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Strelka Stories: the lost chapter in the “Little Tail Bronx” series (Tail Concerto, Solatorobo)

Strelka Stories is a cancelled action adventure game planned for Playstation 3 that was in development by CyberConnect2, as a new chapter in their “Little Tail Bronx” series composed of three main chapters: Tail Concerto (1998, Playstation), Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (2010, Nintendo DS) and Little Tail Story (2014, Android and iOS). The series is not widely known to the main public and sales were not great, but thanks to its fun gameplay, light hearted ani...

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Unseen64 Donations Details - April 2016

We have updated the donations amount with the funds raised in April 2016, as always you can find all details in our dedicated page: http://www.unseen64.net/how-to-he..


  • Preservation Fund @ March 2016:
    • Total: 2,800.29 $ (from Patreon + One-Off donations)
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Kanaan: the lost open world shooter by the makers of StarFox

In late '90 Argonaut Games were working on a new first person / third person open world game featuring dogs and other animals(inspired by StarFox?) but unfortunately the game was canned before to be completed: https://www.unseen64.net/2016/05/11/kanaan-argonaut-pc-cancelled/

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POLL: Unseen64 book updates and future projects / improvements!

Spring is arrived in full here in Italy and while outside the sun is hot and people start to eat ice-cream, we are still working hard on our computers to write articles for the Unseen64 book! Even if at the moment we don’t reach the needed goal for the book, as many of you already know we decided to put all of our free time and love into this project and kept working on it anyway.

The main section of the Unseen64 book is almost complete (we have wrote 226 art...

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Velvet Dark: the lost spinoff to Nintendo 64's Perfect Dark

A few months before Perfect Dark was completed, Duncan Botwood (Production Designer on GoldenEye and Level Designer on PD), Steve Malpass (Designer on PD) and possibly a few more people from the original team started to work on a new game that would have featured Joanna Dark’s sister: Velvet Dark  https://www.unseen64.net/2016/05/03/velvet-dark-n64-gamecube-cancelled/

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Deep Cover, a lost spy game by the makers of Thief and System Shock

Deep Cover was a first-person shooter being developed by Looking Glass Technologies and Irrational Games in the 1999 to 2000 period. During the development of System Shock 2, the Looking Glass team began work on a new game which would take the concepts of Thief: The Dark Project into a modern setting. Using the Dark Engine originally developed for Thief, the spy-espionage game took on the title of Deep Cover:  2016-04-26 18:57:25 +0000 UTC View Post

MediEvil 3: Fate's Arrow, the lost PS2 sequel to the cult series

A concept for a MediEvil sequel on the Playstation 2 was pitched back in early 2003, when the developers within Sony Cambridge were considering several options after the less than amazing sales of Primal. Titled MediEvil 3: Fate's Arrow, this pitch was soon canned and the game never seen the light of day. Read the full story:  https://www.unseen64.net/2016/04/19/...

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Metal Arms 2: the lost sequel of the cult classic

Who loved the original Metal Arms: Glitch in the System ? Well, the team was working on a sequel, to improve even more their great third person shooter, but unfortunately they were not able to continue it because of another lost game, StarCraft: Ghost. Indeed, two cancelled game at the same time: https://www.unseen64.net/2016/04/11/metal-arms-2-cancelled-xbox-ps2-gamecube/

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Unseen64 Donations Details - March 2016

We have updated the donations amount with the funds raised in February 2016, as always you can find all details in our dedicated page: http://www.unseen64.net/how-to-he..


  • Preservation Fund @ February 2016:
    • Total: 2,572.99 $ (from Patreon + One-Off donations)

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Video Article: the full story behind the lost Dirty Harry videogame

Another video investigation by Tamaki, this time trying to find out what really happened to the cancelled Dirty Harry videogame, that was in development by The Collective and was intended to be published by Warner Bros Interactive in the first half of 2007 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Additional versions were planned for Nintendo Wii, DS and PS2 to be released that same year.

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Eternal Chain: a cancelled Playstation RPG by the producers of Harvest Moon

Victor Interactive are mostly known for the production of the Harvest Moon series, but in late ‘90 they developed a few Playstation games, but their promising RPG Eternal Chain was never released. Character design for the game was created by popular artist Range Murata(Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6.). Read the full story: https://www.unseen64.net/2016/0...

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The lost Silent Scope reboot for PS3 and Xbox 360

Another lost reboot of a popular Japanese franchise in development by a western studio, this cancelled Silent Scope third person shooter / stealth game was planned for Xbox 360 and PS3 by Konami and Day 1 Studios: https://www.unseen64.net/2016/03/29/silent-scope-reboot-xbox-360-ps3-cancelled/

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Nexus 2 / WARP: a lost Space Combat sim from the makers of The Jupiter Incident

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident was a sci-fi RTS game developed by Hungarian-based Mithis Entertainment, published by HD Interactive on PC in 2004. While the game did not sell well at the time, it still gathered a cult following of fans, thanks to its different approach to strategy space battles. Soon after releasing Nexus, Mithis started the development of an action oriented sequel, but it was never completed: 2016-03-21 23:27:00 +0000 UTC View Post

The story behind the lost Superman game by Factor 5

Check out the latest video article by Tamaki, to find out more details about the cancelled Superman game that killed Factor 5.

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Frontier: a lost old-west simulation game pitched to Origin Systems

Frontier is a lost PC game pitched by Warren Spector  to Origin Systems with a planned to ship date of Q2 ’94, and was described as a system simulation of the taming of the old west. The high concept of this game was that the player would be a pioneer...

