Keiji Inafune and his company comcept have worked on Kaio: King of Pirates for quite a while since its announcement in 2012, and the last we heard about it, it was delayed to sometime in 2014. Marvelous announced in a press release that the game has been cancelled.

While comcept has been busy with games like Soul Sacrifice and Mighty No. 9, we haven’t heard much about Kaio: King of Pirates which was announced before both of those.

Siliconera spoke with the CEO about Soul Sacrifice plus other projects like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms-meets-pirates game, Kaio, which was announced back in 2011, and how Inafune remakes legends into video games.

Marvelous AQL have announced the production house behind the KAIO: King of Pirates anime—Studio Pierrot.

V Jump magazine brings us our first look at in-game screenshots of KAIO: King of Pirates.

It looks like KAIO: King of Pirates is going to be another multimedia franchise for Marvelous AQL.

Kaio: King of Pirates takes place in the high seas where anthropomorphic characters fight each other for the Lucifer Coin.

“I’m trying to make a company where the developers feel more of a reward for making great products,” says Keiji Inafune.

Keiji Inafune talks about what it’s like managing three companies at once, and how his new ventures are different from Capcom.

Marvelous AQL have high hopes for Kaio: King of Pirates, a Nintendo 3DS game developed by former Capcom executive Keiji Inafune.

Kaio: King of Pirates takes the Romance of the Three Kingdoms story and blends it with pirate animals.

Kaio: King of Pirates is intended to be more than just a trilogy of games, says Inafune.

“You don’t get much reward for your effort. You get massive amounts of responsibility,” Inafune says about Japanese game companies.

“I will not disappoint you,” says a message from Inafune on the game’s official website.

Right now, Kaio: King of Pirates is a Japan only title, but it seems like Marvelous AQL is eyeing an international release.