10 Video Games You Didn't Realise Just Got Cancelled
The Knights of the Old Republic remake is as good as dead.
Video games development is an unfathomably complex business, and we as players can't even begin to comprehend the sheer number of cancelled projects we never end up hearing about.
But barely a week goes by without a high-profile, much whispered-about project getting the chop, whether by way of a formal announcement or a hurried mumble filtered through reliable industry insiders.
The reasons for a game's cancellation can be myriad - perhaps it's a horribly mismanaged project that hasn't met developmental milestones, or a new business regime has decided to toss out work greenlit by the old one.
Whatever the reason, these video games have all been given the chop formally or informally, and given the low-flying nature of the announcements, you couldn't be blamed for missing all of them.
It's always sad to see a promising, anticipated game hit the skids, but in an industry as secretive as video games, the reasons are often more complex and multi-faceted than players can reasonably appreciate.
All the same, these games have been put on the shelf in one way or another, and will likely never be coming out...
10. Splinter Cell: Hunters
There have been rumours of a new Splinter Cell game being in the works for years and years at this point, what with the series' last entry being Splinter Cell: Blacklist an entire decade ago.
Even with Ubisoft confirming that a remake of the original Splinter Cell was in development back in late 2021, there have been rumblings of other projects, including possible live-service endeavours.
And this past April, the latter was finally confirmed for sure, when an apparent Ubisoft play-tester took to 4Chan to reveal that the company had spent several years working on a Splinter Cell battle royale game by the name of Splinter Cell: Hunters.
Hunters was said to be a 28-player PvPvE game where teams of two would fight to both eliminate and extract targets while fending off other teams.
According to the leaker the game was mere weeks away from being announced when Ubisoft decided to can it for reasons unknown, which considering how interesting it sounds is quite the damn shame.