In the fall of 2006, Bethesda Softworks announced plans to release Rogue Warrior, an Unreal Engine 3 based tactical shooter based loosely on the exploits of real life Navy SEAL Richard Marcinko. The publisher made a big deal of the announcement, bringing in game journalists to a press event in Las Vegas at the time. The game was announced for release in fall 2007.

Since then, however, Bethesda Softworks has put down the cone of silence on Rogue Warrior. It has listed the game as "In Development" for some time on the publisher's official web site but aside from that the company has been quiet about its development (and it has obviously missed that fall 2007 release date). However that might finally be changing. Big Download contacted Bethesda Softworks' PR head Pete Hines who told us that a status report on Rogue Warrior will be made "in the next month or so."

Currently up in the air is whether or not the game's originally announced developer Zombie Studios is still working on the game. Zombie is pretty busy at the moment with two announced titles; the movie based game Saw for publisher Konami and their own game property Blacklight that's also being marketed as a movie and comic book. Bethesda Softworks is also working with developer Splash Damage on an upcoming game but so far details of that title have not been announced.