Harmonix has just announced on the Rock Band forum that Rock Band Blitz will be removed from sale “on or before August 28th, 2017”. The game was released in late August of 2012 for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 but unlike Rock Band Unplugged for PSP, Blitz never saw a physical release. Once it’s
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.
All out of Gum, err, Games: Duke Nukem Titles now on the Site
If I can go a week without thinking or saying the name “Duke Nukem” I’ll be happy. I’ve had a placeholder page up almost since the site launched because I knew fleshing it out would be a lot of work. Turns out, there was even more work to be done than I was expecting. Thanks
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD leaves Steam on July 17th
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD just didn’t capture the hearts of fans. Was it a bad implementation of the early series gameplay or is Tony Hawk nostalgia impossible to recapture? Whatever the case, Activision has chosen to remove the game from Steam on Monday, July 17th, 2017. In a tiny bit of goodwill, the announcement
The Tomorrow Children shuts down on November 1st, 2017
Q-Games and Sony Interactive Entertainment announced in a bi-lingual post on the game’s Japanese site that online service for The Tomorrow Children will end November 1st, 2017. As the game requires these online services to function The Tomorrow Children will be unplayable and Extinct after this date. The statement is sincere, if a bit boilerplate
Touting an easy Platinum Trophy, “Top Rated” has been pulled from the PlayStation Store
The scintillatingly titled ‘★★★★★ 1000 Top Rated’ was released on PlayStation 4 earlier this week and removed by Sony within 48 hours. Polygon reported on the title that was singled out by Jim Sterling as a quick way to earn a Platinum trophy. The game itself is a tile-swiping puzzler based on Top Rated’s numerous
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round anime DLC Delistings
Team Ninja announced at the end of May 2017 that two packs of cross-promotional DLC costumes for Dead or Alive 5: Last Round would be removed from sale over the summer. Unfortunately, I didn’t find out about this until June 20th, the same day that the first round of “Fairy Tail Mashup” costumes was delisted.
iOS 11 in 2018 Threatens to Delist 32-Bit Apps & Games
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
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
What Remains of the Nintendo DSi Shop after March 2017
Unfortunately there isn’t much. After the previously announced deadline of March 31st the only thing left on the DSi Shop is the 3DS Transfer Tool and your purchase history. If you would like to keep your DSiWare games accessible re-download them or transfer them to a 3DS as soon as possible. This ability will also
A Look at the DSi Shop before its March 31st Deadline
On April 1st of 2016 Nintendo announced plans to shut down the DSi Shop on the Nintendo DSi and DSi XL, collectively referred to as DSiWare. The announcement revealed a two-part timeline: the ability to add funds would end on September 30th, 2016 and the ability to make purchases would end on March 31st, 2017.
Work continues but mostly focused on video editing
A quick update since the site’s been rather silent since mid-February. I was in the hospital for a few days, recovered in time for a vacation we’d been planning for a year and came back to a workplace that’s melting down around me. I have been working on content, though it’s mostly been video that
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