Games That Weren't covers cancelled video games and unreleased games across a variety of consoles + home computers. Running since 1999 online + longer offline.
We truly missed out on a great Dreamcast game: Agartha!!!!
Technical innovation, a unique good-and-evil system, Hollow Earth theory, and a mandatory VMU mini-game.
Everything is covered in the most comprehensive article about this game👇
sega-dreamcast-info.com/en/a…
"One Of The Finest Coders I'd Worked With" - Tributes Pour In For Star Citizen, Wetrix & Project Gotham Racing Dev, David Bone Gill timeextension.com/news/2026/…
📗 THE GAMES THAT WEREN'T by @bitmap_books & @fgasking: buff.ly/ewznJ4M
The Games That Weren't aims to lift the lid on these stories and give these unknown titles a chance to shine – even if we weren't able to actually play them as their developers intended
Found this in my archives. It's the source of the "dino.exe" name that #GTA1 inherited (via it's DINO.BAT).
It was listed as "Darrens Dino Game".
Unless this was Attack! I have no idea what this game concept was. This would have been the demo that I drew the Isometric picture for, and the code framework would then be used for the first #GTA Prototype
@gtacommunitysol$GTA
MELT, a lost 1997 PC game featuring Iron Maiden's Eddie, has been recovered! We're releasing a build for the first time, along with source code and an updated version for modern PCs. We also speak to developer Paul Tebbutt. Thanks to Tamaracade for their earlier research.
At long last, Martin Walker lifts the lid on the real reason Back to the Future on the #Commodore64 didn’t turn out quite the way any of us hoped. No rumours, no guesswork — just the full, unfiltered story straight from the man himself.
Coming soon to FREEZE64.com#C64
On this day 20 years ago, the earliest build of Halo 3 we currently have was created. It featured a look at WIP cinematics, below of which is one of them.
piped.video/watch?v=ct9TcGMp…
A really cool find from Discord member gageiro: A custom Mega CD BIOS made especially for Sonic Team's creative director Kazuyuki Hoshino! Check it out in action below!
Download: hiddenpalace.org/SEGA_Mega-C…@KazuyukiHoshino 星野さん、ご自身専用メガCD BIOS、覚えていますか?
With extensive docs from the VGHF's Mark Flitman archives, The Bounty Hunter was a game Atari was concepting with Todd McFarlane (Spawn) in 2004: archive.gamehistory.org/item… (Possible studios to dev it? Irrational, Free Radical, Arkane & Planet Moon!)
A fascinating piece of early Atari 2600 dev history! "City by the Lake" was a 1981 technical demo by Western Technologies, featuring a jet flying over a shimmering city landscape. We take a look at its story and share footage of the surviving demo.
gamesthatwerent.com/2026/09/…