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
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Hey, hopefully you never see this.
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.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale loses online play October 25th
According to the recently updated PlayStation Store page for the game, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is going to get a lot more lonely by the end of October. The update reads: Online features for PlayStation All-Stars (PS3, PS Vita) will no longer be playable from October 25, 2018. Functionality will be affected in the following
Carbine confirms WildStar finale for November 28th
After the news slipped to Kotaku at the beginning of September that both Carbine Studios and their MMO WildStar were to be shut down, the studio has made it official in a farewell statement posted on September 26th. Leading up to the game’s final day on November 28th, the team has some exciting events planned
Walking Dead delisted after Telltale Games closure, more to follow
After the news hit on September 21st that Telltale Games had laid off much of its staff and was preparing to close, I could already see the delisting dominos beginning to fall. The studio has made a living since 2005 by turning licensed properties into adventure games, but what I didn’t expect was that the
PixelJunk Sidescroller expected to be delisted this week
Q-Games founder and legendary coder, Dylan Cuthbert, took to Twitter on September 22nd to announce that one of the studios’ PixelJunk games would most likely be delisted by the end of the week. The game in question is the digital exclusive PixelJunk SideScroller released on PlayStation 3 in 2011. It was the sixth entry in
Saturnine Games elects to pull titles from 3DS and Wii U
Saturnine Games, a small team that’s offered a handful of downloadable titles since 2010, announced on September 17th that all of their 3DS and Wii U eShop releases would soon be removed from sale. The full post from the team with all the details follows: “All games from Saturnine Games are going to be removed
The Last Remnant is coming back… but not on Steam
It was a mystery at the end of August as to why Square Enix would delist the nearly-decade-old RPG, The Last Remnant from Steam. But just last week the answer became painfully clear with the announcement of a remastered edition coming exclusively to PlayStation 4 on December 6th for $20. Just days before this news,
Delisted Games Community Recap: Summer 2018
I’m back with another public service announcement, this time as a recap of what’s been going on in the official Delisted Games forums. Honestly, it’s been a lot of me talking to myself but I’m hoping that will change soon. Over the last few months I’ve been sharing research tools and delisting-adjacent links that I
THQ acquisition means Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will likely be delisted
Here’s a little good news/bad news situation for fans of 38 Studios’ 2012 action/RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. THQ Nordic announced on September 6th that it had acquired the entire Kingdoms of Amalur IP, including the unrealized MMORPG, that went by the name of Copernicus. So the good news is that we’ll eventually get to