Do you remember the news story that was posted a while ago about a mysteriouse game from THQ called stormbirds? It showed off an amazing trailer of fighter planes and did look promising. Well it turned out the reason it was posted on the web was because it was cancelled by THQ. It was deemed as to risky of a project. Ah well, we will never know what it could have become.

An unannounced air combat game titled "Stormbirds," in development by Juice Games, was recently cancelled by THQ, according to former Juice artist Greg Calvert.

Stormbirds was set for release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC--before THQ apparently got cold feet. As a result, the team of over 30 developers was laid off by Juiced owner THQ.

"The game was in the same genre as Ace Combat and HAWX," wrote Calvert in a recent blog post. "THQ deemed the project too high risk, [and] as a result the entire team were made redundant on the 1st of December 2008."

Juice Games was acquired by THQ in 2006. The developer is best known for the "Juiced" series of racing titles.

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