What about the games that never make it to market? Do they have stories worth telling, or lessons worth learning? These are the ghosts of games that never were.

With help from The Video Game History Foundation's Frank Cifaldi, The Strong Museum of Play's Andrew Borman, Games That Weren't author/curator Frank Gasking, Tomb Raider superfan Ash Kaprielov, and a couple of old developer interviews, I round out season four by looking at the life and death (and afterlife) of Half-Life for Mac, Desert Bus, Citizens, and Core Design's Tomb Raider: 10th Anniversary Edition — along with the strange fascination we have with games that didn't get published.

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Tags: cancelled games, unreleased games, games that weren't, frank cifaldi, frank gasking, andrew borman, gavin rummery, rebecca heineman, ash Kaprielov, tomb raider, strong museum of play, video game history foundation, game preservation, half-life, desert bus