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Cancelled BioShock inspired adventures, Jurassic Park sim, Multiplayer SNES Board-RPG

Keeping up with our perfect queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, this week we added 3 cancelled games in the Unseen64 archive:   

Fate [Xbox 360, PS3]: Airtight Games was a development studio founded in 2004, formed by former members of FASA Studio, Will Vinton Studios and Microsoft. Between 2010 and 2011 the team was working on a new, unannounced AAA action adventure project titled “Fate”, possibly to be published by Square Enix or another unknow...

Lost Racing Game by Rockstar San Diego, Star Wars fights & Diablo clones for GBA

Keeping up with our random queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, this week we added 3 cancelled games in the Unseen64 archive:   

Sofa Kingdom [PC]: a cancelled arcade racing game that was in development by Angel Studios (the modern Rockstar San Diego) around 1998, planned to be published by Microsoft for PC.  This is another forgotten project that was never officially announced and only a series of concept art remain today to remember its existen...

Cancelled 3D RPG from the '90s, Sci-Fi Famicom adventure, FarCry on PSP and..

Keeping up with our ancient queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, this week we added 4 cancelled games in the Unseen64 archive:   

Forgotten Castle: The Awakening [PC]: a cancelled action RPG in development by Twin Dolphin Games around 1992 – 1993, to be published on PC by Electronic Arts. The project was quite ambitious for its time: a fully 3D explorable fantasy world in early ‘90s was something amazing to see in screenshots (The Elder Scrolls II...

Cancelled Free-Roaming Island Shooter by Pre-Blizzard devs, and another Gremlins video game

Keeping up with our unseen queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, this week we added 2 cancelled games in the Unseen64 archive:   

Gremlins [Xbox 360] As you probably know Gremlins is a 1984 comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released by Warner Bros, a commercial success spawning a sequel and lots of merchandise. A few officially licensed video games were published for Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Game Boy Color, Wii and DS. A Playstation 2 Greml...

Lost Nintendo RTS for GBA, Dark Space Combat Sims & N64 FPS

Keeping up with our obscure queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, this week we added 3 cancelled games in the Unseen64 archive:   

Hanasaki Gassen [GBA]a cancelled real-time strategy game for GBA that was in development by Blue Planet Software (AKA Bulletproof Software), the same company that created the original Tetris for Game Boy. The project was officially announced as one of the first games in development for the GameBoy Advance and it was being f...

Lost Saturn SRPG by Gainax, Coop Tomb Raider & N64 Coop with Ostriches

Keeping up with our niche queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, this week we added 3 cancelled games in the Unseen64 archive:   

Shinbatsu [Sega Saturn]a cancelled strategy / simulation game that was in development for the Sega Saturn around 1995. The project was being produced by popular animation studio Gainax, just a few months before the first original run of their cult-series: Evangelion 2019-04-03 20:46:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Lost Monkey-Stripping Moves, Cyberpunk & Haunted FPSs

Keeping up with our oooold queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, this week we added 3 cancelled games in the Unseen64 archive:  

Dancing Eyes HD [PS3]The original “Dancing Eyes” was a quirky puzzle game developed by Namco for Arcades in 1996. You move a small monkey on a grid around 3D girls to cut out their clothes piece by piece while avoiding enemies. An “HD Remake” of Dancing Eyes was announced in 2011 but later canned: 2019-03-29 19:12:41 +0000 UTC View Post

The Cancelled Battle Mania 3 for Dreamcast

Battle Mania 3 NY: Gankutsujouis a cancelled Dreamcast shoot ’em up that was in development by Takayan and a few more developers who already working on the original series. The first Battle Mania or Trouble Shooter as known in USA was developed and published by Vic Tokai for the Mega Drive / Genesis in 1991, with a sequel titled Battle Mania Daiginjou published in 1993 only in Japan. The game settings are a parody of classic anime tropes, with flying sci-fi girls shooting d...

Cancelled First-Person RPG, Bomberman clone & Cinematic Racing-Puzzle Game!

Keeping up with our strange queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, this week we added 3 new articles in the Unseen64 archive: 

Grafan [PC]: Grafan is a cancelled RPG supposed to be the first big project of 2003 freshly founded company EMOGENCE (Emotion-intelligence), consisting of ex Microsoft staff Herb Marselas and Chas (Charles) Boyd. Their ambitious plan was to create a PC first person action role playing game “…that delivers great gameplay and graph...

Ambitious Sci-Fi Virtual Universe + Forgotten Tank Games

Keeping up with our old queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, this week we added 2 new articles in the Unseen64 archive:  

3rd World [PC]a cancelled space simulator MMORPG that was in development between 1998 and 2002 by XYZ and and M.U.S.T. Corporation. You could create your own character and start living in this sci-fi virtual world, to survive against other players, trade with space travelers, own space stations or became a space-pirate. It was quit...

