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
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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
Croixleur Sigma returns to Steam but it isn’t quite a Relisting
Back in May, Nyu Media announced that their rights to publish the original version of Croixleur Sigma from 2014 were coming to an end and that the game would be delisted. However, after that original release, developer souvenir circ. teamed up with publisher Playism to remaster the game for PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, and most
PlanetSide Arena shutting down January 10th
On December 13th Daybreak Game Company announced that the rocky road for PlanetSide Arena would be coming to an early end on January 10th. After a delayed launch from January to September of 2019, the playerbase just wasn’t strong enough to support the gargantuan 250-on-250 player Massive Clash mode. As Polygon pointed out in their
A pair of EA titles lose online features in March 2020
Publisher don’t usually go out of their way to announce the end of online services for their older titles, but some of them do maintain server status pages. Electronic Arts is one of them and Polygon recently noticed the end-of-service dates for a few of their older sports titles. On March 9th, 2020 Fight Night
Hand of the Gods shutting down January 1st
Hand of the Gods: SMITE Tactics was quietly removed from sale on Steam, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One back in August but for those who already owned it, the final days are upon us. Announced in late August, the game’s servers will be shut down on January 1st, 2020, making the online-only title unplayable. The
The Elder Scrolls: Legends ends development, remains online for now
Bethesda Community Manager, Christian Van Hoose, announced in a post to the game’s subreddit on December 6th that all development on The Elder Scrolls: Legends has ceased for “the foreseeable future”. While the free-to-play deck-builder remains available on Steam and mobile platforms, the news all but seals the fate of the unreleased console versions. It
Already Delisted, TRON: Evolution becomes unplayable thanks to expired DRM
TRON: Evolution was originally delisted from Steam back in April of this year, but beginning in early October players who owned the game found that it was now unplayable if it wasn’t previously installed. After doing some digging, Steam user SillyWalk discovered that the culprit was the SecuROM DRM that Disney used to stave off
GWENT: The Witcher Card Game abandons Consoles in June of 2020
CD Projekt Red, makers of the highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 and the well-loved Witcher franchise, have announced a surprising end-of-life for the series spin-off title, GWENT. The news was posted on December 4th that the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of GWENT: The Witcher Card Game would become unplayable on June 9th, 2020. Leading