Having only ever owned one Apple product, the original iPad, I’ll let this succinct quote from Kotaku sum up the situation. “iOS 11 is currently in beta, but even now, some 32-bit games aren’t showing up in the App Store. You can still search for them on Touch Arcade, and as Gizmodo’s Rhett Jones points
Tag: Dwatch
Keep an eye on these games… but not this tag, please.
Alan Wake disappears from Steam and Xbox on May 16th
“The music licenses for Alan Wake are expiring. As a result, the game is going to be taken out of physical and digital retail. Alan Wake’s American Nightmare will stay in retail. We’re having a 90% off “Sunset Sale” for Alan Wake on Steam May 13th through the 15th, 2017.” The unfortunate but appreciably straight-to-the-point
Club Penguin shutting down March 29th
In a post to the official Club Penguin site on January 30th, 2017, the team announced that the long running online social space would be shutting down at the end of March. As part of the launch of Club Penguin Island in March, we will be transitioning to an entirely new platform, and, we’ve made
Daybreak announces shutdown for Landmark on February 21st
Daybreak Game Company announced on Thursday that they will be shutting down Landmark, the sandbox MMO counterpart and successor to EverQuest Next, on February 21st, 2017. “With heavy hearts, we are writing today to inform you that after much review, we have decided to close Landmark game servers on February 21, 2017,” reads the statement
Asheron’s Call 1 and 2 shutting down January 31st, 2017
Turbine Inc. announced on December 19th that the team behind Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online would continue development of both titles as the new independent studio Standing Stone Games. While both of those titles are promised to remain unchanged for players, Turbine’s transition has resulted in the end-of-life for their
Development Halted on Evolve, Remains Online for now
About the only good news I have to report on Evolve Stage 2 is that the game isn’t being delisted… yet. Posts from 2K and Turtle Rock Studios on October 25th have confirmed that future development of the game has stopped and that 2K will be maintaining its servers for “the foreseeable future”. Turtle Rock’s
Fat Princess: Piece of Cake will be Unavailable by January 2017
Sony sent out an email on October 6th to announce the “retirement” of their free-to-play mobile game, Fat Princess: Piece of Cake. The game’s online features and micro-transactions will be disabled on December 1st, 2016 (iOS, Android) and January 1st, 2017 (Vita) but so will the ability to re-download the game. It isn’t often that
Disney Infinity Removed from Steam, coming back later in 2016
Doubtful as I was, Disney has stuck to their promise to keep the community updated as Disney Infinity nears its inevitable online shutdown in March of 2017. In their original announcement the Steam versions of Disney Infinity 2.0 and 3.0 were to remain fully playable offline after September 30th. Disconnecting the online features has apparently
Original Forza Horizon Delisting on October 20th
Posted in an update to the Forza Motorsport blog on September 23rd, Turn 10’s Brian Ekberg confirmed that the original Forza Horizon on Xbox 360 would be delisted on October 20th. “On October 20, the original Forza Horizon for Xbox 360 will reach “End of Life” status. That means that the game and its associated
Big Fish Games Removing 48 Digital Chocolate Titles
Big Fish Games has communicated to its affiliate members that several Digital Chocolate and Sandlot Games titles are being removed from their service on October 1st. The games already appear to be unavailable to purchase but if you previously bought one you may still be able to download it by logging into your account. Almost
Digital Homicide Catalog removed from Steam
After requesting a subpoena from a federal judge to reveal the identities of 100 Steam users who maligned their products, Valve has chosen to remove all of Digital Homicide Studios’ titles from the Steam platform. Digital Homicide alleges that the users in question caused “personal injury” to him, the studio and its products through negative
Interplay Selling Off IPs and Games
At one time Interplay was a leading developer and publisher of PC and console video games on par with Electronic Arts and Activision. But after nearly going bankrupt, being acquired by Titus Software, settling a handful of lawsuits and launching a troubled Kickstarter the controlling parties have decided to sell off Interplay’s assets and IPs.