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Mutant Storm Empire - Cancelled?

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Mutant Storm Empire was/is one of my most anticipated upcoming Xbox Live Arcade titles by far.

I absolutely loved the original, and while Super Stardust HD has me ticking over at the moment, I'm still absolutely dying for Mutant Storm Empire to appear.

But we've heard absolutely nothing for ages. And it wasn't even shown in the XBLA montage at E3.

Is it cancelled? Anyone know anything?
 
It was recently given a rating by ESRB (along with Fatal Fury Special, Tempest & Streets of Rage 2) so it should be released soon.

Fatal Fury Special

This Neo-Geo Classic Fighting game quickly became tops in many fighting genre fans lists, when it was rumored around E3 last year. The game that looked like it was going to be lost in a sea of red tape around the old 50MB limit, will be a welcome addition to almost everyone.

Tempest

Back in November, when Atari announced that it would be publishing titles for the XBLA service, they announced what the first six game would be. Tempest will be the second of these titles (behind Millipede/Centipede). As someone who has never played this game, I'll be interested to see how it is, as well as what influences it has on Jeff Minter's Space Giraffe.

Mutant Storm Empire

The winner of the longest time between being announced (we knew about this title before the 360 launched) is finally going to be available for us to play. Taking the existing formula adding scrolling levels, bosses, and online multiplayer, sure sounds like a winning idea to me.


Streets of Rage 2

After the successful launch of the TMNT arcade game, their was little doubt that we'd end up seeing more and more side scrolling beat 'em ups coming to the service. Sega has heard the fans calls and will be releasing Streets of Rage 2 "soon". What makes this even more interesting is that the title has already been released on the Wii Virtual Console, in the usual unaltered manner. For those of you who own both systems, what reason (other than it's already out) would you have in getting the VC edition?
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http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/
I found PomPom on here; they're still actively trading. If you like you can pay about $4 to see any papers they have on them (possibly tax returns etc., I'm not sure; if tax returns were listed you would be able to see if they have been spending on Mutant Storm Empire.) Neither the WhoIs on their home page or their registered office has a phone number listed and directory enquiries draws a blank. Searching google maps for either address doesn't bear fruit either. Email to both of their accounts hasn't been responded to when questioning wether MSE is still coming out.
Things weren't looking good, and then the ESRB rated the game and I was expecting it to be the surprise E3 release. Now I don't know :S
 
Yea, the ESRB rating has been the only blip on the radar since last year, other then that tyhe game exists in the same limbo as Hoopworld.
 
Shard said:
Yea, the ESRB rating has been the only blip on the radar since last year, other then that tyhe game exists in the same limbo as Hoopworld.
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Not really, HoopWorld was given a reason for the delay (multiplayer I think) and it's probably been delayed even longer now that the size limit went up to 150MB.
element said:
it's still coming out...
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Do you have evidence, a gut feeling or an unsourcable but solid way of knowing?
 
a Master Ninja said:
I'm glad I'm not the only one waiting for Mutant Storm Empire.
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Hell the only reason why I didn't break down and buy the original was because the sequel sounded more exciting.
 
Bowen_B said:
Not really, HoopWorld was given a reason for the delay (multiplayer I think) and it's probably been delayed even longer now that the size limit went up to 150MB.
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I am aware of the reason for the delay of Hoopworld, the entire game was noted to be in the process of being reworked back in March and then dropped off the face of the planet. As far as taking advantage of the size increase, well, it is a possibility but far from confirmed.
 
Hitler Stole My Potato said:
Also, what's the point of Space Giraffe when Tempest is coming out?
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What's the point of Pac Man CE when Ms. Pac Man already came out.
What's the point of Ms. Pac Man when Pac Man already came out.

Shard said:
I am aware of the reason for the delay of Hoopworld, the entire game was noted to be in the process of being reworked back in March and then dropped off the face of the planet. As far as taking advantage of the size increase, well, it is a possibility but far from confirmed.
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I was just noting that with HoopWorld they announced there would be a delay and that the game was going back to the lab; with MSE it looked done and then missed its release date with nothing being said.
 
What the the hell is the point of Crystal Quest when Mutant Strom Reloaded, Geometry Wars, and Robotron 2084 exist?
 
Shard said:
What the the hell is the point of Crystal Quest when Mutant Strom Reloaded, Geometry Wars, and Robotron 2084 exist?
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What's the point of Hyper Street Fighter II Turbo HD when Hyper Street Fighter II Turbo is already out on the service? They're not even gonna change the gameplay at all!
 
Bowen_B said:
What's the point of Hyper Street Fighter II Turbo HD when Hyper Street Fighter II Turbo is already out on the service? They're not even gonna change the gameplay at all!
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Well, first off I believe it is Super Street Fighter II Turbo and I think the point is to bring the came into the modern era without breaking the game.
 
this was the first thing i bought on Live arcade

i was in the top 100 on tally mode for a long ass time. now i'm down in the 2000's, and just out of the top 1000 in adventure mode. i played the **** out of the game when i first got my 360 cause i didnt want any of the launch games and Oblivion had been pushed back to March. it's the only game i have where i'm at the top of my friends leaderboard :lol

my frothing demand for the sequel is large
 
i never spent much time with the original, but this looks cool from the preview footage. i'd forgotten it existed -- i don't know why release dates for xbla games are so shifty
 
If you genuinely don't know what's up with a game, it's a bad idea to start a thread with the word "cancelled" in the title.
 
Speevy said:
If you genuinely don't know what's up with a game, it's a bad idea to start a thread with the word "cancelled" in the title.
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That's what the question mark on the end is for.

I too was getting worried about this game, I sent an email a few months ago and received nothing not even an automated response. The ESRB rating gives me hope, but it's kind of weird we haven't seen anything on this game for months.
 
Label said:
Space Giraffe is easilly my most anticipated XBLA title any clue when thats comming out? ;)
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Sometime over the summer, Jeff Minter wrote on his blog this week that the game is in "final-final certification" ands was looking forward to a vacation.

To answer Dhrone's question, XBLA releases are they way they are because Microsoft for the most part are to the fact that Microsoft got burned on such information early on in the systems life, shit kept getting delayed.
 
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