🛠️ Two-Day Rumor Reversal
2026 · Development
Event Details
On August 16, 2026 a video titled “You’re not going to Gamescom, bro — ANANTA has already crossed NetEase’s kill line” spread on Bilibili with over 110,000 views and a thousand comments, dragging the long-circulating “cancelled” claim back into the spotlight. The claim never produced any official source — it was a community guess.
Two days later, on August 18, ANANTA’s official Weibo announced the game would appear at Gamescom 2026 Opening Night Live, and show organizer Geoff Keighley confirmed it on the exhibitor list — Naked Rain, NetEase Leihuo’s urban open-world, was back in the public eye. The uploader later joked it was “a boomerang at light speed.”
Hard facts worth contrasting: the game’s publishing license was already approved in December 2024, and on NetEase’s Q1 2026 earnings call in May management said they would “rather spend more time making the quality solid.”
Impact
This rumor-to-reversal episode is a reference case for how to read ANANTA’s credibility: the developer never took a single cancel action, and the “cancelled” claim is untraceable. It reminds the community that, ahead of the January 15, 2027 launch, judging the project’s status should rest on checkable facts — the license, the exhibition, management’s tone — not on emotional “kill line” rumors.