Cancelled Blizzard Samurai RPG, Men in Black Strategy Game, Warren Spector FPAdventure (Patreon)

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

Raiko [PC]: cancelled action RPG that was in development by Flextech between 1996 and 1998, planned to be published by Blizzard Entertainment for PC. The game was conceived as a “3D Diablo with samurai”. At the time Raiko was not officially announced by Blizzard, but its name was later shown in a list of cancelled games they talked about at DICE 2008: https://www.unseen64.net/2020/12/14/raiko-blizzard-flextech-cancelled/

Blue Vault [PC]: cancelled sci-fi strategy game similar to Syndicate / X-Com, that was in development in 2004 by Elixir Studios, the team lead by Demis Hassabis, a skilled programmer who co-created Theme Park and worked with Peter Molyneux during their Bullfrog and Lionhead days. Players would take the role of a secret team of agents with the mission of stopping aliens from invading our planet, while hiding their existence from the population: https://www.unseen64.net/2020/12/14/bluevault-elixir-studios-cancelled/

Alien Commander [PC]: cancelled first person sci-fi adventure set in the Wing Commander universe, proposed by Warren Spector to Origin Systems while he was working at Looking Glass Studios. The team already developed Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss and UUII: Labyrinth of Worlds for Origin: now they wanted to work on something different than classic fantasy RPG. While Alien Commander was canned quite early, some of its ideas were merged into another game titled “Citadel” to create a different project known as “System Shock”: https://www.unseen64.net/2020/12/14/alien-commander-spector-cancelled/