Others, PC / MAC, Playstation, Sony

Professional Sportscar Racing [PSX/PC – Beta?]

monokoma
25-04-2011
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Update: thanks to Anonymous we found out that this game was released as “Sportscar GT” by Electronic Arts, that bought out Virgin Interactive. The screens below could still be different from the final game, so let us know if you see any differences!

In 1997 / 1998 Virgin Interactive were working on a new racing game for the original Playstation and PC know as “Professional Sportscar Racing” but it seems that the project was never released. The game was based on the license for the pro organization of the same name, a competition that was sponsored by the same Virgin Interactive.  Maybe Virgin had some problems with the PSR  license and the development could have been stopped. In the original press release we can read:

Fast driving, intensely competitive Grand Touring racing simulation game. For the player’s driving pleasure, all of the dream cars racing in the 1998 season of the Professional SportsCar championship will be authentically re-created including the internationally famous Panoz Esperante.

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Microsoft, Playstation 3 (PS3), Sony, Xbox 360

Vanquish [X360 PS3 – Beta]

yota
23-04-2011
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Vanquish is a third-person shooter created by Platinum Games for the Ps3/Xbox 360 that was released in 2010. In his blog , Shinji Mikami made some posts with many info about the development of the game:

  • Vanquish was originally a more open-ended game: we had to search and destroy enemy bases.
  • In the beginning there was much more emphasis on hand-to-hand combat, because Mikami wanted to reproduce the fighting scenes of the anime Casshern.
  • Sam’s suit was supposed to be empty and alternately controlled from distance by three pilots.  One of them had the ability to fly, while the other two were specialized respectively in shooting and melee combat.
  • The main character could have used a robot dog (see the video below).

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Playstation, Sony

Firefly [PSX – Cancelled]

monokoma
19-04-2011
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Firefly is a cancelled game that was in development by Pioneer LDC for the Playstation. There are not many info about this project, but a short article published in an old GameFan magazine (4 – 2) in which we can read that Firefly was going to be a mix between a platform, a shoot ’em up and a puzzle game. The description sounds interesting, but sadly Pioneer never released a anything like this on any console.

Thanks to Celine for the contribution!

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Microsoft, Xbox

G [Xbox – Cancelled]

U64 Staff & Contributors
15-04-2011
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G is a cancelled multi-player hover-bike racer for the original Xbox, in development at FASA Studios (Shadowrun, Crimson Skies) from late 2002 till late 2003. It’s possible that the project was canned because they had to switch time and resources to finish Mechassault 2. Sadly only a video remains from G, preserved below to remember the existence of this interesting game.

Thanks to Foward for the contribution!

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Unseen News

[New Article] Alan Wake Beta Analysis

U64 Staff & Contributors
12-04-2011
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Alan wake was developed by Remedy Entertainment (creators of the Max Payne series) and published for the Xbox 360. Originally, the game was planned to be released on all next-gen platforms, but  later it was announced only for pc and xbox 360. However, at end the computer porting got cancelled,because Microsoft didn’t want to lose an important exclusive for his console.Remedy has stated that  a windows edition of Alan wake is “not on the cards at the moment.” >> Read the full article