A previously announced RoboCop VR title has been kiboshed after it transpired that the game wasn’t officially licensed before its reveal.
RoboCop: Streets of Anarchy, as it was known, was a VR game based on the sci-fi film which first made the rounds earlier this month, when it appeared on developer Coffee Moth Games’ website.
At this time, the game was said to be being created in partnership with Amazon-MGM and would promise an “original narrative and complex storylines interwoven with bombastic action”.
However, fast forward a couple of weeks, and those promises are going to have to be left unfulfilled, as it turns out RoboCop: Streets of Anarchy wasn’t actually officially licensed before its reveal.
An Amazon MGM representative told UploadVR the company never actually entered into any agreement with Coffee Moth Games. “Furthermore, Amazon MGM advised that RoboCop isn’t officially licensed with that studio, and the official website page for Streets of Anarchy has since been removed,” UploadVR continued.
The publication had previously been in contact with Coffee Moth Games, and a representative from the studio revealed they’re actually an outsourcing company with no direct relationship to Amazon MGM. However, “the company responsible for contracting the rights from Amazon MGM contacted us for the game’s development,” the representative said.
The landing page for RoboCop: Streets of Anarchy and the developer itself is currently locked away behind a password, and therefore can not be accessed by the public (I just tried).
Eurogamer has reached out to Coffee Moth Games for further information.