Cancelled Namco Sequel, N-Gage MMORPG, Polish FPS (Patreon)

Keeping up with our humdrum queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, we added 3 cancelled games in the Unseen64 archive:

Aero-Cross [PS3, Xbox 360]: a cancelled sequel to Namco’s classic Metro-Cross, a racing-platform game that was released in arcades in 1985. This new chapter planned PlayStation 3 Network and Xbox 360 Live Arcade was announced in 2011 and it would have been released for the “Namco Generations” series. A playable demo was found on an old PS3 demo-disc and shared online on Archive.org: https://www.unseen64.net/2020/05/10/metro-aero-cross2-cancelled/

Spirits [N-Gage]: a cancelled MMORPG / collectible card game that was in development around 2005 by Jadestone Group for the ill-fated N-Gage portable console / mobile phone. By taking advantage of the device’s mobile network features you could have been able to play against people from all around the world, fighting them and collecting new cards / monsters to use in your team / deck: https://www.unseen64.net/2020/05/09/spirits-jadestone-ngage-cancelled/

They [PS3, Xbox 360, PC]: a cancelled survival mystery-horror FPS that was in development for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 by polish videogame developer Metropolis Software. The team started working on They between 2005 and 2006 and officially announced it at the Game Convention 2007, but CD Projekt acquired the studio in 2008. The majority of the team was then taken over to work on “The Witcher” series and in the end Metropolis were subsequently closed in 2009: https://www.unseen64.net/2020/05/06/they-metropolis-software-cancelled/