Playground Games and Xbox Studios made a surprising but not entirely unexpected announcement earlier today detailing their plans to remove Forza Horizon 4 from sale on Xbox and Steam, and from Xbox Game Pass this winter on December 15th. While these kinds of announcements for the series have become commonplace, what caught players by surprise
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Another warning about Xbox 360 Marketplace content as we prepare for Round Two of discounts
As we are on the eve of Microsoft’s next promised round of Xbox 360 discounts I thought this video by Randomised Gaming could serve as yet another warning if you’re out there trying to scoop up games and content. Their latest on the topic centers around Rabbids Invasion: The Interactive TV Show which is one
Delta Force titles likely leaving GOG and Steam today [UPDATE: Gone on GOG, still on Steam]
[UPDATE 06/11/24] Several days on and we haven’t seen any Steam releases disappear yet but we did see the debut of Delta Force: Hawk Ops, a new entry in the series. Although the new game made its biggest splash at last week’s Summer Game Fest it’s been ramping up production and marketing since 2023. This
Electronic Arts announces service shutdowns for older Battlefield, FIFA, NHL, and NBA titles
Electronic Arts has updated their Online Services Shutdown pages again with some upcoming retirements slated for this Fall. Previously announced but still upcoming is the service shutdown for Super Mega Baseball 2 on July 24th that EA confirmed back in February. Here are the latest additions: September 16, 2024NHL 20 – PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5,
Mad World MMO shutting down July 4th
Developer Jandisoft announced earlier today that their strikingly grim MMORPG, Mad World, will be shutting down on July 4th despite the game having just launched on Steam in January. Looking back at their updates, the game appears to have struggled with design and stability issues as it moved from alpha testing to open beta status
Home Sweet Home: Survive shuts down on September 1st
Publisher Shift Now and developer YGGDRAZIL announced over the weekend that Home Sweet Home: Survive, the predecessor to the 2023 follow-up, Home Sweet Home: Online will finally be retired and taken offline on September 1st. The announcement outlines Survive‘s peculiar existence as a beta build of the game that was kept online for “players who
Wolcen loses multiplayer features on September 3rd, will remain on sale at a discount
WOLCEN Studio made an unexpected announcement late last week regarding their multiplayer Action RPG, Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem, revealing that after September 3rd it will no longer be a multiplayer game. It’s a peculiar situation for us here at Delisted Games but one that I think we wouldn’t mind seeing more of. Wolcen won’t be
Meridian: New World and Squad 22 leave GOG.com tomorrow, May 29th
GOG.com team member king_kunat announced early this morning that two Meridian titles, and one soundtrack, will be leaving the platform tomorrow, May 29th at 1pm UTC (9am EST). Meridian: New World was originally released in 2014 and Meridian: Squad 22 just two years later in 2016. Developer Elder Games’ other title, Cardaclysm, looks to be
Memories of Mars already delisted, servers shut down June 25th
We missed the announcement before the game was delisted last week on May 24th, but for those who own Memories of Mars [Archive] there are only a few weeks to continue playing the game before its online servers shut down. 505 Games posted the following announcement to their support page: We’ve been on an incredible
May 31st sees The Vanishing of Ethan Carter’s VR DLC on Steam
We don’t typically report on DLC delistings but this one is kind of an unusual case. The entire VR version of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, currently sold as $10 DLC, is going to be removed from the Steam release of the game on May 31st. Developer The Astronauts cites an inability to keep it
Wayfinder ditches live service model to “live forever”, returns to Steam June 11th and PlayStation later this year
Airship Syndicate’s Wayfinder launched in Early Access on Steam and PlayStation 4 & 5 just this past August. But it was an inauspicious start as publisher Digital Extreme’s backend faltered resulting in downtime, server queues, and the current Mixed-to-Mostly-Negative reception for the free-to-play Action RPG. Worse yet, just months later Digital Extremes announced several layoffs
Hunt: Showdown ends on PlayStation 4, Xbox One on August 15th as next gen versions launch
Crytek published their latest developer update video on YouTube yesterday and pinned a definitive deadline on the end of service for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Hunt: Showdown that was first announced last September. August 15th, 2024 is the date that the game will launch natively on both PlayStation 5 and Xbox