If over a decade of silence and an abandoned trademark wasn’t enough for you, rest assured that Rockstar Games’ PlayStation-exclusive Agent is no more. The company crushed any glimmer of hope fans had left by quietly removing the game from its catalog on the official Rockstar Games website. The webpage for Agent now redirects to the Rockstar homepage.
Rockstar deleted Agent from their Games section.#RockstarGames pic.twitter.com/izTUcL4IAW
— Ulvi (@CyberBlacks) October 5, 2021
Agent was first teased back in 2007 when Rockstar Games announced that it was working on a PlayStation 3 exclusive. “As part of our long standing relationship with Rockstar, and the incredible success for both companies with the cultural icon that is Grand Theft Auto we’ve agreed to the PlayStation exclusive rights of the next great franchise from the Rockstar studios,” Sony told fans at the time.
At E3 2009, Agent was finally unveiled. But what happened after that is anybody’s guess.
“Agent takes players on a paranoid journey into the world of counter-intelligence, espionage, and political assassinations during the height of the Cold War at the end of the 1970s” reads the only piece of information we ever received for the title.
Up until 2013, Sony hinted that Agent was still in development. That year, Rockstar renewed the game’s trademark, and many assumed that the developer was working on a cross-gen release or a (then) next-gen PS4 launch instead.
In 2014, rumors started swirling that Agent was cancelled, and beyond a trademark renewal in 2016, there has been no further development surrounding the title except for its recent removal.
Rest in peace.
