There was a prelease copy of a Playstation (or was it Dreamcast? Don't remember) game being shown at one of the PlanetQuake "beatdown" LAN party events, it was sealed inside a game console just like that to prevent being copied.

I forget the name of the game, but it was a really fun 3D fighting game with four simultaneous players. It got the axe when its parent company got sold to a larger company, and was never released. It was novel because instead of tracking the damage your opponent was taking, it tracked the amount of "dishing out" you were giving to all the other opponents in the game. The one player (out of four) who did the most overall damage and humiliation would then win the level and it would play these hilariously sick animations where the winning player would dispatch the other three players in disturbing ways. I remember one of the characters was a dominatrix who would whip and beat the other players and do dominatrix-type things to them. It was really funny, dark humor.

Anyone remember the name of that game? I'm wondering if it ever got sold off to another company. They were literally done with development and ready to release it when it got the axe.