Neowin News Feed for: Canceled

Assassin's Creed game with ex-slave protagonist reportedly canceled due to political climate

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:06:01 +0000

Ubisoft is known for having multiple Assassin's Creed games in development at once, but one ambitious project has reportedly been canceled outright due to the current tense political climate. Read more...

Intel will not hold its Innovation 2024 event in September; will try again in 2025

John Callaham — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:24:01 +0000

Intel has confirmed to media outlets that it will not hold its annual Innovation event this year, which was scheduled for September 24-25. Intel says that it will try again sometime in 2025. Read more...

Remedy cancels co-op multiplayer project to focus on "existing franchises"

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 07 May 2024 10:28:01 +0000

Remedy Entertainment and Tencent have canceled the cooperative multiplayer project that was recently internally rebooted. Codename Kestrel's development resources are being moved to other projects. Read more...

Ubisoft cancels three more unannounced games, delays Skull and Bones once again

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:54:01 +0000

On top of the four it had canceled last year, Ubisoft has revealed that three more unannounced internal gaming projects have received the axe as the company's latest releases underperform. Read more...

Spotify kills off Car Thing just five months after general U.S. launch

Usama Jawad — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:38:02 +0000

Spotify has decided to stop the manufacturing of Car Thing, just five months after its general availability in the U.S. The $89.99 hardware offered a dedicated Spotify streaming solution for your car. Read more...

Meta has reportedly paused development of its Apple Watch rival

Usama Jawad — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:36:01 +0000

Meta has seemingly paused development on its Apple Watch rival. A prototype of the hardware featured one camera on the front and another on the back, but the latter reportedly interfered with sensors. Read more...

Terraria for Google Stadia is back in development

Usama Jawad — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 05:36:01 +0000

After being announced as cancelled earlier this month, Re-Logic has confirmed that Terraria for Stadia is back in development after it managed to get its developer accounts unblocked by Google. Read more...

Discuss: Which abandoned video game franchise do you wish would make a comeback?

Usama Jawad — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 09:34:01 +0000

Video game franchises come and go all the time but some stay dear to us even after they are long gone. Is there any seemingly abandoned series that you wish would make a comeback in the future? Read more...

TwitchCon San Diego has been canceled due to COVID-19

Usman Khan Lodhi — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 20:10:01 +0000

The firm says that the decision has been taken given the social distancing rules that don't permit large gatherings. It hopes to hold some form of the event this year, and that might happen online. Read more...

BlizzCon 2020 canceled, possibly returning early next year

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 26 May 2020 21:54:01 +0000

Due to the current pandemic and following in the footsteps of other events scheduled to take place this year, Activision Blizzard has canceled BlizzCon 2020. It's likely to return "early next year". Read more...

Slush 2020 event will not be organized due to coronavirus

Usman Khan Lodhi — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:00:01 +0000

Amid the coronavirus crisis, innumerable events have been canceled or put on hold indefinitely. Finland's annual startup event Slush announced that it wouldn't be organized this year. Read more...

Facebook cancels San Francisco summit due to coronavirus fears

Usman Khan Lodhi — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 05:26:01 +0000

Facebook canceled its global marketing conference which was expected to take place from March 9 to March 12 in San Fransisco. The event was anticipated to have over 4,000 participants. Read more...

Report claims Surface Andromeda is not dead, just being 'significantly reworked'

Usama Jawad — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:22:01 +0000

A new report has emerged, claiming that Microsoft's Andromeda project is definitely not dead, and that it has just been sent back to the drawing board to be "significantly reworked". Read more...

Petitions to save Surface Andromeda have already begun

Usama Jawad — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 05:52:01 +0000

A petition to save Microsoft's long-rumored and possibly delayed Andromeda "Surface Phone" device has already been started, and has amassed over 3,000 supporters in the last couple of days. Read more...

Motorola reportedly cancels Moto X5; its Chicago engineering team faces layoffs

Gurkaran Singh — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:34:01 +0000

The Chicago-based company has reportedly laid off half of its engineering workforce and canceled the upcoming Moto X5. The company is also be scaling back on Moto mods focusing on the profitable ones. Read more...

Intel winds down on Project Alloy, less than a year after launch

Usama Jawad — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 08:30:01 +0000

Less than a year after Intel announced its Project Alloy initiative to bring AR, MR, and VR to the mainstream, the company has wound down on its ambitious plans, citing lack of partner interest. Read more...

Development on space survival game 'Ion' has ceased

Muhammad Zaid Tariq — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 07:10:01 +0000

Ion was a space survival massively multiplayer online game that was shown off at E3 2015. Not many details about the game were revealed and now it appears that development on it has ceased. Read more...

More images pop up showing off the cancelled Lumia 850 from Microsoft

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:02:01 +0000

The Lumia 850 was cancelled by Microsoft and never (officially) saw the light of day, but that hasn't stopped some fans from getting their hands on a working prototype to show us what could have been. Read more...

Konami confirms 'Silent Hills' has been canceled

Usama Jawad — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:14:01 +0000

Konami has officially announced that its most awaited game "Silent Hills" has been canceled, however, the company will still develop other games in the popular series. Read more...

Nokia has reportedly cancelled its 8-inch Lumia Windows tablet

Andy Weir — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:43:39 +0000

Has the Illusionist vanished from Nokia's plans? A report claims that the company has cancelled its 8.3-inch Windows tablet, which had previously been rumoured to launch in February 2014. Read more...

Few tears shed for canceled Comdex

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:33:48 +0000

It's called a turkey, guys. It usually comes from a grocery store, requires quite a bit of thawing and hurts like heck if you drop it on your foot. The preceding clarification is for the... Read more...

Sam & Max sequel canceled

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 06:44:07 +0000

Sad news came today for fans of the 1993 PC game Sam & Max Hit the Road. LucasArts has canceled its PC sequel, Sam & Max Freelance Police, only a few months before its planned... Read more...

Webby Awards ceremony canceled

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:51:12 +0000

The Webby Awards, the Internet community's biggest annual event, has become a non-event this year. Fears about traveling due to SARS were blamed for the cancellation of the seventh annual ceremony, which was... Read more...

Macworld Expo/Tokyo canceled

Fri, 06 Dec 2002 17:03:18 +0000

IDG World Expo Japan has decided to cancel next year's Macworld Expo/Tokyo show. In an e-mail, parent company IDG blamed the cancellation on a lack of interest from exhibitors. "IDG World Expo... Read more...

The Real Reason Intel Canceled the 2GHz Server Xeon

Steven Parker — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 15:18:23 +0000

He he what a surpise!!! :paranoid: :cross: :ponder: Industry sources have revealed that the real reason behind Intel's recently canceled 2GHz Xeon server chip was not due to technical issues, but solely attributable... Read more...

SimsVille Canceled

Thu, 20 Sep 2001 22:38:05 +0000

This afternoon, SimsVille was canceled. This was Maxis' upcoming game that blends life simulation with city management. SimsVille aimed to take The Sims players out of their homes and give them the ability... Read more...