[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
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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.
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
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
Be Funny Now! shutting down on Steam “very soon”
Although the announcement was made two weeks ago at this point the free-to-play party game, Be Funny Now!, is still available on Steam. I wasn’t able to find any open public lobbies, which is probably part of the reason for the announcement, but private rooms are still functional. Unfortunately that too will be ending “very
Redfall to receive previously canned “offline” update after all
As if the studio closures that Microsoft announced at the beginning of the month weren’t bad enough, the news that Redfall would barely miss a final expansion that would bring long-promised single-player features just felt like an extra layer of disappointment. Although Arkane Austin is still being shut down the game’s social media accounts did
Those mysterious Xbox 360 discounts are actually permanent price reductions, and more are incoming!
Good news on those surprise Xbox 360 sales we reported on yesterday, they aren’t a glitch. The Xbox Wire news feed was updated on Tuesday with a post formally announcing the discounts that eagle-eyed readers had spotted days earlier. And best of all, these discounted prices aren’t temporary: Microsoft has been working with publishers to