VaporScare 

A threat or conspiracy that either turns out to be bogus, or simply fails to materialize.

The administration's claim that terrorists would attack us using bomb-laden sparrows turned out to be just another VaporScare.

VaporScare by Ian January 2, 2005

Vaporware 

When a company tries to sell you a product that doesn’t currently exist. But it is “coming soon.” Very rarely does it actually ever materialize.

Show me what you actually have, I don’t buy vaporware.

Vaporware by Lawdg January 19, 2018

vaporware 

Anything (usually software, but can be anything) that is promoted and marketed without ever actually being produced.

When I started Vaporware Records, I did so with the idea of never making an album but starting chaos none the less.

vaporware by Denis Baldwin June 4, 2004

Vaporware 

Software that has been delayed so long that it will never be released.

Duke Nukem Forever was first to be made on the Quake engine, then the Quake 2 engine, then the Unreal Engine, then the Unreal warfare engine, its six years past its release date... face it, its never coming out.

Vaporware by Kommando July 8, 2004

vaporware 

Vaporware is usually related to a game, such as Duke Nukem Forever, that is always talked about and hyped but never actually completed.

Duke Nukem Forever

vaporware by wunderbred April 9, 2003

Vaporware 

A game/software/thing that does not exist but is being matketed.
Once in a Blue-Moon-Celestial-Aligment-Full-Moon-Good-Luck-Day it may have a
1 in 1 Trilion chance of being produced.
Example: Half-Life 3

_Dammit Gaben._
_Y no Half-Life 3 tho?_
_Because it's vaporware._

See the A E S T E T H I C

Vaporware by deus ex diamond May 28, 2019

Vaporware 

computer software that is announced but does not yet exist due to being stuck in development or being canceled all together

Duke Nukem Forever has become an infamous example of vaporware.

Vaporware by The Return of Light Joker October 16, 2008