BattleCry is a cancelled Free-To-Play multiplayer Third Person Hero Shooter game developed only for PC by BattleCry Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks between 2012 and 2015. The game was set in an alternate 20th century universe where a cataclysmic world war forced powerful empires to ban gun powder under…
How to Track Down Former Game Developers When a Cancelled Game Has No Paper Trail
Some cancelled games leave traces. One leaked build, a few screenshots in an old magazine, a passing reference in an investor report. Those are the easy ones. It’s those hard cases, where nothing is left but a name in a credits list for another project, a foggy post from a…
The Ghost in the Machine: The 2019 “No Compromises” Build of Path of Exile Mobile
In the world of video game preservation, there is a special category reserved for the “perpetual beta”—titles that are publicly demonstrated, playable by attendees, and then vanish into a multi-year development cycle that fundamentally alters their DNA. One of the most fascinating examples in modern ARPG history is the 2019…
Ronin (Sony Online Entertainment) [PC/ PS3 ?/ PS4 ?- Cancelled]
Ronin is a cancelled futuristic post-apocalyptic/dieselpunk open world multiplayer action game developed by Sony Online Entertainment in the 2010’s for the PC, but also could have been developed for one of Sony’s video game console, whether the Playstation 3 or the Playstation 4. Very few information can be found on…
Maximum Gauge [Cancelled – PC/PSX]
Maximum Gauge was an 2D/3D adventure game with a sci-fi theme in development for the PC and the Playstation 1, developed by Big Grub and published by MGM Interactive. Gregg Tavares, who was Programmer at the time, described the game as “take Diablo but make it play like The Legend…