CNET has news that Bethesda Softworks has finally officially cancelled development of Prey 2, the planned first-person shooter sequel. The game was said to be "in limbo" a couple of years ago and last year Bethesda said that while developer Human Head considered development complete, it failed to meet their quality standards, a complaint that Pete Hines repeats in explaining the cancellation: "It was game we believed in, but we never felt that it got to where it needed to be - we never saw a path to success if we finished it," Hines said. "It wasn't up to our quality standard and we decided to cancel it. It's no longer in development. That wasn't an easy decision, but it's one that won't surprise many folks given that we hadn't been talking about it." Hines does leave open the possibility they will still revisit the franchise as a matter of faith: "It's a franchise we still believe we can do something with -- we just need to see what that something is."