Trivia / Kingpin: Life of Crime

• Celebrity Voice Actor: Besides licensing three tracks from their album, IV, Cypress Hill also provided some voice acting work for Kingpin, with frontman Louis "B-Real" Freese voicing all the club bouncers throughout the city.
• Creator Killer: Xatrix Entertainment closed down on the same day the game released. Most of its employees would reform as Gray Matter Interactive.
• Vaporware: Kingpin 2 was announced by Interplay in 2004 with an expected release date of 2005. Nothing was heard of it since then, and it is safe to assume that the game was quietly cancelled.
• Troubled Production: The remastered version of the game was once scheduled to be released in 2021, but no other news have come out of it since. This is due to the game's source code being permanently lost for years, forcing the developers to reverse engineering the game and port it to Unity. However, since Kingpin is a massive game compared to Xatris' previous works, the process would take a lot of time. By late 2023, it finally received a release date of 5 December of that year, after years of radio silence, only to be released in a broken state.
• What Could Have Been: According to the game's lead world artist, Viktor Antonov (of Half-Life 2 and Dishonored fame, among others), the game's setting saw numerous revisions during its development. Kingpin was initially envisioned as a sci-fi crime story, something like "Blade Runner with a gangster touch", before hip-hop group Cypress Hill got associated with the project. Once they came on board, the science-fiction elements were phased out in favor of a more grounded, dystopic Diesel Punk world.