Author: ShawnS
Vacation Mode: GO
[UPDATE 06/20/22] Sad news: my vacation is over. But I’m back to work IRL and on the site Hey all! It’s time to get out of this house and hit the road for a bit. I’ll be off until around the 20th with only an underpowered laptop and backwoods wi-fi. If anything major happens in
Older ‘Out of the Park Baseball’ titles leaving PC stores “soon”
Out of the Park Developments, the developer and publisher behind the long-running baseball strategy series of the same name, posted to Steam on June 8th to inform fans that all previous versions of the game would be removed from sale “starting soon”. Unfortunately, the notice was only posted on the store page for Out of
Three rare Nintendo eShop releases will become much harder to own after March 2023
There is no shortage of exclusive games that will sadly be lost in March of 2023 when Nintendo finally retires the eShop for Wii U and 3DS. But there are three extremely specific pieces of Nintendo’s digital history — already exclusively released only in Japan — that will become much, much harder to legally get
Onigiri MMORPG set to return to PC in 2023 with NFT companions
The English language version of Onigiri, Cyberstep’s long-running MMORPG, shut down just about a year ago last June. Since then the mobile, console, and Steam releases have continued to operate as normal along with the dedicated Japanese and Taiwanese PC clients. But things are set to change on the PC side over the next year
May’s firmware updates made PS3, Vita, and PSP games harder to get (and some inaccessible)
[UPDATE 06/05/22] In all the steps I attempted on my own end I forgot to add that disabling 2-Step Verification *may* still resolve the NP-9968-2 error code. The final step after turning that off, though, is to deactivate your consoles and then reactivate them, a step I was not willing to take given the content
Reading Material: The Past, Present & Future of Music Licensing in Games
It’s taken me a while to first find the time to read this and then get back here to share it, but I think this GamesIndustry.biz post from Monday is worth a read. Licensing terms and contract details are almost always kept hidden from the public and it makes finding out the exact cause of
Super Bomberman R Online shuts down December 1st
Super Bomberman R Online launched as a free-to-play battle royale title exclusively on Google Stadia in 2020 before making its way to consoles and PC just over a year ago. Now due to “various circumstances” Konami has announced this morning that the game will be shutting down at the end of the year on December
Mistover to be delisted on PC and consoles June 30th
The team behind Mistover at KRAFTON announced on Sunday the 29th that the game would be removed from sale on June 30th. The decision affects the game on all platforms including PC (GOG.com, Microsoft Store, Steam), Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4. Despite some concerns over the wording that the “service will be closing” — suggesting