Jake Kazdal once worked on Project LMNO, a game from Steven Spielberg while at EA. While it was long thought that the project was shelved or canceled, Kazdal confirmed it publicly for the first time during a podcast.
“I don’t wanna get the EA police on me. I can’t say too much. It was very ambitious,” described Kazdal. “We had a small team — very smart people on it. And we spent a lot of time thinking and talking. And doing some stuff. And it just sort of … I don’t know exactly what was the thing that made it fall apart.”
He noted that he ended up working on the project for two and a half years. “I’m sure anybody you ask is gonna tell you something a little bit different, but it didn’t end up ever taking off,” commented Kazdal. “There was some rival game stuff that may or may not have come out of EA that was basically the same thing minus some of the stuff we were doing. There was just a lot of politics.”
EA confirmed this when asked, saying, “EA maintains its relationship with Steven Spielberg. EA has ceased development of LMNO. EA continually monitors development resources and adjusts resources as appropriate. No new title announcements.”
Source: Joystiq