Cancelled Monster Hunting Game, MMORPG & Anime Kart-Racer

Keeping up with our bizarre queue of games waiting to be remembered on Unseen64, this week we added 3 new articles in the Unseen64 archive: 

Cryptid Hunter [PS3]: a cancelled action adventure monster hunting game that was in development for Playstation 3 by Saffire Corporation in the mid ‘00s. The game’s protagonist was Kipling Mckay, an “Indiana Jones meets Rocketeer and 1930’s Explorers” type of character. Cryptid Hunter was set in a Victorian Age of St...

Unseen Robot Worlds, Strategy Wars and Kung-Fu Adventures

Keeping up with our old queue of games waiting to be remembered on Unseen64, this week we added 3 new articles in the Unseen64 archive:  

“PreCore” (Armature Studio) [Xbox 360, PS3 – Cancelled]: In April 2008, after completing Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for Nintendo, game director Mark Pacini, art director Todd Keller, and principal technology engineer Jack Matthews left Retro Studios to start Armature Studio. Between 2010 and 2011 Armature were working on a...

Two lost RPGs for Nintendo 64 & Game Boy

Keeping up with our buuuuusy queue of games waiting to be remembered on Unseen64, this week we added new 2 articles in the Unseen64 archive:    

Dear Blue [Nintendo 64]:a Konami RPG for Nintendo 64 that seems to have been quietly announced in 1998 on the March issue of Nintendo Power Magazine (Volume 106) and later seen in many list of “in development” N64 projects (such as this on by IGN): 2019-02-11 18:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post

2 Cancelled Sequels of Obscure PS1 & Dreamcast Games

Keeping up with our not-forgotten queue of games waiting to be remembered on  Unseen64, this week we added new 2 articles in the Unseen64 archive:    

Ninth Will (Seventh Cross 2) [Dreamcast] In 1998 Atypical Alchemists Associate and NEC Home Electronics developed and published a weird simulation game for the Dreamcast, titled “Seventh Cross Evolution”. Similar to other “life evolution RPGs” such as EVO: Search for Eden (SNES) or Cubivor...

Moon 2 (LoveDeLic) & Cleric (Plutonium Games)

Keeping up with our bizarre queue of games waiting to be remembered on Unseen64, this week we added new 2 articles in the Unseen64 archive:   

MooN 2 [PS1] LoveDeLic were one of the most interesting and creative Japanese developers active during the late ‘90s / early ‘00s. They developed cult-classic, peculiar titles such as Moon: Remix RPG Adventure. After their first game was published by ASCII Entertainment in 1997 for the original Playstation, Lov...

Cancelled Contra & George Orwell’s 1984 Video Game

Keeping up with our incredible queue of games waiting to be remembered on Unseen64, this week we added new 2 articles in our archive:  

Contra Online [PS2, Xbox, PC]:After the cancellation of Castlevania: Resurrection and the death of the Dreamcast, the same team at Konami of America pitched a few other projects for different consoles. One of these unrealized games was a new 3D Contra with online multiplayer, planned to be developed for PS2, Xbox and PC: ...

3 Cancelled Games by Naughty Dog, Square & Microsoft

Keeping up with our infinite queue of games waiting to be remembered on Unseen64, this week we added new 3 articles in our archive: 

Naughty Dog’s Lost Sci-Fi Game (Savage Starlight?) [PS3]: Today Naughty Dog is mostly loved for their modern-world adventures, such as the Uncharted and The Last of Us Series, but during the PS2 generation they were mostly known for their Fantasy Sci-Fi series: Jak and Daxter. It’s easy to see how they would have considered a...

Unseen64 Survived 2018, but what can we do in 2019?

2019 is coming soon and as every year we’d like to review what we did the last year and make some plans for the new one.

As most of you known we work on Unseen64 in our own free time, after a long day of our day-jobs. We take away this extra time from our sleep, friends and family just to search info on lost games, write articles, read Unseen64 related emails, reply to messages on social networks, resolve technical is...

Justice for Hire: a Lost PS1 Survival Horror

Justice for Hire is a cancelled action adventure / survival horror game that was in development by Big Ape Productions, planned to be published by Midway for the original Playstation. BAP was a small studio based in Novato (CA), that worked on such games as Herc’s Adventures, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, The Simpsons Wrestling and Celebrity Deathmatch. The game featured pre-rendered backgrounds, similar to Resident Evil or Fear Effect: 2018-12-21 17:42:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Cancelled Action RPG for DS & Sci-Fi Adventure for PS3, Xbox 360

Keeping up with our epic queue of games waiting to be remembered on Unseen64, this week we added new 2 articles in our  archive:

Shining Legendis a cancelled action RPG that was in development by Blueside for Nintendo DS. While the title could reminds you of SEGA’s Shining series, this project was not officially related to it. Blueside is mostly known for their work on the Kingdom Under Fire series and it’s composed by former Phantagram developers. Gameplay was also a...

