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joystiq.com - 5/15/2009

Valve and Arkane's The Crossing 'on hold'

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click for gallery of The Crossing Bad news for those of you anticipating Arkane Studios' and Valve's "crossplay" FPS The Crossing (and for those of you with good memories). After the two-year anniversary of the game's debut passed earlier this year, we renewed our attempts to get some ...

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teamfortress.com - 5/15/2009

Team Fortress 2 - The Spy Update

— teamfortress.com — © 2009 Valve Corporation, all rights reserved. Valve, the Valve logo, Half-Life, the Half-Life logo, the Lambda... logo, Steam, the Steam logo, Team Fortress, the Team Fortress logo, Opposing Force, Day of Defeat, the Day of Defeat logo, Counter-Strike, ... (more) Team Fortress 2 - The Spy Update

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teamfortress.com - 5/21/2009

Team Fortress 2 - The Sniper vs. Spy Update

— teamfortress.com — © 2009 Valve Corporation, all rights reserved. Valve, the Valve logo, Half-Life, the Half-Life logo, the Lambda... logo, Steam, the Steam logo, Team Fortress, the Team Fortress logo, Opposing Force, Day of Defeat, the Day of Defeat logo, Counter-Strike, ... (more) Team Fortress 2 - The Sniper vs. Spy Update

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playstationlifestyle.net - 5/18/2009

Innovative FPS ‘The Crossing’ Gets Canned

— playstationlifestyle.net — This just in! The Crossing has been put on hold. Of course, that usually means it’s been,... well, canned. The game, which blended both single player and multiplayer into one component, was being made by Arkane Studios. It was detailed as having real human opponents as enemies in the ... (more) Innovative FPS ‘The Crossing’ Gets Canned

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The Crossing "On Hold"
Blue's News — "We ran into an unexpected financial challenge some months ago and we had to put The Crossing on hold," is the quote from Raphael Colantonio, CEO of Arkane Studios posted on Joystiq after they inquired about the "cross-play" game that was ...

Unique FPS That Merged Single & Multiplayer Gets Shelved [PC]
Kotaku — ... creative director of Arkane. That challenge came in the form of recent EA layoffs, as EA had been roped in, along with Valve, to help Arkane publish the game. Along with those layoffs came cutbacks, and The Crossing was amongst the projects let go by EA. There's still hope that the game - which had a nice Mirror's Edge-meets-Assassin's-Creed look to it - may be resurrected later down the line, but then, how many games do you ever hear making it out of development limbo? Valve and Arkane's The Crossing 'on hold' [Joystiq] ...

Valve puts ambitious FPS The Crossing 'on hold'
Destructoid — ... A scant handful of you may recall a very unique shooter from Valve and Arkane Studios known as The Crossing. It was quite an ambitious little game that attempted to blend single player and multiplayer modes into one experience, allowing human players to take on the role of generic enemies and tackle a playable main character. It sounds like a logistical nightmare, but for the time being we won't get to see if it ever worked, because the poor game has been put on ice. ...

The Crossing officially on hold
Big Download Blog — ... We had a feeling about this since there's been little to no info on this game since it was revealed a couple of years ago but this week our sister site Joystiq has reported that The Crossing, the unusual FPS from developer Arkane Studios, has ...

Valve and Arkane’s The Crossing hits a roadblock
That VideoGame Blog — ... Those were the terms used by Raphael Colantonio, CEO and creative director of Arkane Studios. In speaking with Joystiq, he mentioned that due to these challenges, the project had to be placed on hold. At the moment, the Arkane Studios team is shifting their priorities towards a first-person role-playing game and a casual game for the iPhone. ...