Platinum Games Scrubs Web site, Removes Previously Announced Project G.G.

Project G.G., touted as “the highly effective climax to the Hideki Kamiya superhero trilogy,” is likely to be canned. Over the weekend, Platinum Games apparently scrubbed its website, within the course of eradicating any point out of over 10 video games the studio had labored on or have been developing–including Project G.G.

VGC experiences that hyperlinks to earlier Platinum titles like Babylon’s Fall and Madworld nonetheless work, however Project G.G.’s web page simply goes to the overall Platinum web site. Moreover, a blog post for Project G.G. fails to even open. There hasn’t been any official replace in regards to the standing of the sport.

In early 2020, Platinum revealed Project G.G. as the primary sport to be each developed and revealed by the corporate. The title was impressed by Ultraman and confirmed a personality enlarging themselves to struggle towards a Godzilla-like monster, additionally generally known as a kaiju. “We’ll be taking up new dangers that we have by no means needed to assume earlier than as a contracted developer,” mentioned Kamiya on the time.

Nonetheless, Kamiya departed Platinum in October 2023. The sport director beforehand helmed Viewtiful Joe and The Fantastic 101 (the earlier superhero titles), in addition to Satan Could Cry, Bayonetta, and Okami. Talking of which, Okami 2 was introduced at The Sport Awards in December, and Kamiya is returning to direct the action-adventure title for Capcom.

One other former Platinum worker, Jean Pierre Kellams, lamented the Platinum web site alterations on X. Now a lead producer at Epic, Kellams acknowledged that Platinum is “erasing its historical past” with the adjustments and it is “extraordinarily regrettable.”