Midway's Canceled projects: "The Executives" and "Career Criminal"

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/28/assets-from-the-collectives-the-executives-emerge/

Last summer, just weeks after E3 2008 ended, Midway fired a bunch of folks from their Austin studio. Layoffs happen all the time (especially during economic recessions) but this one brought with it the death of an "unannounced title." Midway president Matt Booty, at the time, said, "Midway Games Inc. today announced that it has canceled an as-yet-unannounced project in production in its Austin, TX, facility, and as a result Midway will have a reduction in force of a portion of the affected development team."

Today, we have assets from an unannounced title credited to The Collective (said to have been working on a canned title for Midway) known as both "The Executives" and "Career Criminal." Found on 3D artist Kye-Wan Sung's personal website, he's got art assets from what seems to be a variety of different console iterations of the game. Keep in mind these are all renderings for a game that was canceled and not final art or even in-game art. We know we're nearly a year late but ... someone tell that lady her pants are falling off!

YAY

The game I got to play at Midway Studios Austin wasn't cancelled I still can't say a word about it... but I do know that it's neither of those.

EDIT: After some thinking, I now finally get a joke that was made at the studio. Our friend at the studio was guiding us through everything there, we saw a room that lead to a whole different section. Some people were inside. I asked what was there, and he said "Oh, you don't want to go there. They're all criminals".

I didn't get it... but now I do.

That's pretty cool kirby.