Here’s a pleasant surprise: after three years of being delisted and a failed Kickstarter to save it, developer Coresoft has brought High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition back from extinction! Delisted in May of 2014 — due to its use of GameSpy tech and the impending sale of publisher Sony Online Entertainment —
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.
Delisted Games YouTube Channel taken down but coming back soon!
Earlier this week, as I was updating a page on the site, I came to find that the Delisted Games YouTube channel had been completely obliterated. I was given no advance notice or warning of anything I was doing to break YouTube’s copyright policies. Yes, a few trailers I had uploaded received the typical content
Kill Strain delisting, other Sony First-Party titles lose Online Features
Sony Europe has updated their game servers support page with details on some global changes to several first-party titles. Along with the previously announced retirement of The Tomorrow Children the page also confirms that PlayStation 4 exclusive, Kill Strain, will now shut down on December 18th after its previous deadline of June 1st was somehow
Hawken shutting down on Steam January 2nd, 2018
The Hawken Team posted to the game’s official Facebook and Steam pages on October 2nd to announce the end of service for the PC version of the game. The full statement reads: Pilots, It’s been an incredible journey since the introduction of Hawken on Steam, back in 2014. The game’s success has been largely due
Nintendo Wii Shop shutting down January 30th, 2019
Nintendo Support announced on September 29th the beginning of the end for all online services on the Nintendo Wii. The first milestone is March 25th, 2018 which is the last day to purchase points or redeem points cards on the Nintendo Wii Shop channel. Just ten months later on January 30th, 2019 the ability to
Fall Update for Battleborn confirmed to be its last
It’s the beginning of the end for Gearbox Software’s beleaguered multiplayer shooter Battleborn. In a forum post made on September 15th, Gearbox staffer MereAtGBX relayed a message from the game’s Creative Director Randy Varnell who confirmed that no further content will be coming to the game after the Fall update. Varnell is quick to add
Miiverse, Wii U Chat shutting down November 7th Worldwide
Nintendo confirmed today what intrepid dataminers have suspected since July: the Nintendo Miiverse service is shutting down. On November 7th, 2017 at 10:00pm Pacific Time the Miiverse service will be discontinued on Wii U, Nintendo 3DS handhelds, and on the web. The Wii U Chat service which enabled voice and video messaging between consoles is
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex First Assault Online shuts down December 6th
Just over a month after releasing a controversial redesign, the team at Neople have announced the end of service for their free-to-play online shooter Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex First Assault Online for the Western world. This comes just weeks after publisher Nexon announced the game’s closure in Japan would take place on
Rock Band Blitz to be delisted by August 28th
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
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