Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it has officially canceled Project LMNO, a video game project that the company was collaborating on with well known film director and producer Steven Spielberg, following their initial work on Boom Blox.Initial talk of the video game project being canceled came from Jake Zasdal, who says that for two and a half years he has been involved with LMNO.
He told the 8-4 Play podcast that, “I don't know exactly what was the thing that made it fall apart. I'm sure anybody you ask is gonna tell you something a little bit different, but it didn't
end up ever taking off.”
He added, “There was some rival game stuff that may or may not have come out of EA that was basically the same thing minus some of the stuff we were doing. There was just a lot of politics.”
When Joystiq contacted publisher
Electronic Arts for details they stated, “EA maintains its relationship with Steven Spielberg. EA has ceased development of LMNO. EA continually monitors development resources and adjusts resources as appropriate. No new title announcements.”
Steven Spielberg, who is an Academy Award winner for both Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, first worked with Electronic Arts on a game called Bloom Box, a puzzle game which launched on the Nintendo Wii in 2008.
The game is simple to understand but hard to master and managed to get pretty good reviews and sold enough copies to lead to a sequel, called Boom Blox: Bash Party, also with the involvement of the movie director.
Reports said that Project LMNO was canceled when internal EA studio Blueprint was closed down in 2008 but the publisher has insisted since then that the game was still in development with active involvement from Spielberg.
In his role as producer Spielberg might be involved in the creation of a
Halo based movie.
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