Promising FPS sequel Prey 2 has been cancelled by publisher Bethesda, according to an inside source.

As spotted by a NeoGAF poster, Dutch site PS Focus claims to have intel that the plug has been pulled on developer Human Head's title, and that an official announcement will come next week.

The fact that a Prey 2 presentation scheduled for GDC in San Francisco earlier this month was cancelled a few weeks before the show got underway adds some weight to the report.

"Yes, Zenimax forced us to pull all Prey 2 related talks from GDC. I'm pretty devastated by the news. This was to be my first conf talk," Tweeted Human Head lead programmer Brian Karis at the time.

Bethesda has so far declined to comment - we'll update if that changes.

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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-23-prey-2-cancelled-report

I can live with this, other than being graphically very impressive, the trailers and gameplay footage made it look like every other shooter out there today. Hopefully this means it'll be picked up somewhere down the line and taken in a better, more unique direction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMZva__rU14

Zenimax has it. Their published titles have been bombs lately. I can see them holding this off for a 'better' quarter, or possibly even selling off the IP.

I hope so, very few games are as deserving of a sequel as Prey is.

Deserving of a sequel much better then where this was heading.