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Gears of War
Gears of War (2006)
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The game's antagonist General RAAM was a last-minute addition to the game, and due to time constraints and looming production deadlines, his backstory and related context in Act 5 were not included in the original Xbox 360 release of Gears of War, but would be included in all of its future releases.

RAAM was also named after the owner of a local Indian restaurant that Epic Games' staff frequented during development.
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Company: Sega
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Attachment The Sega VR is an unreleased virtual reality headset prototype add-on for the Sega Genesis announced and worked on primarily by Sega of America throughout 1991-1994. Its release was ultimately cancelled due to development issues and younger users inducing motion sickness and severe headaches from use.

Only 5 games were known to have been announced or in development before its cancellation:
•Nuclear Rush: A simulation in which users pilot a hovercraft in a futuristic war.
•Iron Hammer: A shoot 'em up piloting a helicopter gunship inspired by EA's Strike series.
•Matrix Runner: Reportedly a cyberpunk adventure game inspired by Konami's Snatcher.
•Outlaw Racing: A vehicle racing and combat game.
•Virtua Racing: A port of Sega's 1992 Formula One racing arcade game announced as a launch title for the Sega VR. It's unknown how far this port made it into development, but Virtua Racing would later be released for the standalone Sega Genesis in 1994.

In November 2020, the Video Game History Foundation announced that they had successfully emulated the Sega VR's original hardware through HTC Vive with the help of fellow preservation website Gaming Alexandria by using parts of the source code of Nuclear Rush, as well as insight on the hardware and inner-workings of the cancelled games from some of their lead programmers.
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Cancelled Release, Development, Unreleased Hardware
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Wii Sports Resort
Wii Sports Resort (2009)
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Golf was never planned to be in the game. However, Shigeru Miyamoto incorrectly stated in an interview that golf was in the game, so Nintendo felt they had to put it in.

According to Director Takayuki Shimamura: "Right after getting back to Japan, he suddenly said: "You know we're including golf now." Apparently he'd stated in an interview that this time round golf shots would be determined by the backswing, even though at that time a golf game didn't exist in any shape or form!"
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Development, Early Idea
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Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto (1997)
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In an interview with DMA Design creative director Gary Penn in 2011, he revealed that the police in the game turned out the way they did because of a supposed bug where police cars in pursuit tried to ram through the center of the player's car rather than a specific side, causing their driving to become extremely aggressive and seemingly insane. Penn cited this as the point in Grand Theft Auto's development where it stopped being boring to the developers and became more "dramatic", and they started to focus on general play and "being able to piss around" more than the game's missions.
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Development, General, Glitch, Inspiration
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Fallout 3
Fallout 3 (2008)
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Attachment In the Broken Steel DLC, in the cutscene used for when the player character travels on the Presidential metro, the moving train is not a separate entity programmed to move on its own due to limitations with the Gamebryo engine. Instead, when the player goes on the metro, a script is triggered that equips an NPC underneath the train with a glove that turns its right hand invisible and produces the model for the Presidential metro car on top of it appearing like a giant hat. This then triggers an animation of the NPC's model sitting down and gliding along the ground in an arc that simulates the metro riding along the subway tracks.

Rivet City's Abraham Washington is the name of this NPC and is a reference to two former United States Presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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Development, Downloadable Content (DLC), General, Model, Reference, Sprite/Graphical Animation
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Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (2015)
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According to reports, the original script of the game gave the twin protagonists equal screen time, but the developers were asked to alter the script to include Jacob more than Evie.
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Development, Early Idea
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Final Fantasy XIV Online
Final Fantasy XIV Online (2013)
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Attachment The Sage Job introduced in the Endwalker expansion pack had its icon changed prior to the expansion's release due to player feedback. Originally it featured holes in the nouliths represented on the icon, however due to concern from players who suffer from trypophobia, a phobia towards clusters of small holes or bumps, the game's director Naoki Yoshida felt compelled to have the holes filled to ensure all players felt comfortable in the game.
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Company: Koei Tecmo
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Tecmo was developing a MMORPG called BASTARD!! ONLINE, based on the manga Bastard!! by Kazushi Hagiwara. The game was cancelled on December 18, 2009.

According to a press release, the game was canceled due to "current market trends and future prospects".
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Cancelled Release, Development
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Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (2004)
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Attachment Within the debug menu of T.H.U.G 2, there is an option to instantly grant the player a score of five million points.

When this debug function is activated, the text near the bottom of the screen in which the name of a trick performed during a combo would appear, instead the phrase, "You cheat like Kurt" fills in.

