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
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.
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
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload and Guilty Gear Isuka return to Steam
After publishing rights changed hands back in August 2016, both Guilty Gear X2 #Reload and Guilty Gear Isuka were removed from Steam. Not much had changed until January 6th when one forum post asking where the game was elicited a response from one of the developers at Arc System Works. Sure enough, both games were
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
Archiving the Xbox Fitness Workout Routines
Unfortunately I was not able to grab all of the Xbox Fitness workouts from when the service first launched but I have now archived some of them. The Delisted Games YouTube channel now has a playlist where I’ll be collecting the workouts as I record them ahead of the service’s final day on July 1st,
Spider-Man and Ninja Turtle Games from Activision Delisted
USGamer posted earlier today about several new delistings from Activision. The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, based on the 2012 and 2014 films as well as Platinum Games’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan have been removed from Steam, the Xbox Marketplace and the PlayStation Store. The first Spider-Man title was released