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Unseen64 Donations Details - February 2016

We have updated the donations amount with the funds raised in February 2016, as always you can find all details in our dedicated page: http://www.unseen64.net/how-to-he..

  • Preservation Fund @ January 2016:
    • Total: 2,319.32 $ (from Patreon + One-Off donations)
  • New Patreon Donations in February 2016 View Post

The lost OneChanbara Reboot by French Studio Darkworks

The now-closed French studio Darkworks tried to pitch a reboot of the OneChanbara series originally created by Tamsoft, the games in which to play as a girl in bikini and cowboy hat, slashing down enemies with double katanas. Could it have been better or worse than the original games? Probably we'll never know. Read the full story: https://www.unseen64.net/2016/03/08...

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P.I.G.: a cancelled Banjo-Kazooie alike platform adventure by Team 17

P.I.G. is an interesting 3D platform adventure game that was in development by Team 17 for Playstation and PC, with a planned release in spring 1999. The project was started around 1996, follow...

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The lost Pilotwings sequel planned by Factor 5 for GameCube

Find out what happened to the planned GameCube version of Pilotwings, in development by Factor 5

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Silent Hill: Cold Heart, the lost pitch that evolved into Shattered Memories

Cold Heart would have followed Jessica Chambers an athletic but emotionally vulnerable college student. The protagonist would have recently being talking to a psychiatrist after being plagued by horrific nightmares and being unable to sleep.

These distressing circumstances lead to Jessica leaving her college town and going on a road trip to go back to visit her parents, on the way back Jessica becomes caught in a blizzard and so follows an am...

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POLL: Should we test investing part of the Preservation Fund to archive even more unseen games?

Other great websites like Hardcore Gaming 101 are successfully adding more and more games in their archives thanks to paying authors for good articles.  As Unseen64 is mostly written by volunteers, we don't get any money for the articles we write and currently we are not able to add more than 4 games a month, being busy for the rest of our time with our day-jobs. As we h...

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Necroscope: a cancelled psychological survival horror by Rockstar Leeds

Necroscope is a cancelled psychological survival horror that was in development in 2002 / 2003 by Mobius Entertainment for Xbox and Playstation 2. In 2004 Mobius Entertainment was acquired by Rockstar Games (for which they already developed the GBA conversion of Max Payne in 2003) becoming Rockstar ...

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Unseen64 Donations Details - January 2016

We have updated the donations amount with the funds raised in January 2016, as always you can find all details in our dedicated page: http://www.unseen64.net/how-to-he..

  • Preservation Fund @ December 2015:
    • Total: 2,090.63 $ (from Patreon + One-Off donations)
  • New Patreon Donations for January 2...

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Warfare Afghanistan: the lost reboot for the Conflict series

Warfare Afghanistan is a cancelled third person team based tactical shooter that was in development by Pivotal Games in 2007 / 2008 for Xbox 360 and PS3. The project was meant to be a reboot of the Conflict series of which the last chapter was Conflict: Denied Ops, publish...

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Space Race: an undeveloped pitch for a sci-fi, free roaming racing game

Space Race was a game being pitched by Ion Storm to Origin for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive either on cart form or for the Sega CD. The game is described as a 3D racing game with a difference and was likened to Road Rash and Super Monaco Grand Prix, but taking that intense racing action into outer space, with the player at the helm of a futuristic space-racing ship:  View Post

Video Article: the lost Batman game by Pandemic Studios

Here is the first Unseen64 video of 2016 by Tamaki - it’s an extended look at ‘Batman: The Dark Knight’ from Pandemic Studios, which was based around Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight movie from 2008. Features new information, never before seen concept art, and character models; including their version of the Joker with Heath Ledger’s likeness. There’s also footage an in-engine tour of Gotham City, which has never previously been released in this quality: 2016-01-31 01:42:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Saints Row: Undercover, the lost PSP game randomly rediscovered in Volition’s storage room

Saints Row: Undercover was cancelled and the PSP dev kit on which the project was created was hidden away in one of Volition’s storage rooms. A few months ago the prototype was found again thanks to Josh Stinson (Associate Video Editor at Volition), that stumbled upon that PSP dev kit while looking around their office.

Read about the story behind it and download its design doc: 2016-01-25 17:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Unseen64 Donations Details - December 2015 + Poll!

We have updated the donations amount with the funds raised in December 2015, as always you can find all details in our dedicated page: http://www.unseen64.net/how-to-he..


  • Preservation Fund @ November 2015:
    • Total: 1,880.23 $ (from Patreon + One-Off donations)
  • New Patreon Donations fro...

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10th Planet: a lost Space Combat Sim we'll never play

After releasing DaggerFall, Bethesda Softworks  planned to publish an ambitious Space Combat Sim as a collaboration with the same Hollywood studio that created Independence Day, but unfortunately  the project was cancelled: https://www.unseen64.net/2016/01/12/10th-planet-bethesda-pc-cancelled/

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POLL TIME: Which should be Unseen64's next article?

Here's a new poll to ask you, our patrons, which one of these articles you'd like to see on Unseen64 as soon as possible! The last time "Fiv5" for PS3 was the winner and you'll see an article about it on the site in the following weeks / months. Who will win this time?

Here are the candidates:

- Silent Scope: a complete reboot of the classic Konami arcade game into a fast-paced action shooter

- Tomb Raiders: a cancelled coop Tomb Raider...

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