They get announced with massive PR boosts from their publishers. They are sometimes shown in playable form. They even get very close to being on store shelves. Yet for many PC games over the years things sometimes just don't work out. Last week's cancellation of Electronic Arts' Tiberium is just the latest case in a string of titles that have gotten the ax despite a lot of things in their favor.

In this first part of a two part series, we take a look at some of the more well known PC game cancellations that have occurred over the past several years. We will see games that have stopped development even though they have had huge franchises behind them. Other games got cancelled because they were too ambitious in scope. Some shut down because their publisher had financial problems. In our upcoming second part of our article we will focus our attention on the many MMO titles that were shut down before they were completed. But for now let's look at a dozen games that you will never play.

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