After its unexpected inclusion in a roundup of titles leaving Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft’s Quantum Break has now also been delisted on Xbox and Steam. Xbox Games & Marketing executive Aaron Greenberg confirmed on Twitter on Tuesday why the game quietly disappeared. Don’t worry Quantum Break will be coming back to Game Pass. It is
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Laser League: World Arena shuts down on Steam July 6th
The original version of Laser League was shut down on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One late last February with publisher CE-Asia taking over management of the remaining Steam release. They retooled it for a free-to-play relaunch in December of 2021 as Laser League: World Arena but now that version will be shutting down too. The
Leafling leaving Steam & shutting down soon, Mazovian Adventure leaves April 18th
Two more Steam delistings from small teams to post so far this week. Leafling grew beyond expectations after its launch in 2020 but with player counts dying down the team is retiring it in order to focus on their upcoming game ManaSoul. No exact date for its delisting has been confirmed and while you can
Eternal Return shuts down Windows release on May 10th, Steam migration begins
Developer Nimble Neuron announced on March 31st that the Windows PC release of Eternal Return will be shutting down on May 10th. The studio opened a migration process on March 29th for players of the Windows version looking to bring their progress over to the Steam release. This migration service will be offered through August
Ten delisted Breakthrough Gaming titles relisted on PlayStation 4
Delisted back at the end of February and in early March, Breakthrough Gaming announced on March 25th that several Zippy the Circle and ZJ the Ball titles would return to the PlayStation Store on March 26th. The only explanation provided in the update is that the studio “decided to relisted” the titles. It’s unclear yet
Cafe Simulator, SimpleTools leaving Steam soon
Two more Leaving Soon‘s to share this morning. Cafe Simulator is being removed as the team lost the source code and is working on a complete rebuild while the small auto-clicking utility, Simple Tools, is leaving with only a notice that reads “thank you for your use. Note: SimpleTools has a useful life”. I think
ARK: Survival Evolved shutting down in August, replaced by ‘Ascended’ remaster
Studio Wildcard announced late on March 31st — in a post that’s too long and detailed to (probably) be an April Fool’s Day gag? — that ARK: Survival Evolved will shut down on all platforms by the end of August to make way for ARK: Survival Ascended. What’s Ascended? ARK: Survival Ascended is a next-generation
Syndicate (2012) loses online features on June 15th
Already delisted from sale, Syndicate (2012) will soon be losing its online features on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Electronic Arts has once again refreshed their Service Updates pages and this time added Syndicate which will be losing any remaining online features on June 15th, 2023. I’ve added the date to the Watch List
MultiVersus temporarily shutting down on June 25th for a 2024 relaunch
Another surprise delisting announcement I missed while I was out that I wanted to circle back on was MultiVersus. The Warner Brothers cross-property Smash-like launched as an ongoing Open Beta in July of 2022 but will soon be temporarily removed from digital stores on April 4th ahead of its — also temporary — service shutting
Electronic Arts titles leaving ZOOM platform, um, tonight
I really wanted to get the news out on this one sooner but here we are. Tonight after 11:59pm PST all of EA’s PC titles on the ZOOM platform are set to be delisted. According to the ZOOM team the publisher told them that “a strategic decision was made to focus on fewer channels”. It
Several upcoming Steam delistings happening “soon” and through April
I missed a few delisting announcements while I was out but wanted to get back to it as soon as possible with these not-yet-delisted Steam releases. This starts with titles only labeled as “leaving soon” and goes in chronological order through April. Thanks to Serrated-banner9 for submitting these, I’ve added the confirmed dates to the
Battlefield, Bad Company, and [NOT] Mirror’s Edge titles to be delisted April 28th, servers shut down December 8th [UPDATED]
[UPDATE 03/21/23] The EA post has already been updated today to remove all of the wording that previously included Mirror’s Edge. It also adds a link to EA’s generic FAQ page and Service Updates page which have yet to reflect the Battlefield delistings that are still coming up on April 28th. Our original post from