the title can suggest, the player had to combat against huge mechs in various arenas, to win the competition. In [...]
South Park [N64 PSX PC - Beta]
5 Apr 2010South Park (originally titled South Park: Deeply Impacted during development) is a FPS based on the first few seasons of the popular TV series of the same name. The game is powered by the Turok 2 game engine and was released in 1998 by Acclaim for the PC, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. Acclaim had announced [...]
Fallout Tactics 2 [PC - Cancelled]
26 Mar 2010Fallout Tactics 2 is a cancelled action RPG developed by Micro Forté in 2001, that was meant to be the sequel to Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel. Pre-production started shortly before the release of the first game, but FT2 was soon canned by Interplay when Fallout Tactics started selling rather poorly. As we can read [...]
Dominion [PC/XBOX - Cancelled]
25 Mar 2010Dominion is a cancelled Action RPG that was in development from 2001 to 2003 by Pharaoh Productions for the PC, with a planned Xbox port. The game was meant to be based on the multiplayer mode, with up to 8 players (LAN or Internet) on the Xbox and probably more for the PC version. The [...]
Zoiks! (Pandemonium) [PC - Cancelled]
23 Mar 2010Zoiks! (aka Pandemonium) is a cancelled point and click adventure that was in development by Ocean Software’s Tribe team, featuring a cast of classic Hanna Barbera cartoon characters, including Scooby Doo, Shaggy, Fred Flintstone, Penelope Pitstop, Huckleberry Hound and Snagglepuss. As we can read from the ECTS 1997 press release, in the game’s story Dick [...]
Deathtrap Dungeon [PSX PC - Beta]
22 Mar 2010Deathtrap Dungeon is an action game developed by Eidos in 1998 and released for the PlayStation and PC. Although originally previewed for the gaming press alongside Eidos’ own original Tomb Raider game, Deathtrap Dungeon sat through several years of delays before finally seeing release. [Info from Wikipedia] Derboo found some early images of the game [...]
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 [...]
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 originally [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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! Images: Edit
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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. Images: Edit
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! Images: Edit
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 [...]
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 [...]
Legacy 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. Video: Edit
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Quake [PC - Beta / Proto]
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. As we can [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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: [...]
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? Video: Edit
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! Images: Video: Edit
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. Image: Edit
Omikron: 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 [...]
Titan A.E. [PSX PC - Cancelled]
10 Oct 2008Titan AE is a cancelled action game that was based off the 2000 American animated Sci-Fi adventure film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. The title refers to the spacecraft that is central to the plot, with A.E. meaning “After Earth.” [info from Wikipedia] The game was in development by Blitz Games for the [...]
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. Also, as [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 2008Left 4 Dead is a FPS with a strong coop mode, that was developed by Turtle Rock Studios and published by Valve for PC Windows and the Xbox 360 in 2008. The Left 4 Dead beta characters were changed, and at the Electronic Arts E3 2008 press conference, Valve revealed a new characters design for [...]
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 there’s [...]
Portal [PC - Beta / Concept / Unused]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tomb Raider Beta [PSX / Saturn / PC]
8 May 2008Overview: Tomb raider was not only one of the best selling, early 3D games, but it was the most recognizable icon of the Playstation brand. Tomb Raider development started early 1995, Core Design, of Derbyshire (formed in 1994) decided that they wanted to make a video game based on ‘Tomb Raiding’, the game was released [...]
Speed Tribes [PSX PC - Cancelled]
3 May 2008Speed Tribes is a cancelled shooter / racing game that was in development in 1997 / 1998 by Nemicron and it would have been published by THQ for the original Playstation and PC. The project was based off a comic of the same name (or was the comic created just to promote the game?), in [...]
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 before the final one. Even [...]
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. This was, obviously, a [...]
Loose Cannon [PC XBOX - Cancelled]
15 Apr 2008Loose Cannon is a cancelled sandbox style action game that was in development in 1999 / 2000 by Digital Anvil for PC and rumored to be ported for the XBOX. When Microsoft bought Digital Anvil, Loose Cannon was canned and as reported by GameSpot, it seems that the game’s concept was sold to Ubisoft (?) [...]
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 demo [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Stargate SG-1: The Alliance is a cancelled FPS based on the Stargate TV series. The project was never released, but a playable PC version was found by The Gaming Liberty and they started to share as much as they can from this lost game. This version seems almost finished and as we can read from [...]
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 [...]
Athanor [PSX PC - Cancelled]
11 Apr 2008Athanor (sometimes referred to as “Athenor”) is a cancelled adventure game that was in development by Psygnosis for the original Playstation and PC. The game was set in a virtual world created by a futuristic society, populated with classic Greek mythological creatures. We dont know much more about the story or the gameplay, but we [...]
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, several on-line sources reported that [...]
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 - Cancelled]
10 Apr 2008“Into The Shadows” was a fighting game (not RPG as a lot of people believe) in development by Triton, an ex demo group from Sweden, active on the PC demo scene in the early-to-mid 1990s. Triton were previously known for the popular demo “Crystal Dream 2″, as well as the FastTracker / FastTracker II music [...]
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. Images: Videos: Edit
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 Sims. The cancellation came [...]
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 conflict between the most elite [...]
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 to the now common bottom [...]
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 [...]
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