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Cancelled Takeru Space-Sim, Square Enix Vampire Hunter, Doctor Who, Microsoft MMORPG
🕑 Added 2021-01-11 17:23:10 +0000 UTCKeeping up with our flippant queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, we added 4 cancelled games to the Unseen64 archive:
Imperial Force [PC Engine]: cancelled space-combat simulator / strategy adventure that was in development by SystemSoft around 1992 and it would have been published by Takeru (AKA Sur de Wave, mostly known for being the developers of Little Samson and Cocoron for the NES) for PC Engine https://www.unseen64.net/2021/01/11/imperial-force-pcengine-cancelled/
Vampire Hunter [Xbox 360, PS3, PC]: Digital Extremes is a Canadian video game developer founded in 1993, best known for creating Warframe, Dark Sector, The Darkness II and co-creating Epic Games’ Unreal series. Around 2012 the team was working with Square Enix to develop a new action adventure set in a fantasy vampire world, possibly to be published for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC https://www.unseen64.net/2021/01/11/vampire-hunter-squareenix-digitalextremes-cancelled/
Ninth Doctor Who [PC?]: A Doctor Who video game, based-off the science-fiction series of the same name, was being developed by Australian developer IR Gurus Interactive (later rebranded Transmission Games). The game would have coincided with the first series of the revived 2005 tv-show starring Christopher Eccleston as The Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler https://www.unseen64.net/2021/01/11/ninth-doctorwho-2005-videogame-cancelled/
Mythica [PC]: cancelled MMORPG based on Vikings folklore and Norse mythology that was in development by Microsoft Game Studios between 2002 and 2004, planned to be released on PC. At the time most big gaming companies tried to launch their own massive online multiplayer games, as it was quite a lucrative market (at least until they over-saturated it). Mythica boosted impressive graphics for its time, and Microsoft also promised fun gameplay mechanics: https://www.unseen64.net/2021/01/11/mythica-microsoft-mmorpg-cancelled/
