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Rockstar finally – and silently – kills off open-world spy game ‘Agent’

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06.10.2021 - 15:41

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Rockstar Games has officially killed off its long-abandoned spy game Agent.As reported in Polygon, the publisher quietly removed the title from its official website, where it had only publicly existed as a logo since it was first officially announced in 2009 at Sony‘s E3 conference as a PS3-exclusive.The removal of the title is about as close to an official statement from Rockstar that Agent is cancelled, though it should have been evident from another report in 2018 that the trademark had also been abandoned.As for what might have been, Agent was meant to be an open-world spy game taking place in a 1970s Cold War setting, which would “take players into the world of counter-intelligence, espionage and political assassinations” though a.

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