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Five years on from its formation and with just one game to show for it, EA has confirmed that its collaborative partnership with Hollywood movie director Steven Spielberg has been cancelled. The pair has until recently still thought to be working on the secretive Project LMNO. However, speaking to Gamasutra …
Read More »Konami denies Castlevania CE cancellation
The Collector’s Edition of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow has not been cancelled, despite claims being made online. Retailer GAME issued this following statement via Twitter this morning: Castlevania fans! Lords of Shadow Collector’s Ed has been pulled by the publisher and is no longer happening.” Konami has now told MCV …
Read More »Force Unleashed II ditches PSP
LucasArts has confirmed to IGN that it has scrapped plans to release Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II on PSP this October. A version for the Sony handheld was due to arrive alongside the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS, PC and iPhone version on October 29th in the UK (and …
Read More »Zynga embroiled in Street Racing row
The unyielding level of authority Zynga has over its paying customers was exposed this week, as fans of social network game Street Racing continue to protest an unexplained decision to abolish the game. Those fans, having together invested untold amounts of real money into the Facebook game, have been told …
Read More »Cancelled Aliens RPG was complete
The CEO of development studio Obsidian has claimed that his studios’ cancelled Aliens RPG was, to all intents and purposes, complete when Sega decided to pull the plug. If you had come in and played any of the last builds we were working on, you would have said it was …
Read More »Langdell Edged out in trademark dispute
Tim Langdell’s confrontational use of the Edge trademark may be coming to an end, marking the end of one of the most popular legal tirades the games industry has ever experienced. A new legal document in circulation suggests that the Edge Games boss will likely lose trademark protection on the …
Read More »Bourne cancellation confirmed
As speculated by MCV yesterday, it has been confirmed that Starbreeze’s cancelled EA project is indeed the previously confirmed game based on Robert Ludlam’s spy character Jason Bourne. Immediate questions were asked of the future of EA’s ten-year agreement with Ludlam Entertainment, but both parties have since pledged their commitment …
Read More »EA cancels Starbreeze title
One of the titles that was due to emerge from the recent partnership between publisher EA and developer Starbreeze has been cancelled, the developer has confirmed – though which title has been canned remains a mystery. EA had previously confirmed that Starbreeze was working on a brand new title based …
Read More »Aliens: Colonial Marines resurfaces
Having missed its 2009 release date, Sega’s Aliens: Colonial Marines has been TBC on the publisher’s release schedule for some time now – but Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has once again began hyping the upcoming licensed title. We have an Aliens game with Sega and 20th Century Fox which we’re …
Read More »Microsoft killed Kameo 2
Consumer games site CVG is reporting that Microsoft has pulled the plug on a number of games in development at Rare – including a sequel to Xbox 360 launch title Kameo. The portal claims that Rare earlier this year underwent a company-wide restructure” in an effort to focus its resources …
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