U64 Website is Back, Cancelled Faux-AI Adventure, Gritty FPS (Patreon)

As we wrote the last week, we had some issues with the Unseen64 site database and were not able to upload new articles / media. We spent some hours on the problem and restored an old backup, so for now the site is back and seems to work. Our technical support told us after 13 years using Wordpress and many different plugins our database went crazy. We'll probably have to move all the articles / media to a clean WP installation ASAP, but we'll have to plan how to do it.

In the meantime articles are back on the website! Keeping up with our spiky queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, we added 2 cancelled games to the Unseen64 archive:

A Ghost in the Machine [PC]: cancelled text / visual adventure game that was in development in the mid ‘90s by Presage Software, planned to be published by Dreamworks Interactive in collaboration with Steven Spielberg. The game was quite ambitious for its time, mixing a faux operating system, AI-dialogues, free-form investigation and multi-paths storyline. You could imagine its gameplay as a mix between Hypnospace Outlaw and Her Story: by using this “game software” players would be able to find emails, photos, videos and chat with the AI, to unveil the plot: https://www.unseen64.net/2021/02/10/ghost-machine-presage-software-cancelled/

Rage Hard [PC]: First Person Shooter in development from 2002 to possibly 2007, planned to be released on MAC first, then possibly also on Windows PCs. German company Titan Computer GbR were the main driving force behind the game, although they seemed to have been joined later by the fellow german DnS Development. Rage Hard’s basic concept was something commonly seen around the time of its development: a multiplayer-focused shooter set in a gritty urban environment, backed up by a large arsenal of weapons and a tactical coat of paint. However, it wanted to set itself apart from the competition by not having the central conflict be what Titan saw as the generic Military good guys vs. Terrorist bad guys, and instead creating a world in which the playable characters all belonged to villainous factions: https://www.unseen64.net/2021/02/10/rage-hard-pcmac-cancelled/

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