A Cancelled Party-Fighting Game from the Ready 2 Rumble Team

Ready 2 Rumble Boxing was a fighting game developed by Midway San Diego and published in 1999 initially for the Dreamcast. In 1998 the same team conceived another similar 3D fighting game, set in old-school sci-fi / fantasy settings. This cancelled project was titled “X-Fighters” and would have featured such characters as a mad scientist, space-cop girls and warriors from alien planets: 2018-12-06 17:39:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Rare's Cancelled "Casual Monster Hunter" Game

In the ‘90s Rare was one of the favorite developers for Nintendo fans, publishing such cult classic titles as Donkey Kong Country, Battletoads, GoldenEye 007 and Banjo-Kazooie. When the company was acquired by Microsoft in 2002 many things changed. In 2010 Scott Henson became the new Rare studio manager and for a few of years they mostly worked on Kinect Sports, Kinect pitches and Xbox Live Avatars for Xbox 360. Unfortunately many of their original ideas for new games never seen the light of d...

A Cancelled N64 Racing Game by the GTA Team

Go Carts is a cancelled racing game planned for Nintendo 64 that was in development by DMA Design, the studio that created such popular games as Lemmings and the first Grand Theft Auto, other than cult titles as Space Station Silicon Valley and Body Harvest. Before working on the new 64 bit console, DMA already had a successful collaboration with Nintendo on the SNES with Uniracers, an original racing game in which players use unicycles to compete in high-speed tracks while doings tricks to gain...

Chi Yong: a Cancelled 4-Players Mortal Kombat

Chi Yong is a cancelled fighting game in development by Lightspeed Productions for the original Playstation in 1996. This is quite an obscure and forgotten project: we can’t even find any detail about its developers. Chi Yong was officially announced in a few websites and gaming magazines in late 1996. It was meant to be a 4 players fighting game game featuring digitized actors, similar to Mortal Kombat. Some of the actors were even the same: 2018-11-14 17:56:08 +0000 UTC View Post

WET 2 + Cancelled Rival Schools Inspired Fighting Game by the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale team

Keeping up with our really (really) long queue of games waiting to be remembered on Unseen64, this week we added new 2 cancelled games in our archive:    

SuperBot’s “Rival Schools” [PS3]: SuperBot Entertainment was an American studio formed in 2009 by Sony, to work on PSP, PS Vita and Playstation 3 exclusive games such as PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, released on November 2012. Unfortunately after the release of All-Stars Battle Royale, Sony cut ties with the compa...

Two Cancelled Horror Games for Your Unseen Halloween

Halloween is here, so why not remembering some cancelled horror games we will never play? Keeping up with our scary looooong queue of games still waiting to be added to the Unseen64 archive, here are 2 new cancelled games:

Black Death [Xbox 360, PS3, PC]: a cancelled FPS / Survival Horror game somehow similar to Condemned and Dead Island, in development by Darkworks around 2011. It was meant to be the personification of the fear generated by pandemics and the mistrust which ha...

Energy: the Open World "Tomb Raider Killer" Cancelled in 1997

Energy is a cancelled open world adventure game in development by spanish studios Zeus Software between 1995 and 1997. While the Tomb Raider craze started in 1996 when the first game was released, Energy’s main female protagonist was already conceived before it and the project was intended to be much more ambitious than Core Design’s popular action adventure. Imagine Energy’s gameplay as some kind of Tomb Raider mixed with a smaller-scale The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall: 2018-10-26 16:02:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Cancelled N64 Stealth Game + Forgotten PS2 Survival Horror!

Keeping up with our super, extreeemely long queue of games waiting to be remembered  on Unseen64, this week we added new 2 articles in our archive:    

Thieves World [N64]: You might remember a game called Rogue Ops that was released on Xbox, Gamecube and Playstation 2 way back in 2003. Well, this game wasn’t always called that way. When the developer Bits Studios started the project during the Nintendo 64 era, this was called Thieves World. The game...

Rockstar San Diego's Cancelled VR Game & The Sandman by Silicon Knights

Keeping up with our loooooooong queue of games waiting to be remembered on Unseen64, this week we added new 2 articles in our archive:   

The Sandman [Xbox 360, PS3]: a cancelled third person shooter / action game once in development at Silicon Knights around 2009. While the game was never officially announced by the company and we don’t have any details about its story and gameplay, by looking and the remaining concept art preserved in the gallery below we ca...

A Cancelled VR Console from 1992 + a Lost "Diablo 2 with Guns"

Keeping up with our super-long queue of games waiting to be remembered on Unseen64, this week we added 2 articles in our archive:  

Hasbro Toaster VR [Cancelled 1992 Virtual Reality Console]: The acquisition of Milton Bradley (the company responsible for the VecTrex) in 1984 was an early step in that direction. Hasbro began to plan the development of a new gaming console, and two different projects were conceived: Control-Vision (a VHS console originally known as Pro...