I’m still catching up on submissions from 2019 and got to one that also had a feature request for the site. It’s something I’ve been thinking about doing for a while: offering a separate category or page to view games that were shut down as opposed to being removed from sale. However, it’s still on
Category: NEWS
News on upcoming delistings, server shutdowns, and studio closures. Anything that might signify an upcoming delisting will be posted here and may serve as a tentative page for a game until it is officially taken offline. Also accounts for any site news or happenings within the Delisted community.
MLB The Show 16 loses online features July 28th
Joining its predecessors, MLB The Show 16 on PlayStation 3 and 4 will lose its multiplayer and online features as of July 28th. The brief notice has been added to the game’s PlayStation.com page but has not appeared on Sony Europe’s decommissioned servers site. *Multiplayer and all online features for this product will be decommissioned
Spelunker World on PlayStation 4 shutting down July 29th
Tozai Games announced on January 29th that their free-to-play PlayStation 4 title Spelunker World will become unplayable at the end of July. Downloading the game and purchasing it’s in-game currency was disabled the same day, and although you can play the entire thing solo, once the servers are shut down the game will no longer
Our first Giveaway is over! Thanks Everybody!
Our first giveaway is officially complete and our winner has been notified! Over the three week period we had 264 entries and 1 lucky winner (depending on how you feel about the prize) who will soon receive our copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus for the original Xbox. For those who didn’t
Duelyst shutting down February 27th
Counterplay Games announced on January 25th that Duelyst, their CCG/tabletop release from 2016 will be shutting down at the end of February. The full announcement follows: We are saddened to announce that the Duelyst servers will be shutting down permanently on February 27th, 2020 at 3:00 PM PST. Saying goodbye to any game is never
Pro Yakyuu Famista Evolution, Japan Exclusive Switch release delisted on Feb. 28
Thanks to @Dystroph on Twitter for pointing out this upcoming Japanese delisting. Bandai NAMCO announced last February that Pro Yakyuu Famista Evolution and all of its downloadable content would be removed from sale on February 28th, 2019. No reason was given but with the names, mascots, and likenesses of Japan’s baseball teams (and even a
The Walking Dead back on Steam, New releases on Switch
Telltale’s The Walking Dead series, now published by Skybound Games, made a strong return to form last week on Steam. All five installments of the long-running series are now back on sale on Steam and if you’re quick you can grab them for 25% off until January 27th. That lot includes: The Walking Dead The
‘Games For Windows Live’ Service sees Grand Theft Auto IV delisted from Steam
Hard as it is to believe, Microsoft’s ‘Games For Windows – Live‘ — a service that sought to bring an Xbox-like, cross-gaming backend to PC titles for Windows — is still causing games to be delisted six years after its retirement. The latest instance is Grand Theft Auto IV which launched in 2008 and disappeared
Win a copy of the 1989 Ninja Turtles Arcade Game (hidden inside Battle Nexus 2)!
It’s finally time to do a giveaway! I was out of town for work recently and stopped in at the Knoxville McKay’s to browse their gigantic reserves of old junk. That’s where I found a copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus for the original Xbox. This 2004 brawler was never delisted itself
Delisted Games 2019 Site Recap
Yeah, umm, wow. Every year I say that the site has grown by orders of magnitude but in 2019 we saw more visitors and traffic than every year before it combined (and then some)! While I’ll take a little bit of credit for the typical growth, the real boosts came from Babylonian, Fragments of Silicon,
A pair of remastered Saturnine Games soundtracks hit Bandcamp
I frequently find myself perusing Bandcamp’s “video game music” page for a little background music as I sit down to work on the site. Today was no different but I noticed a pair of album covers that looked particularly familiar: Antipole and Cosmos X2. Both games, along with other titles from developer Saturnine Games, were
Shiren the Wanderer on Vita loses online features with the end of 2019
The latest entry in Spike Chunsoft’s storied “Shiren the Wanderer” series is about to get a little more lonely across North America and Europe. Publisher Aksys Games announced in an email sent to fans that the PlayStation Vita title, Shiren The Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate, will be losing its