Metal Lancer is a cancelled first-person space shooter that was being developed by Yuji Naka for Mega Drive / Genesis in 1990. It’s the last project on which the the legendary japanese programmer worked on before Sonic The Hedgehog(1991): https://www.unseen64.net/2016/10/24/metal-lancer-genesis-megadrive-cancelled/
Attack of the Killer Rabbids from outer Space, later retitled Killer Freaks from outer Space, was a first person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montpellier that would eventually become ZombiU for the Wii U. Originally planned as an untitled horror shooter for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2010, the game was already intended to be a part of the Rayman spinoff series Raving Rabbids wherein earth was attacked by a much more frightening “cousin” of the Rabbids. Early c...
2016-10-18 16:14:53 +0000 UTC View Post
We have updated the donations amount with the funds raised in September 2016 , as always you can find all details in our dedicated page: http://www.unseen64.net/how-to-help-u64/donations-details/
Werewolf: The Apocalypse was a game planned for PC that was being produced by ASC Games and developed by Dreamforge Intertainment, both of which have worked together previously on the horror point and click game Sanitarium for PC. The game was based on the popular pen and paper tabletop series of the same name created by White Wolf Publishing and would have run on the Unreal engine by Epic Games. The game, along with other popular series such as Vampire: The Masquerade <...
2016-10-10 15:08:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Whore of the Orient is a cancelled game from Team Bondi and Kennedy Miller Mitchell, it was a spiritual successor to L.A Noire and planned to be released for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Like L.A Noire you would play as a detective but this time in 1930s Shanghai, it would also use the motion scan technology that was first used in L.A Noire: https://www.unseen64.net/2016/10/03/whore-orient-team-bo...
2016-10-03 17:39:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Unseen64 is back with site updates! An article published in the August 1998 issue of the beloved Edge Magazine is all the information that we currently possess from Lethal Encounter, developed by Digital Image Design, a British software house that had earned its place in the market with its cutting-edge PC flight simulators and training prog...
2016-09-26 09:14:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Ciao! How are you? We hope you are fine, we are still a bit tired after all the work done on the Unseen64 book and this week was still super busy following the book release, answering to readers’ questions and comments. At least we did it, the book is published and all those obscure, unseen and interesting stories will be preserved in physical form too, we are quite happy for this achievement :) Remember that the Unseen64 book would have not be possible without your sup...
2016-09-25 14:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s finally here, after almost two years of work: our book about lost videogames! In this volume you can read about more than 200 cancelled games, starting from early ‘90s computers, to 8-bit games and all the way through to the 7th generation of consoles with Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. In this book you can find the most interesting cancelled games from the 2016-09-19 11:56:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In this new video article by Tamaki you'll find out what happened to the cancelled Ghost Rider videogame by Neversoft Entertainment, planned to be published on the original Playstation, enjoy! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B71eqdMHB3NmVlRRXzJ4RzNQYW8/view
It's finally here! The first printed proof-copy of our book! This is still a "beta" version, we are now fixing a few print issues, as some images that are too dark, but if there are not any other major problems we should be able to finally publish it in a couple of weeks. If you have any question about the book, let us know in the comments below! Thanks for your support! This book would have not be possible without your support on Patreon :)
A new video article by Tamaki, find out the hidden story about Factor5 and a few more lost games set in the Star Wars universe!
It’s super hot here in Italy, our PCs are melting down while we are working 9+ hours a day to complete the Unseen64 book, but we really want to finish everything in time to publish it in September ! Will we able to finish it in time? Fingers crossed :) There’s still a lot to do, so to rise our chances to reach our objective we will pause new site updates for a few weeks, and we’ll be back with new articles...
2016-08-10 16:14:15 +0000 UTC View Post
With a title probably inspired by the classic
for Atari 2600,
Raid Over the River
is a cancelled
that was in development in 2006 for
Nintendo DS
by the infamous
Among the hundreds of articles, interviews and details about lost videogames, in our upcoming book we'll also have an updated and expanded version of the full history of Unseen64, with images and staff photos from the late '90s, a fun trip down the memory line for old and new friends that support us after more than 15 years of archiving unseen games. You can read and download a PDF previewfrom here: 2016-07-28 09:23:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Heroes of Might and Magic 5 is a turn-based strategy game developed by Nival Interactive and published by Ubisoft in May 2006, as a reboot of the series. As we can read on Wikipedia Ubisoft acquired the rights to Might and Magic as far back as 2003, when 3DO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. At the time New World ...
