Unseen News

Cobra Blade has sent to us some interesting infos about the cancelled Chakan project for the Dreamcast: “This sequel to the Genesis hit was under development by the original’s creator Ed Annunziata and his new studio AndNow. While there was no official cancellation declared, the project would be dropped and the lead artist would then reuse the majority of the concepts and designs for Blood Omen 2 which he was the lead artist and co-writer of.” Thank you Cobra! This was really usefull

Searching through the net, i have found The Lost Worlds website, that has some more informations about these Chakan / Blood Omen 2 connections:

“Depicted in this artwork for Chakan are quite a few elements which are familiar. In addition to the general similarity of themes:

* Chakan himself differs from the Blood Omen 2-era Kain only in that his body and face are harder-worn and he wears a hat.
* A worm-riding character is clearly the predecessor to Umah.
* Several enemies bear the “broken ankh” symbol of the Sarafan in Blood Omen 2.
* Enemy designs range from very similar to virtually identical.
* The depiction of the streets of the city is essentially a futuristic version of Meridian.

In addition, a preview of Chakan described its plot arc as “[evolving] from a fantasy story to a pure science-fiction setting” – just like Blood Omen 2.

Some time later, IGN forum member Embla discovered an even older unreleased Steve Ross project – Sirens. A 1997-era PlanetQuake page (no longer online) was dedicated to a proof-of-concept that Ross and Joshua Gordon had created using the engine from the original Quake.”

You can read more about it in here: Chakan & Sirens 

We are happy to welcome Xavio to the Unseen 64 staff! As always there is not much to say in here, you will see what he’s capable to do in the next few days :) The staff is getting bigger everyday, should we stop to hire people? Not yet. There are too many unseen games out there, we need an army of beta geeks.

Maybe you have already seen some of these, but Carnivol has a nice list of beta videos in his YouTube channel, like an old presentation for Mario RPG, an interview about Parasite Eve with some “work in progress” parts, a look at Chocobo De Battle in motion and an early footage of Chrono Trigger. Props to him!

This article is only in italian, sorry!

I ragazzi di www.gamescollection.it hanno organizzato l’evento 2008 per tutti i veri maniaci di videogames, con una fiera interamente dedicata alle collezioni di pezzi rari, retrogaming, riviste d’epoca e tornei con ricchi premi. La parte davvero interessante per noi beta geeks, sarà la possibilità di osservare dal vivo un’affascinante raccolta di materiale “unseen”, con kit di sviluppo originali e prototipi di videogiochi mai usciti.. un occasione per conoscere e parlare con i maggiori collezionisti italiani e magari scoprire che posseggono qualche beta del nostro gioco preferito! L’incontro è previsto nelle giornate di venerdi 23, sabato 24 e domenica 25 maggio, si svolgerà a Monza, in via Filippo Turati 8, presso l’Urban Center (Aperto tutti i giorni dalle 11 alle 20).

Per maggiori informazioni: www.gamescollection.it/events/show/4

Lo staff italiano di Unseen64 cercherà di essere presente all’evento, almeno in una delle giornate, per un po’ di sane pubbliche relazioni con i collezionisti, cercando qualche informazione esclusiva sui loro prototipi, foto e video ancora unseen! Se passate anche voi da quelle parti fateci sapere, potremmo anche svolgere un piccolo U64 meeting ;)