Unseen News

Fate [PC – Cancelled]

Fate is a game which was in development in 1996 by DogBone Software and was going to be published by Intracorp. The game was being made with the Build Engine, a first-person shooter engine created by Ken Silverman for 3D Realms (used for Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood and Redneck Rampage).  Sadly Intracorp went bankrupt before the game could be completed. [Infos from Wikipedia]

A playable demo was released before the cancellation and you can download it  from the DOS Museum!

Thanks to Celine for the contribution!

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Hellgate (Dreamcast) preserved and leaked!

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Hellgate was a cancelled racing / third person shooter that was in development for the Dreamcast. As some of you already know, in March 2009 a playable built of this game was somehow recovered from a DC DEV-BOX unit and it was shared online for everyone. Now it can be played and preserved! Huge props to whoever was able to save this from being lost forever :)

You can download Hellgate in here and here (thanks to X-Cult for the mirror!). If you are just too lazy to try it, you can just take a look at this gameplay video from Dreamcastjunkyard youtube channel:

 

[Petition] Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D Editor

LukA_YJK has posted a message in our forum to find more people interested in the release of the Rogue Squadron 3D Level Editor, to try to collect enough signatures to impress LucasArts and Factor 5 for a chance that they could share the Level Editor with the fans. We dont know it this could be useful, but we’d like to help: you can check and sign the petition in here. Good luck!

Dear LucasArts and Factor 5,

We are a group of enthusiastic fans of your great PC platform computer game, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D. For more than ten years this game, which became a Star Wars arcade game classics, was a source of inspiration for many and many Star Wars fans. But unlike some other Star Wars games there is not any tool available which would let fan community to expand the game by developing additional levels and modifications.

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As it is known Factor5 used its in-house level editor L3D to design game levels for Rogue Squadron and Rogue Leader. In fact this tool is not used anymore for any other games because it is out-of-date by now.

Therefore we ask you to release freely the Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D level editor. It would allow us to use our creativity to revive the game and expand it with fantastic add-ons. The editor would also serve as a new item in the arsenal of all those enthusiastic fans of Star Wars games.

We are very much looking forward for your kind and helpful decision

Sincerely,
The Undersigned

 

Kartoon Kombat: text from the lost game

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As we read in his Unseen Interview, Mr. Mark has recently acquired a copy (the last and only one?) of Kartoon Kombat, a cancelled fighting game that was in development for the Genesis. Sadly the ROM was damaged in such a way that it will most likely never be playable, but a friend of Mark (known as ZZap! on most forums) was able to extract some interesting text. This is what he was able to uncover: