Konami s Cancelled Castlevania Game For Dreamcast Has Been Resurrected
There have been a lot of promising games cancelled over the years, fortunately - more of them seem to be returning from the dead. Already this year,
GoldenEye 007 XBLA and
Castlevania Resurrection has surfaced.
This title was originally announced by Konami in 1999 and was intended to be a Sega Dreamcast release until it was delayed and then cancelled around the year 2000. It s believed the Dreamcast s struggles and the PlayStation 2 s success were contributing factors.
Before it was cancelled, it was shown off to the press and now somehow, out of nowhere, a video of the game being played has been uploaded to YouTube, titled Castlevania Resurrection exists . It s appears to be an early build of the game (pre-dating 1999) and allowed the developer to transport the character to many different areas.
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Article by John Linneman, Staff Writer, Digital Foundry 7 March 2021
Rewind to the turn of the century - the next generation of console gaming was in its infancy with the arrival of Sega Dreamcast and the promise of PlayStation 2, but Rare was busy finishing up its latest Nintendo 64 projects. Perfect Dark was set to arrive that summer after multiple delays, Conker s Bad Fur Day would arrive the following year, but it was Dinosaur Planet that would perhaps be the most exciting title of the lot.
Magazine articles teased a multi-character, Zelda-style action adventure set in a beautiful dino-inhabited world. It was shaping up to become one of the largest games Rare had ever produced but before it reached the finish line, the game was cancelled and development shifted to the Nintendo GameCube, where it became Star
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Rare s Cancelled N64 Project Dinosaur Planet Originally Starred The Cute Tiger From Diddy Kong Racing
Last weekend, Rare s cancelled Nintendo 64 project
Dinosaur Planet was leaked online. It surprised many, including Kevin Bayliss - a former Rare employee who now works at Playtonic Games.
With all the memories flooding back, in his words over on VGC, Kev has now revealed how the original star of the game was actually intended to be Timber the Tiger from
Diddy Kong Racing. Timber was also meant to be the face of
R.C. Pro-Am 64 (before it was changed to DKR). After finishing work on Diddy Kong Racing in 1998, I started work on a project that was to become a 3D adventure game based in a fantasy style world, similar to that of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time but in a prehistoric environment.
Footage Of The Cancelled Nintendo DS Game Black & White Surfaces Online
Following on from the surprise leak of
Dinosaur Planet last weekend, footage of the cancelled Nintendo DS project
Black & White has now surfaced online.
If the name doesn t ring a bell, this is a handheld entry of the god video game series created by the famous video game designer Peter Molyneux (
Populous,
Theme Park) and his studio Lionhead, which would have been published by EA.
According to the source, a company called Full Fat was tasked with the handheld release known as
Black & White Creatures. It remains unclear exactly why the project was scrapped, But take a look at what could have been (above), courtesy of the YouTube channel PtoPOnline: