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Smite
Smite (2014)
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Attachment The Hindu goddess Kali's design was initially more revealing, however during the game's beta, her appearance was changed to have her more clothed, in addition to new voice lines and updated abilities.

It's thought that her redesign was due to receiving backlash from practicing Hindus, who also objected to her inclusion. However, it's also possible this was done due to working with Chinese publisher Tencent to make the game more family friendly.
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Censorship, Development, Suggested, Theory, Update Difference, Version Difference
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month March 16, 2021
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Lust for Darkness
Lust for Darkness (2018)
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Attachment Shortly after its release onto the Nintendo Switch, the game was removed from sale from the North American Nintendo eShop due to containing content deemed beyond acceptable for the ESRB rating it was given. It was re-released on March 20th, 2020 as Lust for Darkness: Dawn Edition with the explicit content and sexual imagery toned down. The European release however remained unaltered with the "Dawn Edition" also added to the European Nintendo eShop.
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Censorship, Console Difference, Development, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month February 27, 2021
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Gladiator
Gladiator (1986)
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The ZX Spectrum port (released as Great Gurianos on all home computer platforms) was intentionally unbeatable with the final boss made invincible. According to the port's programmer, David Perry, this was done due to there being no memory left in the game to include an ending.
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Development, General, Glitch
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month December 26, 2020
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Franchise: Doctor Who
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Attachment A Doctor Who video game by Australian studio IR Gurus (later Transmission games) was in development but canceled due to complications. The game was to coincide with the first series of the revived show starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper. Development went for half a year and funded through substantial government subsidies. According to Paul Callaghan who worked at the studio, a possible plot he conceived was that airborne nanobots released by aliens were modifying the human race which included the Doctor's companion Rose Tyler, enabling her to have "...some cool alien powers!"

However, according to then BBC Worldwide head of communications Andy Widger, there were no intentions of releasing the game as it was just "an interactive demo for internal evaluation."
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Cancelled Release, Development
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month December 26, 2020
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Wonder Project J2: Corlo no Mori no Josette
Wonder Project J2: Corlo no Mori no Josette (1996)
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Attachment A port for the PlayStation was reportedly in development though never released. It was aimed for release in late 1997 and would've featured animated sequences that wouldn't have been possible for the Nintendo 64 version due to the cartridge's memory space limitations.
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Cancelled Release, Console Difference, Development, Version Difference
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month December 23, 2020
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
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Jun Senoue, famous for being a lead music composer for Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, said he was insipired to write and arrange Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's "Mega Man 4 Medley" in the style of a Sonic Series composition after he came across a Sonic and Mega Man crossover comic that sparked his imagination. He chose to center his arrangement on the 4th Mega Man game because of fond memories that he had of playing the game at university.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Music, Real Life
person PirateGoofy calendar_month December 19, 2020
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Steep
Steep (2016)
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A Nintendo Switch version of the game was planned and even worked on, but, according to the Steep twitter account, this Switch release was canceled in order for the development team to focus on creating more content for the other console versions of the game.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Early Idea
person PirateGoofy calendar_month November 19, 2020
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The Sims Bustin' Out
The Sims Bustin' Out (2003)
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The Game Boy Advance version was originally intended to be a straight port of the original Sims game for PC, however this wasn't possible as the simulation gameplay of the Sims didn't translate well to the hardware. Instead, inspired by the first console version of The Sims where players could follow their Sim's story in a more personal way, the game's producer J.C. Connors pitched to EA what would become Bustin' Out on the Game Boy Advance.
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Development, Early Idea
person KnowledgeBase calendar_month November 19, 2020
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Dino Crisis
Dino Crisis (1999)
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According to the Capcom team in the game's official Japanese guide book, they were asked about the meaning behind the name of Ibis island, and they responded:

"The name of the ibis bird in Japanese is “toki” (a homonym for time), and we liked how that word resonated with the game’s themes of “extinction” and “time”… we could probably come up with a number of different explanations for the name, but basically we liked those associations. Also, considering the name of “Raccoon City” from Resident Evil, maybe there’s a lot of animal lovers on the team too."
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month November 2, 2020
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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019)
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The game's features were inspired by The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker as well as the Metroid and Dark Souls series.
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Development, Inspiration
person GamerBen144 calendar_month November 2, 2020
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Immortals Fenyx Rising
Immortals Fenyx Rising (2020)
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Attachment The game was originally called "Gods and Monsters" when it was shown off at E3 2019, however, Ubisoft ran into some trouble with the Monster Energy Drink company who not only claimed that the original title of the game infringed upon their trademark, but also claimed that the game's title would cause brand confusion. Ubisoft thought this was ridiculous but ended up relenting anyway and changing their project's title to the current one.
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Censorship, Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person PirateGoofy calendar_month October 27, 2020
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Shenmue
Shenmue (1999)
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The "Orphaned kitten" was based on game's interior designer Manabu Takimoto's cat "Sasuke". During development, a game designer came by to Manabu's desk and ask to borrow the picture of "Sasuke" when he was a kitten.