2016-07-26 16:32:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Prax War 2018 was an ambitious FPS that was in development in late ‘90s byRebel Boat Rocker and would have been published by Electronic Arts, but it wascancelled in january 1999 when...
2016-07-21 07:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post
We have updated the donations amount with the funds raised in May 2016, as always you can find all details in our dedicated page: http://www.unseen64.net/how-to-he
GUNNARr
is a cancelled side-scrolling
action RPG
that was in development by
BlossomSoft
for
in late ‘00s. This was just one of the many games that the team was working on at the same time, along with Western Lords (GBA, PC), Sagrada Guardians (DS) and Mimic Book (DS), unfortunately
neither of...
2016-07-12 15:00:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The first Cel Damage was an interesting racing / combat game developed by Pseudo Interactive and published by Electronic Arts for XBOX, PS2 and GameCube. The game is a cartoony take on vehicular combat games like Twisted Metal and the sequel would have improved the gameplay in every way. Find out what happened to this cancelled project in a new Unseen64 video by Tamaki
The classic point and click adventure from LucasArts was a little different before the final version. The game was developed by LucasArts and released in 1992 as a sequel to “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure”. Originally Fate of Atlantis was meant to be a tie-in to2016-07-05 17:22:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The Terror of Tech Town (also known as Tektown) is a cancelled NES game that was in development since late ‘80s by Mattel for their classic Power Glove motion controller. One presumed screenshot of Tech Town seems to have been published in a Power Glove Press Kit showing an updated version of a 1985 Commodore 64 tech demotitled “Time Crystal”, created by Jim Sach. Read the full story: 2016-06-27 12:03:17 +0000 UTC View Post
In this new video article by Tamaki, we can find out what happened to the cancelled Daredevil's open world game, in development for PS2 and Xbox. Enjoy!
G.I. Ant is a cancelled real-time strategy game that was in development by SegaSoft / Sega Interactive for PC in late ‘90s. The project was inspired by classic RTS such as Warcraft II and Command & Conquer, with an original hand-to-hand combat following the team’s past experience with Eternal Champions, a 2D fighting game released for Genesis / Mega Drive: 2016-06-21 19:48:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a new poll to ask you, our patrons, which one of these articles
you'd like to see in the Unseen64 Book when it will be published in just a few months. While the main book content is already completed, we could still be able to add one or two last-minute articles to it and we'd like to know your opinion :)
Here are the candidates:
- Klepto 64: a game about stealing precious artifacts from well-guarded buildings using a grapple-hook mechanic simi...
2016-06-19 22:43:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Gunhero is a lost action game in development in 2007, set in a post zombie-apocalypse world and focused on using melee weapons and close quarter combat, somehow preceding what Techland did 4 years later with Dead Island and one year before the release of Left 4 Dead: https://www.unseen64.net/2016/06/14/gunhero-cancelled-ps3-xbox-360/
We have updated the donations amount with the funds raised in May 2016, as always you can find all details in our dedicated page: http://www.unseen64.net/how-to-he
This month we have successfully paid the Unseen64 server till August 2017!
After 1 year and half of collective volunteer work during our (not much) spare time, sleepless nights researching, contacting developers and writing about lost games, 40+ authors that contributed with articles… our book is almost complete! Articles, related content and interviews are about 95% ready, all our (last) energies and efforts are focused to be able to publish the book this summer or early autumn. When the content wil...
2016-06-10 12:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
A new video article by Tamaki, the story behind a new saga of Perfect Dark games headed by Conker's Bad Fur day director, Chris Seavor, that was never realised. Enjoy!
The Lord of the Creatures is a cancelled fantasy strategy / adventure game that was in development by Spanish studio Arvirago Entertainment (a team composed of former Pyro Studios devs, creators of the Commandos RTS series) for 2016-05-31 16:23:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Captain Blood is a cancelled pirate-themed action adventure based on a series of novels by Rafael Sabatini, that was in development for PC and Xbox 360 since 2003 by Russian studio Akella. The game was never officially canned and in the last 13 years it had multiple reboots, becoming a legendary vaporware labeled by some fans as “The Russian Duke Nukem Forever”: 2016-05-24 23:26:57 +0000 UTC View Post