News Tagged: Cancelled
News: Mirror's Edge Wii Concept Art Surfaces
Shows a cartoony look for scrapped port.
Last fall, DICE's Mirror's Edge turned out to be a fairly divisive title for 360/PS3/PC gamers; some applauded it's new take on first-person gameplay by utilizing parkour elements, others found it to be an exercise in disorienting trial-and-error frustration.You know what else is divisive in gaming? Wii ports. EA, the title's publisher, was apparently keen..
News: Brutal Legend Wii Cancelled
No rockin' sauce for you
It is with a heavy heart that we have to report that the Wii version of Brutal Legend - the Jack Black-starring rock epic from the guy who did Full Throttle - has been cancelled. Terminated. Buried. DESTROYED.According to Destructoid, the plug was pulled "due to quality and technical concerns".While little solid information exists about the Wii version - it wasn't..
News: Castlevania Movie Bites The Dust
The Belmont's Hollywood debut is cancelled
Although Hollywood's track record with video game adaptations has been less than impressive over the years (see Super Mario Bros. for proof) we have to admit we were a little excited about Paul W. S. Anderson's proposed Castlevania movie.Announced back in 2005, the film was due to begin production in 2006 but things started to go amiss and Resident Evil..
News: Aliens: Colonial Marines DS Trailer Leaked?
Could this be Wayforward's spiritual follow-up to Contra 4?
A mysterious trailer has hit YouTube recently that appears to show footage from Aliens: Colonial Marines for the Nintendo DS.The previously unheard of game appears to have been coded by highly respected developer Wayforward. While we're not entirely convinced this is a 100% official video, it certainly looks very polished for a fake..
News: No Madden NFL On DS This Year
EA's Gridiron franchise is Wii only for '10
EA has confirmed that its best-selling Madden NFL franchise will be skipping the DS for the 2010 edition.Rumours started to circulate when EA revealed the cover artwork for Madden NFL 10 and the DS version was missing, but EA Sports' Senior PR Manager Rob Semsey has confirmed what DS-owning American Football fans had feared: We set extremely high..
News: It’s Tyson vs. Aliens in Aborted NES Punch Out!! Sequel
Rare ROM surfaces after 17 years lost in space
The Wii version of Punch Out!! is going to be with us shortly so what better time for a kindly NES collector to release the ROM for the awesomely bad Mike Tyson's Intergalactic Power Punch (the aborted sequel to the original NES Punch Out!! which was eventually released - sans Tyson - as Power Punch II) – onto the internet.And before you ask, there..
News: The Red Steel 2 That You Will Never Play
Leaked screens of the canned sequel hit the net
Red Steel was one of the Wii’s first real disappointments – it promised so much, yet ultimately failed to deliver. However, the potential was there and that’s why we’ve been pretty keen to see the sequel.Surprisingly, the version of Red Steel 2 that we’ll eventually be getting is one of two editions that Ubisoft has been working on; the..
News: Nintendo Deny That Sadness Exists
Promising survival horror is something of a phantom
Sadness is a game that many Wii owners got excited about when it was first ‘announced’ by developer Nibris quite some time ago. The concept of a stylish black & white survival horror positively dripped tension and foreboding, and the production artwork looked extremely intriguing. However, following on from rumours that the game had been..
News: Halo DS
IGN's Matt C also shows us the Halo DS that he was piping on about for so long... and NO, it's not coming out, its been canceled.
My Halo DS blog has haunted me since I posted it because many people were skeptical of my claims. I wouldn't make something like that up, of course, but that hardly silenced any of my critics. When my brother called me the other day and told me that I even have a..
News: Quick! Super Mario The Lost Levels Almost Lost
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, originally released on the Famicon and then again on the Virtual Console last month, will be deleted off the VC list in just over an hour.
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels is the original sequel to Super Mario Bros. and was only released in Japan. The game was very difficult and for this reason it wasn't released elsewhere. instead a similar but much easier and..
News: Project C.A.N.C.E.L.L.E.D.
Nintendo admit that resources have been moved off the Project HAMMER title and onto other things.
According to Joystiq, Nintendo's Beth Llewellyn had the following to say after this years E3 get-together. What’s the status of Project H.A.M.M.E.R. or Disaster: Day of Crisis?Disaster is still in development. Project H.A.M.M.E.R. we’ve sort of shifted resources off that title. But Disaster is..
