In a recent interview with Joystiq’s Chris Grant and the team from PS3 Fanboy, Sony Worldwide Studios presient Shuhei Yoshida confirmed the worst: Sony’s short-lived experiment with episodic content is over. Rat Race has been cancelled.

“We really liked the concept; it’s like The Office TV series. It was kind of funny but we were not quite happy with how the game was turning out and there was some difficulty in development.”

Rat Race was planned as a sitcom style adventure game. Writers involved had written for SNL, Conan, Flight of the Conchords… The list goes on and on. A ton of them were supposed to be premiere New York comics. My guess was Judah Friedlander was somewhere in the mix, but who knows?

I’d love to hear from some of the writers involved. If anyone knows of any specific faces, let me know and I’ll see what I can do.

More on the now abandoned Rat Race can be found at last year’s game announcing blog post here.

On a side note, not everybody was as excited about this as I was. As I was crafting this post, Dan sent the following gchat: “joystiq is saying that terrible rat race game for the PSN has been cancelled… thank god.” Dan, why do you hate comedy?