In a news post on the game’s official site, mod_ayiza announced the end of the line for RuneScape Classic on behalf of the Jagex team. The full post is below but to summarize: advancements in the day-to-day technology to support the newer versions of RuneScape, combined with an increase in bots and hacks, on top
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Cliff Bleszinski announces Boss Key studio is no more; Lawbreakers & Radical Heights on the Watch List
Both of Boss Key Productions’ beleaguered titles have officially joined the Watch List today after founder Cliff Bleszinski, confirmed that the studio is “effectively no more” on Twitter. Lawbreakers was already on the block after the game failed to find an audience and elicited a harsh statement from publisher Nexon, but the studio’s battle royale-alike,
Deformers removed from sale, online servers shutting down August 9th
Ready At Dawn, probably best known for the PlayStation 4 shooter The Order: 1886, have announced the end of sale and support for another of their original titles, Deformers. Despite being utterly adorable, the 2017 multiplayer arena brawler failed to take off with players on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam. In a May 11th
Loadout also shutting down May 24th in advance of GDPR
Loadout is the next older game from a small studio to fall victim to the encroaching GDPR. In a farewell post on the game’s Steam page, Edge of Reality CEO Rob Cohen announced that the game would be shut down on May 24th, the same day the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into
The Pinball Arcade loses all Williams/Bally tables on June 30th
Thanks to an anonymous submission this morning, we have the sad news that FarSight Studios will be removing all Williams and Bally pinball tables from their digital pinball platform, The Pinball Arcade. The full announcement follows but basically: grab these tables before June 30th before they’re pulled out of every version of the game. Our
Wii U downloads of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze put on ice?
Leading up to the May 4th release of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze on the Switch, one redditor decided to revisit the original title on Wii U this week and found it was missing from the eShop. I did a quick check and, sure enough, the “Buy Digital” link has been removed… but only in
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger and The Cartel delisted
Thanks to Twitter follower ElvisWV for pointing out Wario64’s tweet that Call of Juarez: Gunslinger had been delisted on March 30th. In digging up the details I discovered that Gunslinger’s predecessor — the critically maligned, 2011 release Call of Juarez: The Cartel — had also been delisted on the same day. Gunslinger, the better of
Little Orbit’s Adventure Time games to be delisted March 31st
Publisher Little Orbit has announced on Twitter that their remaining Adventure Time games will be delisted on all platforms on March 31st. At midnight PST on this coming Saturday, both Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations and Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom will be removed from Steam, Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms.
Happy Wars on Xbox 360 and PC shutdown announced
Toylogic announced on March 8th that the Xbox 360 and Windows versions of their free-to-play action title, Happy Wars, will be shut down on December 16th, 2018. The game will then exist solely on Xbox One. While both older versions will remain available to download until June 13th, there is a shorter deadline of March
Games With Gold points to a Delisting for Disney’s Brave
One of the newly announced Xbox Live “Games With Gold” titles for the month of March isn’t like the others, and it has me expecting a delisting come April. Available for “free” between March 1st and the 15th is Brave: The Video Game for Xbox 360 and Xbox One backward compatibility. Not only is it
“Hero Shooter” Gigantic to shut down July 31, 2018
Alongside its latest content update, Perfect World and Motiga staff have announced that their “5v5 hero shooter” Gigantic will be shutting down on July 31st, 2018. Cash purchases for in-game Rubies have already been disabled and until July all Heroes will be free and Shop items will see reduced prices. The full statement reads: “It