New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

Microsoft, Others, PC / MAC, Playstation 3 (PS3), Sony, Xbox 360

BloodBath [Cancelled – Xbox 360 / PS3]

U64 Staff & Contributors
16-07-2012
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Update: some years later, the game was released on Steam

BloodBath is an unreleased action game / brawler set in a post-apocalyptic future, that was in development by Freedom Factory Studios for Xbox Live Arcade (Xbox 360) and PSN (Playstation 3). Players would have been able to chose from differents characters and classes, with their own set of combos and special abilities, to fight in combat pits full of deathly traps and hazards all around the world. Single Player, Coop-Mode and Versus Multiplayer were all planned. BloodBath was pitched around to various publishers, but sadly they were not able to find one.

Only some screens from this lost game are archived below, to preserve its existence.

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Playstation, Sony

Pariah [PSX – Cancelled]

Celine
12-07-2012
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Pariah is a cancelled action game that was in development in 1997 by Studio E for the original Playstation. There are not many info about Pariah, apart from a small image in an old magazine and a printed advert. Studio E was working on different titles, but only VMX Racing was released. They also worked on Shadowhawk for the SNES and Zulu for the Playstation.

If you know someone that worked on this game, please let us know!

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Arcade, Others

Star Blade: Operation Blue Planet [Arcade – Cancelled]

yota
07-07-2012
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Star Blade: Operation Blue Planet is a cancelled arcade on-rails shooter that was being developed by Namco. It was supposed to be a sequel of the first Star Blade, originally released in 1991.  A proto of the coin-op was playable at Amusement Machine Show in 2001, but the game got quietly canceled, probably because the cabinet was too expensive.

Star blade cabinet

Star blade image

The cabinet was known as “Over Reality Booster System” (ORBS). Its main feature was a special lens that projected a 180 degree image in order to create a very immersive experience for the player.

Others, WonderSwan

Unknown Shooter [WonderSwan – Cancelled?]

Celine
04-07-2012
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A few months before the release of the original Wonderswan (March 4, 1999) french magazine PlayerOne issue 92 had a small article about the new platform in which it was shown an image about a mysterious vertical shooter. Overall Wonderswan (and future revision) only had an handful of shmups (Space Invader, SD Gundam Operation U.C., Project E-Force, Judgement Silversword,  Cardinal Sins and  Run=Dim) and none of them looks like the game shown before the launch.

If you have more info about this project please let us know!

Additional images from Mega Console issue 54.

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