The game P.T. was a playable teaser for an upcoming Silent Hills game that became very popular very quickly. When the Silent Hills game was cancelled the demo went with it, much to the horror of fans. So when a developer decided to develop a ‘spiritual successor’ to the undeveloped game there was certainly interest.

Developer Lilith was originally running a Kickstarter to fund the game, but later cancelled it in favour of a publishing deal with Team17. However, seems that now the game has gone the way of the game that inspired it – it’s dead.

Hi all. Sadly Allison Road had to be cancelled. Statement to come in the next few days. Thx for all your support and very sad it came 2 this

— Allison Road (@AllisonRoad_HQ) June 5, 2016

The game was announced just over a year ago in May 2015 and was immediately billed as a successful successor to the playable demo P.T. Originally the Kickstarter would have funded the game, but when UK publisher Team17 came in to pick up publishing rights for the game, Lilith claimed that it would offer the developer creative freedom and security.

“Working with Team17 will give us the chance to make our game unhindered creatively, but at the same time will give us the resources, support and experience that only a 25 year old studio can give,” the studio said at the time. “For us it’s an incredible opportunity to be part of a label that looks after not only such a massive gaming franchise, but also supports developers like Playtonic, Mouldy Toof and many others.”

A statement is to follow soon, but right now speculation about the game’s end is being assumed to be down to a lack of funds to finish the game; something that kills off many indie games. If Team17 pulled out it could have spelt the end of Allison Road.

Until the statement is released though, all we can do is guess.

Before the EA Star Wars Battlefront that released recently was a project, there were rumours that a sequel to the last two Battlefront games made by Free Radical was in the works. LucasArts denied that it existed when the DICE version was given the go ahead, but some fans decided that if the supposed game would never see light of day through EA’s hands, they’d do it themselves.

The fan-project tilted “Galaxy in Turmoil” has been in development at Russian outfit Frontwire Studios, and has been freely billed as the remake of the Battlefront III that never was. They plan to offer the game for free, but there’s still some tricky hot water the studio could get themselves into with Disney over the fan-game. However, in an odd turn of events Valve have already agreed to distribute the game on their digital Steam store.

“It is with great pleasure that as of today I am able to officially announce that Frontwire Studios has officially signed a distribution deal with Steam/Valve for the game Galaxy in Turmoil,” revealed Frontwire president Tony Romanelli. “By Steam agreeing to ship Galaxy in Turmoil we are not only adding more validation and awareness to the project by opening up the game to a whole new audience, we’re also cementing Frontwire Studios’ reputation as an up and coming developer with the opportunity to now publish our games on Steam in the future. This will help us ultimately achieve our goal of making the games that you, the community want.”

While admitting he had “mild concerns” over Disney moving to halt the project, he seems pleased that Valve has decided as they have saying that it means that Valve “clearly lacks the same concern.” He has encouraged others to take a chance on the project by taking a leaf from Valve’s book.

“Take a deep breath and just take a chance on our project. In the end, it’ll pay off for everyone involved. Especially the community.”

It remains to be seen of course if Galaxy in Turmoil will make it to the Steam Store, as the threat of Disney forcing the project’s halt is still a very real possibility at this stage.

Steam Spy is a site of statistics. Using the publicly viewable stats provided by Steam, it’s often used as a judge by many of how well roughly games are doing. It tracks the number of owners of a game, when the owners bought the game and so on. However it’s not perfect.

Because of this, publisher company Paradox Interactive have asked Steam Spy to remove the data on their games from the site. The owner of the site, Sergey Galyonkin, has complied saying that Paradox has a right to ask for the data to come down, even if he doesn’t think it’s any danger to the company.

For their part, Paradox’s reasons for these actions were explained on Twitter through the account of one Shams Jorjani, a business guy for the company.

@AllGamesChanelT SS numbers are wildly off at times. We’d rather share correct data through ISFE https://t.co/7OqxyX5eZW instead.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) June 2, 2016

It’s a fair judgement and Jorjani went on to say that he has seen many business plans from devs that were based on inaccurate information gained from Steam Spy, saying that the assumption made is “Owners x full price = tons of money – please give us $$$” on their part. Galyonkin responded with a tweet asking if that data should really be removed just because some people didn’t know how to read it properly.

Either way, while Paradox won’t be the first to ask for the removal of their games’ data, they are the first major publisher to ask to have it taken down. It’s unclear if others might try as well if they’ve things to hide, but less data makes a resource like Steam Spy a lot less useful.

Dead Island 2’s had quite the journey already through development, and it’s still not even close to release. Originally announced a few years ago, it was in the hands of Yager Development for a while. That was until publishers of the game Deep Silver announced that there’d been a split between the two companies citing that “respective visions of the project fell out of alignment”. Earlier this year we were told that Sumo Digital were now looking after the game, but with its history you can see why yesterday’s disappearance of the game’s Steam Listing caused more than a few people to question if the game was still in development.

No worries though, Deep Silver has assured fans that this does not mean a game cancellation. When asked about the disappearance Deep Silver said “Dead Island 2 is in development with Sumo Digital. Once we have new details to share, we will do so.” It doesn’t tell us a lot, but it does seem that the game is not dead.

The vanishing Steam listing was first noticed by NeoGAF yesterday and alongside the speculation of cancellation some people theorised that the listing was only down while Deep Silver and Sumo revised it to reflect the new direction Sumo Digital will be taking the game. Not that we know much about that new direction yet.

With E3 coming up, maybe we’ll see the new details of the game there.