Snow cancelled

Chris Morris from CNN Money has a new article up that reveals the quiet cancellation of "Snow", an RTS game based on the criminal underground that was in development at Frog City Software and was to be published by 2K Games.

"Over the past year, Take Two has seemingly shied away from its reputation as the industry bad boy. "Bully," a game that tells the story of a troublesome schoolboy who stands up to bullies and teachers and pulls pranks around campus, is reportedly still under development, but is surrounded by a corporate cone of silence. And Take Two recently (and very quietly) cancelled "Snow," a real-time strategy game that let you advance from a marijuana smuggler to drug kingpin, managing an international smuggling operation.

The reason is anybody's guess. 2K Games, the Take Two division that was publishing "Snow," confirmed the cancellation, but declined to give any sort of reason. It might have been because of the controversy the game was bound to kick up. It might have been because the game's developer, FrogCity Software (along with fellow studio PopTop Software) was recently folded into Firaxis, a Take Two-owned development studio run by industry legend Sid Meier. It may have simply been that the game wasn't turning out to be any fun."