After the release of LA Noire in 2011, its developer Team Bondi crumbled while in the midst of developing a sequel, unfortunately, named "The Whore of the Orient." This is its story.

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Sources
Team Bondi: The First Interview
https://web.archive.org/web/200403111...

Rockstar Gets LA Noire
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/roc...

LA Noire Motionscan Overview
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainmen...

Why Did LA Noire Take Seven Years to Develop?
https://www.ign.com/articles/2011/06/...

How LA Noire Recreated 1940s LA
https://www.popsci.com/technology/art...
kstarrebuilt1940slosangeleslanoire/

Nobody Wants to Work With Team Bondi
https://kotaku.com/nobodywantstowo...

George Miller, KMM Interactive
https://web.archive.org/web/201202131...

Brendan McNamara Eurogamer
https://www.eurogamer.net/brendanmcn...

Playstation Magazine Games “Whore of the Orient”
https://web.archive.org/web/201202070...

Kotaku First Look
https://kotaku.com/heresthefirstl...

Development Ongoing
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/tea...

Playstation Magazine Games “Whore of the Orient”
https://web.archive.org/web/201202070...

Funding
https://www.gamesradar.com/whoreorie...

Bulletpoint’s Report on the Interactive Media Fund
https://www.bulletpoint.com.au/intera...

Screen NSW:
https://www.screen.nsw.gov.au/funding...

Projects for NSW:
https://projectmanager.com.au/nswgov...

Alex Carslyle’s New Digs
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Intuitive Game Studio
https://www.polygon.com/2013/5/28/437...

Single Screenshot:
https://web.archive.org/web/201304212...

Team Laid Off?
https://web.archive.org/web/201304211...

Alex Carlyle Interview
https://pixelenemy.com/lanoiredesi...

Layoffs, Broken Hyperlink
https://www.gamesradar.com/whoreorie...

Leaked Footage Article:
https://www.videogamer.com/news/whore...

Leaked Video Footage:
   • Whore of the Orient Leaked Gameplay F...  

Interview with Alex Carlyle (doesn’t know what Rockstar is doing with the franchise, game leak was “unfinished”)
https://pixelenemy.com/lanoiredesi...

Cancellation Podcast Interview w/ Derek Proud June 2016
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Cancellation Article
https://web.archive.org/web/201607010...

KMMIE Project Cancelled
https://www.polygon.com/2016/6/24/120...

Video Game Deluxe LinkedIn
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Video Game Deluxe doing San Andreas VR
https://80.lv/articles/videogamesde...

Don’t Count Out LA Noire 2
https://www.destructoid.com/rockstar...

LA Noire 2 From Rockstar
https://gamerant.com/lanoire2rumor/

LA Noire 2 Not GTA VI
https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/18/lanoi...

LA Noire 2 Rumor
https://vreviewblog.wordpress.com/202...


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