[UPDATE 07/05]: Developer Bitmap Bureau went to Twitter yesterday evening to announce that they would be “willing to keep Super House Of Dead Ninjas alive” and attempt to regain publishing rights for the game. Bitmap Bureau is the current going name of Megadev, who had reorganized into Bitmap Bureau in 2016.
Things have been quiet on the Adult Swim Games situation since we last had a major update back in May. At that time some developers were announcing that they were working with the soon-to-be-folded publisher to regain ownership of their titles. Now months later, Adult Swim has updated four Steam store pages to announce that the games will be delisted on July 15th:
Adult Swim is no longer able to continue as publisher for this game and the developer is not interested in taking over as publisher at this time. As a result, [Super House of Dead Ninjas, Mega Coin Squad, Traverser, and Zenzizenzic] will be shut down on July 15th, 2024
Steam Announcements – July 02, 2024
On the upside a few developers have confirmed that they’ve regained control of their titles and have made it onto the safe list below. But there are still plenty of games that are up in the air and seem more and more likely to also be delisted on July 15th. Take a look at the updated lists below:
Confirmed to be delisted on July 15th
- Mega Coin Squad (Steam, PlayStation, Xbox)
- Super House of Dead Ninjas (Steam)
- Traverser (Steam)
- Zenzizenzic (Steam)
At risk of being delisted on July 15th
- Desync – (Steam)
- Headlander – (Steam, PlayStation, Xbox)
- Oblitus – (Steam)
- Pocket Mortys (Mobile)
- Rick And Morty: Virtual Rick-ality – (Steam, Meta/Oculus, PlayStation)
- Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time – (Epic Games, Steam, PlayStation, Switch, Xbox)
- Wasted: A Post-Apocalyptic Pub Crawler – (Steam)
- Westerado: Double Barreled – (Steam, Xbox)
Safe with a new Publisher
- Duck Game (Steam, PlayStation, Switch)
- Fist Puncher [IN PROGRESS] (Steam)
- Kingsway (GOG, Steam, Xbox [PC])
- Major Mayhem (Steam, iOS)
- Pool Panic [IN PROGRESS] (Steam, Switch)
- Rise & Shine (Steam, Playstation, Switch, Xbox)
- Small Radios Big Televisions (PC, Steam, PlayStation)
- Soundodger+ (itch.io, Steam)
- Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe (Steam)
Thanks to everyone who pointed out the news on this one. We’ve added the July 15th date to the Watch List calendar for the confirmed titles and will have pages up on the site later.