In an uncharacteristically outgoing move, Sony America has begun sending out emails regarding the end of online services for Warhawk, Twisted Metal, PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, and Sound Shapes. Previously scheduled for October 25th, PlayStation Europe first communicated the extension early in November but confirmation wasn’t clear if it was exclusive to that territory. That
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All video streaming on Nintendo Wii ends on January 30th, 2019
Along with the end of the Wii Shop Channel and the Virtual Console, the Nintendo Wii will apparently be losing its streaming video services on January 30th, 2019. We’ve known since 2017 that the Wii’s gaming marketplaces would be switched off in 2019 but according to an email notification sent out by Netflix, we now
Share Your Reactions on all new Posts and Games on the Site
“Reactions” is a feature I looked at for the site way back in 2016 but I was never happy with the price or the implementation of most options out there. Not long ago however, the plug-in we use for commenting on the site, Disqus, rolled them out as a free feature so, like, why not?
PlayStation server updates: PS All-Stars, Twisted Metal extended, Drawn to Death closure confirmed
There’s been a short reprieve on the deadline dates for some older PlayStation titles although it’s hard to pin down in exactly which regions. Right now we know for sure that online features for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and Twisted Metal (2012) have been extended to January 31st, 2019 across Europe. In North America, the
DMCA revisions open up DRM cracking on defunct games
Polygon has a new post up covering revisions that have recently been made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by the Library of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office that might help us get some of our delisted games back. It’s a dense 85-page read so I’m going to paraphrase a bit from Polygon.
Alan Wake returns to Steam & GOG, back on Xbox “very soon”
Previously, on Alan Wake… In May of 2017 Remedy’s community staff gave a brief heads-up that the game was going to be delisted from all digital platforms due to expired music licensing, plunging Alan into the suffocating darkness of digital unavailability. Suddenly, on October 25th Remedy announced via Twitter that the game had returned to
Trion Worlds bought, layoffs point to eventual delistings
Official word broke on October 22nd that Trion Worlds, publisher of MMO titles Atlas Reactor, Trove, Rift, Defiance, and ArcheAge, had been purchased. Unconfirmed reports point to Gamigo as the buyer and that as few as 25 employees remain. Word has it that the Redwood City, California and Austin, Texas offices have been all but
F2P Shooter, Dirty Bomb, will stay online as long as fans keep playing
On October 18th, the team at Splash Damage published a news post detailing the future of their long-in-development, free-to-play, mulitplayer shooter Dirty Bomb. “It’s with a heavy heart that, after a bug fix build ships in the upcoming weeks, we will be ending live development and updates on Dirty Bomb,” the post opens. After a
Ten More Ubisoft games going offline November 19th
Thanks to Dead Game News on Twitter for pointing out Ubisoft’s Online Services Update Masterlist which shows ten titles that will be losing online functionality on November 19th, 2018. That includes online play, stat tracking, Uplay unlocks, and any in-game currency, for which there is a 60 day window to use-it-or-lose-it. Here are the ten
Spongebob Squarepants Underpants Slam! relisted
🎵 Who lives in a pineapple under the sea (and just had his Xbox 360 game relisted)? SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS! THQ Nordic announced back in March that they were working to bring some of their Nickelodeon properties back to life and that effort has finally resulted in the return of SpongeBob SquarePants Underpants Slam! We got a
Revisit some delisted arcade titles with ease on Archive.org
Want to take a crack at some delisted arcade games without downloading a thing? I still don’t understand the legal vagaries that have allowed it to stay online but Archive.org has a fantastic emulation project that ghacks.net just reminded me about. Launched in 2014, it was updated with over 1,000 arcade titles earlier this year
Club Penguin Island shutting down by end of year
About a year and a half after the Disney Canada team shut down the original, long-running Club Penguin, the same fate has fallen on their much younger, mobile follow-up, Club Penguin Island. A farewell announcement was made on September 27th revealing that the game would be around at least until the end of the year.