GTA Parent Company Take-Two Cancels An Unannounced Game, Said To Be New Superhero Title From Mafia 3 Dev

As part of Take-Two's earnings report on Wednesday, the Grand Theft Auto parent company announced that it canceled an unannounced game. The publisher did not say what this game was, however, though it did disclose that the cancellation of the game came with related costs amounting to $53 million. Following the earnings report, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reported that the game in question was a new title from Mafia III studio Hangar 13.

According to the report, the game was in development "in various forms" since 2017 and was codenamed Volt. "The current version struggled due to reboots, technological hiccups and challenges caused by Covid-19, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly," the report said, adding that the title was going to feature "superheroes competing in online game play."

Separate from this, earlier this year, the Rockstar Games website removed all references to the game Agent, a 1970s spy game that was presumed canceled, though Rockstar said never said this.

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