From VG247: "During development for Alpha Protocol, work also began on Aliens: Crucible, a cancelled RPG from developer Obsidian.
“Aliens: Crucible was really sad to see cancelled, but I don’t blame Sega for it,” writer Chris Avellone told VG247 during Reboot Develop. “It would be like – this is going to be really rough comparison – basically Mass Effect but more terrifying."
With so much in video games having blossomed out of the first two Alien films, one can argue that the franchise belongs in games more so even than Star Wars. However, Warhammer 40k—a British miniatures game!—has more presence as a name in games. What follows is a collection of better ideas than simply letting the Alien property linger without new releases, as has been the case since 2014.
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Last week, Volition unleashed a fully playable prototype of Saint’s Row: Undercover, a former PSP game that was cancelled some time ago. That got me thinking, since there’s been a butt ton of games that have been cancelled in the past, could there be other titles released in a similar fashion?
Footage recently landed online of a never-published South Park game from Buzz Monkey Software that would have been released around 2006, reminding the gaming world that for every title that does see widespread distribution, there's a game that landed in development hell and got canceled. These six games were all killed for differing reasons, but their loss has left an unmistakable scar on the gaming landscape, leading us to wonder what might have been if the business worked just a little bit differently.
And we couldn’t get this but we sure got Colonial Marines because...?