Do you recall the movie Abandoned? Last year, the survival horror game from Dutch developer Blue Box Game Studios became viral after some mistook it for a prank from famed creator Hideo Kojima, similar to his Silent Hills teaser PT for the PlayStation 4. Although this turned out to be incorrect, it propelled the indie studio into the spotlight. On the PlayStation 5, it eventually published a Realtime Experience app with two or three seconds of in-engine footage.
Clearly there’s no game here, and we can’t imagine Abandoned will ever release. But it raises an interesting question about how an unknown studio managed to go viral around the world, and even release an app on the PS Store. It’s an incredible story in hindsight, and it speaks to the power of social media.
It’s been a while since we last got an update from the studio, and that’s because some fans have spotted that the team has been quietly deleting posts from its Twitter account. A quick comparison between a Wayback archive of the company’s social media page and its current one reveals that dozens of messages have been deleted, including one which alluded to a playable “tech demo” inside the aforementioned Realtime Experience app.
News Summary:
- Abandoned PS5 Dev Quietly Deletes Project-Related Tweets
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