They obviously felt it was a turkey and / or still needed too much work to get it to market, so they killed it. No suprise really because according to anyone I’ve spoken to, Eight Days has been a nightmare project.

Whizzo: haha. I’d forgotten about that.

Driving around an HD London would have been nice by itself let alone going nuts and having some police chases through the city.

And all we’d seen of Eight Days was a target render. In what… two years? Three?

Wield that scythe! Wield it! Hack hack hack.

I do wonder how far along they’d gotten, though? They’d both apparently been “in developement” for chuffing ages.

It could be a case that the tech which powered the game will be used for another game. As I understand it, pre-production work would be all about design documents and game engines, so it could be a case that they liked the tech, but didn’t think the game itself would stand up.

Either way, it must be gutting for the team who has presumably worked on it since the ’05 presentation to be told thanks, but no thanks.

Clearly there’s some fairly serious re-structuring of resources going on at SCE, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Insomniac’s decision to expand to another studio, was helped along by Sony.

Insomniac and Naughty Dog have pretty much carried Sony’s first party output thus far, so coupled with Phil Harrisons’ recent departure, it’s really not surprising that they’re shaking the tree as it were.

The Getaway games were never really well received though.

Sony can ill afford another Lair, so I imagine they’re shaking things up to ensure that they’re not spread too thinly, and the games that are being released are fully polished.

I’m very curious about Infamous, and I’m hoping to hear a lot more about it at E3. At present, it just blends into Prototype, and I’d like to see what Suckerpunch have planned for Infamous to really distinguish it.