The web site for PlatinumGames has undergone an sudden change: A web page that beforehand listed the studio’s sport releases has been unceremoniously deleted, and with it among the final remaining proof of the Ultraman-inspired Challenge GG (through Eurogamer).
As archived variations of the Platinum web site present, it used to have a web page titled “Video games,” itemizing 22 of the studio’s releases courting again to its founding in 2006. Immediately, making an attempt to go to that very same URL redirects you to the location’s homepage. Within the Video games web page’s place, there’s now a web page titled “Works,” itemizing simply eight of these 22 video games and the recently-announced Ninja Gaiden 4, which Platinum is growing in partnership with Crew Ninja.
Included within the 14 video games that evaporated from the web site had been Babylon’s Fall, the sq. Enix-published live-service RPG that crumbled and closed lower than a 12 months after launch, and Challenge GG—the unreleased, formally untitled superhero sport from former Platinum director and co-founder Hideki Kamiya, who left the studio in 2023.
Introduced with a teaser trailer in 2020, Challenge GG was supposed as Platinum’s first foray into self-publishing. The trailer, which featured a personality present process an Ultraman-style transformation to battle a rampant kaiju, stated the sport would function the “highly effective climax to the Hideki Kamiya hero trilogy” within the lineage of Kamiya’s earlier work on Viewtiful Joe and The Great 101.
Little else materialized about Challenge GG within the time between its announcement and Kamiya’s departure, and it is clear that his involvement did not proceed afterwards. When requested on X in regards to the destiny of Challenge GG shortly after leaving the studio, Kamiya stated (through machine translation) to “ask Platinum about Platinum.”
If Challenge GG remains to be an ongoing concern, Platinum is not leaving many indicators of life. Finest I can inform, the one remaining official proof that the undertaking ever existed are the surviving teaser trailer on Platinum’s YouTube account and a single tweet.
Reacting to the web site modifications on X, former Platinum artistic producer Jean Pierre Kellams wasn’t impressed by the modifications (through VGC).
“PlatinumGames erasing its historical past on its web site is extraordinarily regrettable,” Kellams stated. “I ponder if the [sic] pulled the carpet tiles out of the foyer, too. As somebody happy with engaged on these video games, I really feel deeply insulted by this.”
We have reached out to Platinum for remark, and can replace this story if we obtain a reply.
