AbandonedPS5

News Abandoned PS5 Dev Responds to Rumours of Cancellation

After social media account was partly purged

Update: Abandoned hasn’t been abandoned! Blue Box Game Studios has released a rare new statement, which explains that rumours regarding the PlayStation 5 game’s cancellation is false. It goes on to explain the work continues on the Realtime Experience app and a playable Prologue, but this has been...

• Thu 31st Mar 2022
• Blue Box Game Studios
• PS5
• Abandoned

News Abandoned Dev's YouTube Hacked, PS5 Pre-Orders Are a Hoax

Don't click them

Do you remember Abandoned at all? For a while, the Blue Box Game Studios survival title was touted as a Hideo Kojima ruse, sparking all kinds of speculation. As it turns out, it really is just an indie project, with a prologue chapter purportedly due in 2022. There was more drama this weekend, however, when the Dutch studio’s Yo

• Mon 31st Jan 2022
• Blue Box Game Studios
• PS5
• Abandoned

News Abandoned Prologue Chapter Coming Early 2022, More Info 'Shortly'

Blue Box returns

Uh oh. Remember Abandoned, the mysterious game from indie developer Blue Box Game Studios? The PlayStation 5 exclusive that gathered momentum because people thought Kojima might be trying to fool us? Yeah, so, that's coming back. If you log into your PS5 and push the PS button, open up the news card and scroll down a bit. There...

• Wed 8th Dec 2021
• Blue Box Game Studios
• PS5
• Abandoned

News Abandoned App Patch Drops, Trailer Is the Same as Twitter Tease

Yes, really

Well, Blue Box Game Studios finally dropped the patch for its Abandoned app so that we could get a proper glimpse of what the game actually is. And, well, what was shown is the exact same clip as what was teased a few days ago by the developer on Twitter. No, we're not joking. Embedded above is a PS5 user booting up the app after...

• Sat 14th Aug 2021
• Blue Box Game Studios
• PS5
• Abandoned
• Trailers

News Abandoned PS5 Saga Sounds Eerily Familiar to Past Blue Box Projects

Déjà vu

While the saga surrounding Blue Box Game Studios’ supposed PlayStation 5 exclusive Abandoned appears truly unprecedented, this isn’t the first time the Dutch developer has delayed a teaser due to purported “technical issues”. In fact, a comprehensive catalogue of the secretive studio’s past endeavours reveals that it’s done all...

• Fri 13th Aug 2021
• Blue Box Game Studios
• PS5
• Abandoned

News Abandoned PS5's Dev Insists It's Legit, Explains Trailer Delay

"We are almost there"

The first footage of mysterious PlayStation 5 survival game Abandoned was supposed to debut this week, as part of an update to the previously released Realtime Experience app. The idea, as we understand it, was that fans would be able to watch the trailer rendered in realtime on their console, rather than simply on YouTube...

• Fri 13th Aug 2021
• Blue Box Game Studios
• PS5
• Abandoned

News PS5's Abandoned Trailer Isn't Delayed, Says Dev, It's Just Releasing Later

Supposed technical issues still unresolved

Update (12th August): Well over 24 hours after Blue Box Game Studios was supposed to update Abandoned's Realtime Experience App with the first footage of its PlayStation 5 survival game, purported "technical issues" continue to plague the Dutch developer. "We won't be delaying the patch to a specific date,...

• Thu 12th Aug 2021
• Blue Box Game Studios
• PS5
• Abandoned

News Unbelievably, the Abandoned App Pre-Load Really Is Live on PS5

Check back soon

Abandoned is real. Sort of. After much scepticism, it seems Dutch developer Blue Box Game Studios really has delivered on its target release date for its Realtime Experience app, as pre-loads on PlayStation 5 are rolling out around the world. Images on

• Thu 29th Jul 2021
• Blue Box Game Studios
• PS5
• Abandoned

News PS5's Abandoned App Pre-Loads This Week, So Here's a Man with an Eyepatch

That'll set tongues wagging

The absolutely bizarre PlayStation 5 app for Blue Box Studios’ survival game Abandoned will be available to pre-load from the PS Store on 29th July, and we suppose the Dutch developer felt like it wasn’t getting quite enough media attention. In order to rectify that, the viral marketing maestros have deployed a new...

• Wed 28th Jul 2021
• Blue Box Game Studios
• PS5
• Abandoned

News Abandoned PS5's Realtime Trailer App Renamed Realtime Experience App

The more you know

Abandoned’s bizarre – and oft-delayed – Realtime Trailer app has been renamed the Realtime Experience app, ahead of its purported 29th July pre-load date on the PlayStation 5. The client will allegedly play host to “multiple trailers (when available)” betwe

• Thu 15th Jul 2021
• Sony
• PS5
• Abandoned