# DICE’s ‘Hardcore’ coming 2019 - a 24-year-old cancelled Sega mega drive game

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**Category:** Video Games\
**Created:** [August 20, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/dice-s-hardcore-coming-2019-a-24-year-old-cancelled-sega-mega-drive-game/948 "2018-08-20T14:43:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vespa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/vespa/32/405_2.png) [@Vespa](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Vespa)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/dice-s-hardcore-coming-2019-a-24-year-old-cancelled-sega-mega-drive-game/948/1 "2018-08-20T14:43:52Z")

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This is interesting, an old game by Dice that Psygnosis canceled as a result of shifting attention to the Playstation. Apparently, it was 99% done and is now going to be finished by Strictly Limited Games who has one of the DICE co-founders amongst the small team. It’s being developed/finished on an original mega drive SDK before being ported to PS4/Vita. It looks pretty cool and I wonder if a mega drive rom will ever be officially released or surface.

More info on [Polygon](https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/18/17750680/project-hardcore-dice-genesis-release-ps4-ps-vita)

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**Author:** ![apathetic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/apathetic/32/4119_2.png) [@apathetic](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/apathetic)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/dice-s-hardcore-coming-2019-a-24-year-old-cancelled-sega-mega-drive-game/948/2 "2018-08-20T15:35:10Z")

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I’m interested. Looks very Turrican, and hope it is more that and less Contra. The energy bar looks promising for not just one hit and dead.

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**Author:** ![GraveyardDuck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/graveyardduck/32/5498_2.png) [@GraveyardDuck](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/GraveyardDuck)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/dice-s-hardcore-coming-2019-a-24-year-old-cancelled-sega-mega-drive-game/948/3 "2018-08-20T19:49:13Z")

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The first screenshot I saw of it made me think of Blackthorne. Either way, it looks cool.