Over the last few years, there's been a worrying trend of in-development video games being canceled. In recent months, the legendary Yoko Taro revealed he'd had multiple "weird" projects canned, reports suggested that Ubisoft canceled a new Splinter Cell game in favor of XDefiant, and both Halo and Lord of the Rings MMOs were shelved by Microsoft and Amazon, respectively.
As a consumer, it's never nice to see, but for those working in the canceled games, it often leads to devastation.
One of this year's biggest, most shocking cancellations came from Microsoft and The Initiative, who in June confirmed that the long-in-the-works Perfect Dark reboot wouldn't see the light of day. Six months after its cancellation, we spoke to Joanna Dark actress, Alix Wilton Regan (also Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider revival), who shed light on just how horrific the ordeal was.
"I was as shocked, surprised, and devastated as everyone else was when the funding was pulled, and the studio was closed," Wilton-Regan tells me. "I did not see it coming. I was absolutely blindsided when the project was defunded." The actress, known for her roles in Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Cyberpunk...
