10 Beloved Gaming Franchises That Just Disappeared

4. Carmageddon

You thought last week's Game of Thrones was too violent? Hey, the '90s called; they want their outrage back. Courting controversy and conservative umbrage way before it was cool, the frankly bonkers Carmageddon took the concept of Death Race 2000 and pushed it off a cliff, making the aim of the motor-racing game less about beating other drivers to the finish line and more about smearing as many pedestrians and fellow racers across the tarmac as possible. Naturally, gamers loved it, Carmageddon sold around two million copies according to developer Stainless games and preceded two sequels; Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now and Carmageddon TDR 2000. Unfortunately, though, that was it for over a decade, as Stainless didn't own the rights to their game and publisher SCi faffed around with the franchise in development until 2011, when Stainless obtained the rights and announced the return of Carmageddon in the form of a Kickstarter-funded series reboot. That game, Carmageddon: Reincarnation, means that this story has a happy ending, as it was made available on Steam for early access in March 2014, fourteen years after the last instalment. Let's hope it's not quite as long until the next one...