Little Orbit and PLAION announced on January 16th that the console versions of APB Reloaded will be shutting down and that the Xbox release has already become unplayable. Fortunately, player data is still accessible and the teams have opened up a migration process to bring existing console progress over to the PC and Steam versions.
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Already delisted, Rocket Arena is shutting down on March 21st, 2024
After being delisted back on November 14th the team at Final Strike Games have returned just four weeks later to announce that Rocket Arena’s servers, and the game in its entirety, will be shut down on March 21st, 2024. For its remaining players on PC, Steam, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One the team has announced
The Crew delisted, slated to shut down March 31st, 2024
After being quietly delisted on all platforms, Ubisoft Ivory Tower announced that their 2014 open-world driving MMO, The Crew, would be shutting down entirely on March 31, 2024. Ubisoft’s full message, as posted on The Crew’s homepage, follows: In December 2014, we launched The Crew, our beloved first game of the franchise and one of
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds and ‘Overdrive’ edition to be delisted on March 4th ahead of remake
Rocket Panda Games first announced in September that another update to Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds would be coming to PC and consoles in 2024. Unsurprisingly then, the studio recently announced that both Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds and Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive (as well as all of their DLC) will be removed from all digital
Poptropica shutting down… not anytime soon [UPDATED]
Poptropica’s official Instagram and X (Twitter) accounts were updated hours after the supposed shutdown announcement stating that the game would not close on the 29th, and have claimed the Discord account that posted it did not belong to them. Memberships for the game will remain free for all players throughout the month of December. The
sMeet shutting down on January 5th after 15 years in operation
The long-running 3D social game sMeet will be shutting down on January 5th after fifteen years running. The developers originally announced their plans to shut the game down back at the beginning of November but followed up on December 1st with a more concrete timeline. Both announcements follow: We hereby inform you that the lifetime
Xbox 360 Marketplace Resources
While the closure of the Xbox 360 Marketplace is still a ways off, there’s no reason to wait if you’re planning on doing some farewell shopping. Delistings are expected over the coming months as publishers wrap up their support of the platforms and the longer we wait, the more likely we are to miss something
The Walking Dead: Betrayal shuts down December 15th after only three months on sale, refunds to be issued for all purchases
Just a few months after its launch in September The Walking Dead: Betrayal is already preparing to shut down on December 15th. The announcement was posted on the game’s Steam Store page yesterday: After considering a variety of paths forward, and with a great deal of discussion and reflection, Skybound Games and Other Ocean Interactive
Older F1 titles, Micro Machines World Series lose online functionality on March 21st, 2024
Electronic Arts has updated their Online Services Shutdown pages again with some upcoming retirements for March 21st, 2024. All of the F1 titles have been previously delisted but soon they’ll be losing any remaining online functionality as well. Similarly, Micro Machines World Series was delisted on consoles back in 2021 but only disappeared from Steam
Fangs shutting down on Steam as work on “spiritual sequel” ramps up
Fangs, Hidden Leaf Games’ MOBA title from 2022, will be shutting down as development moves over to its “spiritual sequel” in Project Soulforge. The team announced the news on Steam and on the game’s homepage on Tuesday but didn’t confirm exactly when Fangs will be switched off. As of Wednesday morning the free-to-play Early Access
Veiled Experts shutting down on December 14th
Nexon announced a couple of weeks ago that their Early Access, free-to-play multiplayer shooter, Veiled Experts, will be shutting down on PC and Steam on December 14th. The game launched just earlier this year and has maintained reasonably positive reviews and hundreds of daily players but it’s apparently not enough and Nexon are already looking
A pre-release build of the Beyond Good and Evil 20th Anniversary Remaster leaks to some Ubisoft Plus users, immediately gets delisted of course
Users of the Ubisoft+ service may have logged onto the Xbox app late on the 28th of November 2023 and strangely found a brand new unannounced version of the cult classic Beyond Good and Evil available to play. Due to a leak from the Xbox store itself, the unannounced games page went live allowing all