Game's producer Yu Suzuki stated, "Ah, I remember that. We called him Sasuke during the planning phase too. We knew it had been modeled after Takimoto’s cat, so we wanted to leave the name as Sasuke, as a remnant of that. (laughs) But eventually someone was like, “Who named this cat Sasuke?!” and we had to change it. (laughs)". In the final version of the game, the "Orphaned kitten's" gender is now female, instead.

In the game's cutscene, "Ryo Hazuki" and "Megumi Mishima" talk about naming the "Orphaned kitten". There's an option to select Manabu's cat's name "Sasuke", if players choose "Sasuke", Ryo will say "So she can grow up to be big and strong like a ninja", but Megumi will not like it, because it's a boy's name. This name cannot be used, as it will result her name to be defaulted as Mimi.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month October 26, 2020
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Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (1996)
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The game's producer and director Shigeru Miyamoto was asked if he had any references, or anything else he relied on when making all of Mario’s various animations. He responded:

"We tried out a lot of different things using motion capture, but ultimately we ended up doing it all by hand. We created a “skeleton” for Mario that was the basis of his movement."
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person ProtoSnake calendar_month September 2, 2020
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Franchise: Pokémon
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Lugia was initially created as a plot device for, and only meant to be seen in, the Second Pokemon movie, The Power of One (aka Pokémon the Movie 2000). In fact, his designer, Pokemon Anime writer Takeshi Shudo said he was surprised to see Lugia in the games at all. Game Freak seemed to love the creature so much they not only made him canon, but also made him the mascot of Pokémon Silver.
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Development, Early Idea, General, Real Life
person PirateGoofy calendar_month September 2, 2020
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Punch-Out!!
Punch-Out!! (1984)
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The original arcade release of Punch-Out!! used two screens at once because Nintendo bought too many arcade monitors after Donkey Kong became a success and with its sales declining, they needed to develop an arcade game to help them get rid of the surplus monitors.
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Development, General, Inspiration, Real Life
person raidramon0 calendar_month September 1, 2020
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Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001)
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There are three unused levels still present within the game; an Airship Level, an unfinished version of Fahrenheit Frenzy, and a Warp Room that was presented at E3 2001. Out of the three, the Airship level is the most finished.

The E3 Warp Room is an area containing 5 warp pads, all of which have no collision and will not warp the player anywhere. Interestingly, each warp pad has a hologram of their respective levels overlaid on the pads. This feature isn’t used anywhere in the final game.

The Airship level and the E3 Warp Room can be accessed through Action Replay codes on the North American GameCube versions.
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Development, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person ShyanVixen calendar_month September 1, 2020
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Sonic Forces
Sonic Forces (2017)
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In the PC version, there are several unused animations stored in the game’s files. These include animations carried over from Sonic Generations for Classic Sonic, a goal post animation from Generations, a "seek" motion for The Egg Pawns, a damage animation for Silver, early boss fight animations for Metal Sonic, and hand motions for The Golems from Capital City.
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Development, Unused Content
person ShyanVixen calendar_month September 1, 2020
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Tekken 3
Tekken 3 (1997)
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Jun was planned to be added into the arcade version of the game, but was later cut some time during development. Her data still exists within the game’s code and can be accessed using MAME cheat files. When added back in, she uses Nina’s character model and Jin’s moveset. Her voice and portrait does exist, but there are assets taken from Tekken 2.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character, Unused Content
person ShyanVixen calendar_month September 1, 2020
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Sonic CD
Sonic CD (1993)
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Game's landscape designer Masato Nishimura stated on Twitter, that Wacky Workbench was originally called 'Crazy Toy Box'. The reason for this change was unknown.
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Development, Early Idea
person ProtoSnake calendar_month September 1, 2020
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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (2014)
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In international versions, there's a cutscene of removing the bomb from inside of Paz's stomach at the end of the main mission. The Japanese version however adjusts the camera angle so that no blood and gore is shown on screen.
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Censorship, Development, Regional Difference, Version Difference
person ProtoSnake calendar_month September 1, 2020
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