Once again we are back to fill you in on our most memorable vapourware/hoaxes/BS that has more-than-annoyed us in the past few years.

Let me just fill you in on what Vapourware is;
 

Wiki - Vaporware is a software or hardware product which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle. The term implies unwarranted optimism, or sometimes even deception; that is, it may imply that the announcer knows that product development is in too early a stage to support responsible statements about its completion date, feature set, or even feasibility.

Get it ? Let’s begin.

Gran Turismo 4: Mobile – Lying is a sin.

Remember way back, a few months before the PSP was released, Polyphony Digital released information, boxart and footage of Gran Turismo Mobile in-action. We couldn’t believe it, there was tons of detail in the shots as well as graphics that could rival GT on the PS2. And you know what? It’s a good thing that we didn’t believe it because it wasn’t true. The reason many of us (including myself) bought a Playstation portable was because of the thought of being able to play Gran Turismo anywhere. And instead we got nothing but a sack-of lies. They now say that they are “still” making GTMobile. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you Polyphony.

Indrema – Zip it until it’s ready

Does anyone remember this console? The potential? The power? Well we do, and it’s not a good memory. Back in 2000, some guy started a project called Indrema. This project set out to bring open source to the gaming world. So basically, it was doomed from day one. No publishers would have bothered releasing game on a console where I could just got to my friend Finn’s house and copy the disc. Gaming 101. But back then we were naïve and did not care. Personally I was like “Woow a new games console, so long Dreamcast!”. Instead it was so long Indrema. The company had just relised after months of bragging and teasing, they didn’t have any money. They calculated that they would need a sum of 10milllion dollars. And in this day and age, in the gaming world 10million isn’t really a lot when you think that GTA IV cost 100million to produce. Indrema seemed to be in-a-dream-…a?

Gizmondo Widescreen – Care much ?

Gizmondo was a portable console realeased prior to the PSP, I bought one and returned it… They sold less than 30,000 consoles in its brief lifespan. They then thought that they could make money by releasing a widescreen version. They went bankrupt. Care much ?

Halo DS – I still don’t get it

Last year Bungie said something about releasing Halo on the DS. There was a box-art and IGN also said that they had some exclusive details on the game… And these details were that the game was cancelled. It existed briefly, but was trashed due to licence problems.

Diablo 3 – Not HellGate

Diablo II was at one point the most played online game. And with World of Warcraft taking over the online PC gaming scene, we would all like Blizzard to give us some information of DIII already. I mean c’mon. E3 06 – “Diablo 3” E3 07 “Diablo III”. In E3 08 we beg of you to say something, anything. Just tell us what’s going on if anything at all. Or has hell really frozen over ? Because we were planning to visit !

Well, that fineshes another round of Vapourware in the gaming industry. Check back on Wednesday for more. Or, because I haven’t written it yet I may aswell hype it up and give you previews of what’s to come and then tell you all that I don’t have a keyboard to type it.