Yesterday, GameStop started calling anybody who preordered The Last Guardian to tell them that the long-awaited Team ICO game had been cancelled. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but Sony was able to quash the rumor pretty swiftly. Today, GameStop has apologized for upsetting its customers.
"The Last Guardian has not been cancelled by Sony as we incorrectly stated in an automated call to reservation customers," said the retailer. "Because the game did not have a specific release date, GameStop made the decision to remove the game from our system. The Last Guardian will be reinstated for pre-order when a firm launch date is known."
Down here in the South, we were rocked by hurricane-class winds due to the huge collective sigh of relief from gamers when it turned out GameStop was wrong. I would like the retailer to come fix my windows now, please.
The Last Guardian Is Not Canceled [IGN]
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8:00 AM on 12.23.2011 | 
I would have issued a press release that said
Deal With It
*Disassembles Sniper Rifle*
No, that theory is fucking stupid.
*Assemblems God Prime, Optimus Prime's grandfather, with the help of President Theodore Roosevelt's kickass mustache*
...thanks for the wicked B2G1 sales, btw. So much games. :D
Want Game Soooo Bad, Next to the Ico/Shadow and Disgaea this was one of the reasons to own a PS3. With all the Spooky powers GS seems to have over Nintendo (See: voodoo) causing them to release games at its whim, this initial announcement made me sad.
Glad that its hopefully just a false alarm (I know the development for this game has been rocky but hell Starcraft2 took the better part of a decade+)
Need to not post before coffee ~.~
*this comment is brought to you by Hardees: Home of the Southwest Thickburger.
That seems like a bit of a weird policy to me, though. Surely there are plenty of games that don't have a concrete release date yet, so why aren't those being declared "cancelled"?
Ah well, I'm just happy it's still in development. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait!
Nothing has really changed now though, betting it's gonna be years before this game comes out. It will become Versus XIII after Versus XIII finally releases (on February 32nd 2013)
People. Would. Have. Died.
/tinfoilhat
Honestly, I was thinking the same thing. Outright saying a game is canceled is kind of a big deal, especially one this big.
Well, that means the webmaster or whoever has a lot of work to do doesn't it? I mean theres tons of games with pre-order status with no confirmed launch date. I've got a whole Amazon wishlist full of them.
@Jim
I'd love to see that, and I'd love to see the reaction. If they're gonna troll, mine as well go all in.
Shit, I'd like to see them do this with something absolutely exclusive to them.. Seems like any number of the new Nintendo items would do (CIRCLE PAD PRO!)
With all due respect it's really Sony trying to screw the used game market it's more the developers/publishers doing it. Also I would mainly like to blame this on EA just like how I blame Activision on the $15 price tag on map packs.
Though I bet if I walked in they would start harassing me for a Modern Warfare 4 preorder.