Danish developers Deadline Games were closed down just as they finished work on the downloadable Watchmen episodes. Gamereactor interviewed Soren Lund just prior to the official closure to talk about the second episode of Watchmen: The End is Nigh, Faith and a .45 and the general state of the industry.
Raymond Porreca of Entertainment Buddha writes: "Below are five of the best looking video games ever to be cancelled. Between studio closings and budgetary cutbacks, these titles were cut down before the could ever be developed fully, leaving those who read about them or watched early gameplay trailers to forever think of what could have been."
One of the worst moves by square, what the should have done is brought that team in officially and have them continue to make chrono Resurrection.
Warner Brother's DC Entertainment has been known for putting out (mostly) consistent content for years, and that includes forays into video games. Given that DC focuses a lot more on their solo characters, particularly Batman, Superman and Green Lantern, than Marvel does, its no wonder that DC has had an easier time adapting their IP's to other trans-media proprieties. While Marvel's team movie effort The Avengers has proven wildly successful, DC's Dark Knight trilogy, recent Man of Steel film and the entire animated universe helmed by DC animation veteran Bruce Timm has defined an era of superhero cartoons and direct-to-dvd animated features.
Man, DC Comics hasn't had great luck with games, has it? They had to resort to a few pretty average games to fill out the list.
An opinion piece looking at 16 cancelled games and the author attributes his opinion to as whether he believes they will be revived in the foreseeable future.
Gotta hate cancelled games but sometimes it is actually quite okay, if a game is shit etc.
