Unseen News

In a post at Nosgothic Realm, FallenVVarrior found the web page of an artist that worked on a cancelled sequel of Legacy of Kain in 2005. You can see the various models and environments created for the game here.

Source: Neogaf Forum  

It seems that finally an organization is going to seriously work in collaboration with developers to try to preserve the games that could be lost forever. As we can read on their website “The National Videogame Archive is a joint project between the National Media Museum and Nottingham Trent University, which aims to celebrate that culture and preserve that history for researchers, developers, game fans and the public”. With the Save The Videogame campaign they are trying to “encourage a debate about what games are, what they mean to the people who play them, and what elements of them should be preserved” […] “Consoles, cartridges, discs, and tapes gather dust in lofts. Crucial prototypes get thrown away when studios go bust, rare versions of classic games are lost forever. Every day, we lose another little bit of our history.” Will they be able to save prototypes and share media from cancelled games? We sure hope so! U64 is just a little group of geeks and we cant really do much, but if a serious organization will be able to keep up with a project like this, more unseen games could be saved. Good luck TNVA! 

A news on Gamespot from some days ago talked about the financial troubles that are going on at Brash Entertainment: over 20 employees will be laying off and they are looking to ditch rights for a bunch of unfinished games that were currently in development. Superman (by Factor 5?), Tale of Desperaux, Prison Break, Night at the Museum 2, Clash of the Titans and 300 could be cancelled if they dont find any other publishers that would like to release them. More games for the Unseen Archive? Most of those  projects are based on movie and TV properties, but we dont have any screens or videos from the gaming versions yet.. 

The people at Sprites INC. ripped some sprites from the Megaman series and found some nice unused stuff in there! Some of the most interesting ones are:

Megaman 9 Skateboard enemy falling sprite:

Megaman ZX – DS debug room:

Megaman 2 unused tiles:

Megaman 7 unused enemies / sprites: