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Thursday31st Mar 2022
News Abandoned PS5 Dev Responds to Rumours of Cancellation
After social media account was partly purged
Update: Abandoned hasn’t been abandoned! Blue Box Game Studios has released a rare new statement, which explains that rumours regarding the PlayStation 5 game’s cancellation is false. It goes on to explain the work continues on the Realtime Experience app and a playable Prologue, but this has been...
Monday31st Jan 2022
News Abandoned Dev's YouTube Hacked, PS5 Pre-Orders Are a Hoax
Don't click them
Do you remember Abandoned at all? For a while, the Blue Box Game Studios survival title was touted as a Hideo Kojima ruse, sparking all kinds of speculation. As it turns out, it really is just an indie project, with a prologue chapter purportedly due in 2022. There was more drama this weekend, however, when the Dutch studio’s Yo
Wednesday8th Dec 2021
News Abandoned Prologue Chapter Coming Early 2022, More Info 'Shortly'
Blue Box returns
Uh oh. Remember Abandoned, the mysterious game from indie developer Blue Box Game Studios? The PlayStation 5 exclusive that gathered momentum because people thought Kojima might be trying to fool us? Yeah, so, that's coming back. If you log into your PS5 and push the PS button, open up the news card and scroll down a bit. There...
Saturday14th Aug 2021
News Abandoned App Patch Drops, Trailer Is the Same as Twitter Tease
Yes, really
Well, Blue Box Game Studios finally dropped the patch for its Abandoned app so that we could get a proper glimpse of what the game actually is. And, well, what was shown is the exact same clip as what was teased a few days ago by the developer on Twitter. No, we're not joking. Embedded above is a PS5 user booting up the app after...
Friday13th Aug 2021
News Abandoned PS5 Saga Sounds Eerily Familiar to Past Blue Box Projects
Déjà vu
While the saga surrounding Blue Box Game Studios’ supposed PlayStation 5 exclusive Abandoned appears truly unprecedented, this isn’t the first time the Dutch developer has delayed a teaser due to purported “technical issues”. In fact, a comprehensive catalogue of the secretive studio’s past endeavours reveals that it’s done all...
News Abandoned PS5's Dev Insists It's Legit, Explains Trailer Delay
"We are almost there"
The first footage of mysterious PlayStation 5 survival game Abandoned was supposed to debut this week, as part of an update to the previously released Realtime Experience app. The idea, as we understand it, was that fans would be able to watch the trailer rendered in realtime on their console, rather than simply on YouTube...
Thursday12th Aug 2021
News PS5's Abandoned Trailer Isn't Delayed, Says Dev, It's Just Releasing Later
Supposed technical issues still unresolved
Update (12th August): Well over 24 hours after Blue Box Game Studios was supposed to update Abandoned's Realtime Experience App with the first footage of its PlayStation 5 survival game, purported "technical issues" continue to plague the Dutch developer. "We won't be delaying the patch to a specific date,...
Thursday29th Jul 2021
News Unbelievably, the Abandoned App Pre-Load Really Is Live on PS5
Check back soon
Abandoned is real. Sort of. After much scepticism, it seems Dutch developer Blue Box Game Studios really has delivered on its target release date for its Realtime Experience app, as pre-loads on PlayStation 5 are rolling out around the world. Images on
Wednesday28th Jul 2021
News PS5's Abandoned App Pre-Loads This Week, So Here's a Man with an Eyepatch
That'll set tongues wagging
The absolutely bizarre PlayStation 5 app for Blue Box Studios’ survival game Abandoned will be available to pre-load from the PS Store on 29th July, and we suppose the Dutch developer felt like it wasn’t getting quite enough media attention. In order to rectify that, the viral marketing maestros have deployed a new...
Thursday15th Jul 2021
News Abandoned PS5's Realtime Trailer App Renamed Realtime Experience App
The more you know
Abandoned’s bizarre – and oft-delayed – Realtime Trailer app has been renamed the Realtime Experience app, ahead of its purported 29th July pre-load date on the PlayStation 5. The client will allegedly play host to “multiple trailers (when available)” betwe
Monday12th Jul 2021
News Abandoned Trailers App Can Be Pre-Loaded from 29th July on PS5, First Trailer Drops in August
Blue Box returns
The Abandoned saga continues. After a string of bizarre rumours, delays, and clarifications, developer Blue Box Game Studios has found itself in a strange predicament: theories are running wild it's all a cover-up for a Silent Hill project helmed by Hideo Kojima, but the team insists this isn't the case. Meanwhile, a PlayStation 5...
Friday25th Jun 2021
News Abandoned Trailer App Delayed Yet Again, This Time to August
Fyre Festival: The Game
This is getting ridiculous, isn't it? Blue Box Game Studios has now delayed the mysterious Abandoned trailer app all the way back to August, citing last-minute bugs and localisation issues. The PlayStation 5 application was originally slated to hit the PS Store at some point today following the first delay earlier this week...
Wednesday23rd Jun 2021
News PS5 Game Abandoned Now Proving Its Outsourcing Studios Exist
Say hello to Nuare
Did you really think you could go another 24 hours without an update on the Abandoned situation? Of course not! After yesterday's revelation, where Blue Box Game Studios lead Hasan Kahraman proved he really does exist on camera, one of the game's reportedly many outsourcing studios now also wants to confirm it is indeed a real...
Tuesday22nd Jun 2021
News Abandoned Dev Appears on Camera to Denounce Silent Hill, Hideo Kojima Speculation
Future Q&A planned
Another day, another update on the weird but not particularly wonderful situation surrounding PlayStation 5 game Abandoned. The man at the centrepiece of all the conspiracy theories, Blue Box Game Studios head Hasan Kahraman, has now appeared on camera in a video posted to Twitter. He takes the chance to convince followers he is...
Monday21st Jun 2021
News Weird PS5 Game Abandoned Delays Trailer App to Friday
Also releasing on PC
The bizarre saga surrounding PlayStation 5 game Abandoned has taken yet another turn in the past 24 hours as Blue Box Game Studios delays the trailer app associated with the title until Friday. It was originally scheduled to go live on the PS Store tomorrow. This is because of localisation issues, the Dutch developer claims. A...
Sunday20th Jun 2021
News This Abandoned and Blue Box Game Studio Thing Is Getting Out of Hand
Saga continues to explode
There’s definitely something odd about upcoming PlayStation 5 survival game Abandoned, but we fear the speculation is now getting out of hand. Two of the top-voted posts on PS5’s sub-Reddit now pertain to Konami tweets about upcoming Silent Hill merchandise (a “connection”, apparently); meanwhile, fans have tracked...
Friday18th Jun 2021
News Hideo Kojima Fans Investigate PS5 Exclusive Abandoned, Reads Like Conspiracy Theories
Down the rabbit hole and then some
The utterly bizarre speculation surrounding upcoming PlayStation 5 exclusive Abandoned and its tenuous links to game creator Hideo Kojima simply aren't going away. After initially denying claims Blue Box Game Studios is simply Kojima in disguise and apologising for a recent twee
Wednesday16th Jun 2021
News Blue Box Game Studios Apologises for Misjudged Silent Hill Message
Bold move
Update: Well, that didn’t take long. Blue Box Game Studios has apologised for a tweet that many felt implied some kind of connection to the Silent Hill franchise: Either this team is incredibly naïve or is comprised of master publicists. To be honest, we’re not sure what’s going on with this game – this is one of the most...
Wednesday2nd Jun 2021
News Remember Abandoned? A PS5 App Will Let You Watch Its Trailers in Realtime
Processing power
Curiosity surrounding PlayStation 5 exclusive survival game Abandoned continues. If you don’t recall, this is the title that – for 24 hours at least – people suspected may be a Hideo Kojima ruse. It’s not, and the developer Blue Box Game Studios put out a statement to confirm as much – but everything about it continues to...
Thursday8th Apr 2021
News Developer of PS5's Abandoned Insists It's Not Hideo Kojima in Disguise
It really is just a small group of Dutch developers
Blue Box Game Studios, the developer of upcoming PlayStation 5 exclusive Abandoned, has released a statement insisting it’s not, in fact, Hideo Kojima in disguise. While much of the speculation was made in jest, fans had noticed something fishy about the survival game’s announcement on the...
Wednesday7th Apr 2021
News PS5 Exclusive Survival Game Abandoned Borders on Photorealism
Next-gen stunner survives PS5 this year
Survival games like No Man’s Sky and Valheim are huge these days, so Abandoned could become a key title in PlayStation 5’s software library. In production at Dutch developer Blue Box Game Studios, the upcoming exclusive due out later this year promises a “cinematic, first-person horror survival shooter...
