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Banned
Loss or demise of a publisher/developer:
SEGA - Goes third-party and 90% of their game diversity evaporates.
RARE, Ltd - Nintendo -> Microsoft
Konami - Decides that pachinko games are the future.
Complete games that will never be released again or otherwise lost:
Uniracers - Nintendo and Rockstar North (previous DMA Design) created a unicycle racing game for SNES. Pixar sued DMA Design lost the case and now this game will never again see the light of day.
Panzer Dragoon Saga - Lost source code
Star Wars Galaxies - Pre-NGE
Games which never got completed:
Silent Hills - Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro collaborated on a new Silent Hill game. We only ever saw P.T. out of it, which is also unavailable for most.
Half Life 2: Episode Three - Self-explanatory.
What are some others? Are there additional categories?
SEGA - Goes third-party and 90% of their game diversity evaporates.
RARE, Ltd - Nintendo -> Microsoft
Konami - Decides that pachinko games are the future.
Complete games that will never be released again or otherwise lost:
Uniracers - Nintendo and Rockstar North (previous DMA Design) created a unicycle racing game for SNES. Pixar sued DMA Design lost the case and now this game will never again see the light of day.
Panzer Dragoon Saga - Lost source code
Star Wars Galaxies - Pre-NGE
Games which never got completed:
Silent Hills - Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro collaborated on a new Silent Hill game. We only ever saw P.T. out of it, which is also unavailable for most.
Half Life 2: Episode Three - Self-explanatory.
What are some others? Are there additional categories?