10 Video Games Studios Were IDIOTS To Cancel
3. Rockstar's Agent
Although there's never been any official cancellation of Rockstar's Agent, the planned stealth adventure is all but completely dead.
First announced in June 2009, Agent was set to be Rockstar's take on a spy adventure in the 1970s during the Cold War. It was to immerse players in the "world of counter-intelligence, espionage and political assassinations".
At the time, Sam Houser of Rockstar was all-in on the project, believing it could be as successful as Grand Theft Auto, and that players might get to play it exclusively on PS3 as early as 2010.
In the years that followed, complete radio silence happened. Agent was never mentioned by anyone, apart from those who remembered its initial reveal and wondered what had happened to it.
When the PS4 released, Rockstar renewed their IP rights to the trademark of Agent, and there was some belief it would launch on PS4. Now, several years later, it's still nowhere to be seen.
As we mentioned previously, there's been no formal cancellation announcement, but Rockstar quietely let their IP registration expire in 2018, meaning they've likely completely moved on from the Agent project in favour of games such as Grand Theft Auto 6, Red Dead Redemption 3 and probably Table Tennis: The Next Generation with laser balls. Ok, maybe not the last one.