References to "Kurt" are a running inside joke within Neversoft, with numerous respective instances occurring in both Tony Hawk's Underground 1 as well as Underground 2 as Easter Eggs.
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Cameo, Debug, Development, Easter Egg, General, Hidden Message, Reference
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Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
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The game was supposed to feature the series' first aircraft missions, but they were removed.
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Development, Early Idea
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Mass Effect: Corsair
Mass Effect: Corsair (TBA)
subdirectory_arrow_right Mass Effect (Franchise)
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A spin-off for the Nintendo DS titled Mass Effect: Corsair was in early development but ultimately cancelled. The reason for its cancellation was due to high production costs for the DS game cartridge, according to ex-BioWare producer Mark Darrah. EA predicted the game would only sell 50,000 units with each cartridge costing $10.50 USD to produce.

Corsair would've been a combination of the games Privateer and Star Control set "in a part of the galaxy that was more piratey and not really fully explored". You'd play as an independent character exploring, collecting cargo, and selling information to the Human alliance. The development team had already started working on the flight controls and overall story before it was cancelled.
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Cancelled Release, Development
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DuckTales: Remastered
DuckTales: Remastered (2013)
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Attachment The game's data contains a different tune of the Himalayas theme, which starts off with a high pitched string instrument, rather then the style used in the final version of the game.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Audio, Unused Content
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Omega Labyrinth Life
Omega Labyrinth Life (2019)
subdirectory_arrow_right Omega Labyrinth Z (Game)
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After the cancellation of Omega Labyrinth Z's North American localization in 2018, work began on Omega Labyrinth Life for the Nintendo Switch. In May 2019, it was announced that D3 was also working on a censored version for the Playstation 4. Despite the PS4 version being cheaper, the Switch version sold three times as many copies.
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Cancelled Release, Censorship, Console Difference, Development, Version Difference
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Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark (2000)
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Attachment In the XBLA version, the N-Bomb weapon is renamed to N-Grenade. This is almost certainly due to the fact that "N-bomb" is often used in reference to someone saying a specific racial slur.
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Censorship, Console Difference, Development, Version Difference
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Kingdom Hearts III
Kingdom Hearts III (2019)
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The team behind Square Enix's Einhander helped develop the expansive Gummi Ship aspect of Kingdom Hearts III. They even included references to Einhander, including an unlockable Gummi Blueprint obtained by scanning a constellation in the Misty Stream area that greatly resembles Einhander' Endymion ship. One of Einhander's bosses, the Schwarzgeist, also cameos as a boss in Kingdom Hearts III, and a remix of Einhander 'Thermosphere' plays when the boss is fought with most Gummi ships. However, if the boss is fought with the Endymion blueprint, then the original PlayStation 1 version of the Thermosphere theme will play.
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Cameo, Development, Easter Egg, General, Inspiration, Music, Reference, Secret
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Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts (2002)
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Attachment Concept art featured in early design documents of the first Kingdom Hearts game shows a world clearly based on Disney-Pixar's Toy Story franchise that, for reasons that have not officially been stated, does not appear in the final release. A Toy Story world would, however, appear in Kingdom Hearts III
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Development, Early Idea, General, Removed Feature, Unused Content
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Fatal Fury
Fatal Fury (1991)
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Joe Higashi’s personality was apparently modeled after the lead character from the Japanese show Abarehacchaku.
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Development, Inspiration
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Franchise: Far East of Eden
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According to Oji Hiroi in Vol. 22 of The Super Famicom magazine, Tengai Makyo originally wasn't going to be a series, and was planned to be a single game. He elaborated, saying:

"The first map I drew for the game was way too huge, though, and we split it into three parts. That left a whole section of the game for China, as well as Kyuushuu and the Ryukyu islands. I realized if we left it at just one game, the player would never learn the origins of the Fire Clan or the Book of WareWare."
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Development, General
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Darkstalkers 3
Darkstalkers 3 (1998)
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According to general producer Noritaka Funamizu in the Gamest magazine interview, he named the third game for Japan “Vampire Savior” because he wanted each title to have a unique name instead of just calling it by it's early name 'Vampire 3'. He added "As for the meaning, I’ll leave that for players to discover."
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Franchise: SaGa
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According to game's illustrator Tomomi Kobayashi in a 1996 Game Hihyou magazine interview, Hawke is based on 'Blood the pirate' from Osamu Tezuka’s Ribbon no Kishi ('Princess Knight').
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Development, General, Inspiration
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