Looks like we can thank Quentin Tarantino for the upcoming season of Justifiedīritney Spears Is Apparently Alive and Thriving in Mexico James Mangold Drops More Hints About Indiana Jones 5 Without knowing our history, without keeping track of where we came from, we can’t ever know where we’re going. It’s for this reason that game preservation is so important. While some of these are still playable in one way or another, a vast majority of them aren’t. It’s always a shame to see games get taken offline, no matter the reason. After nearly a decade of operation, the game’s English publisher Gameforge announced that, because it was “no longer able to offer you the exciting and satisfying content you deserve,” the game would be shut down, and indeed, the servers were taken offline as of June 30. subsidiary Bluehole Studio, is done and dusted. The massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Tera, developed by Krafton Inc. With that, here are 14 games that died in 2022:Ī Tera image of a warrior battling a huge, multi-legged monstrosity. Read More: 12 Games Killed In 2021 That Prove Preservation Is Vital Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham Spark More Dating Rumors After NYC Sighting The Week In Games: Holiday Season EditionĪn Iowa Mechanic Has to Pay $7.2 Million After Allegedly Scamming Repairs on Classic Cars Private Boeing 747 With Just Over 50 Flight Hours Scrapped Not every game on this list is “dead” in the traditional sense, with some still having minor functionality that makes them somewhat playable, but all are no longer receiving developmental resources or updates, effectively making them dead games.Ĭustomers Are Really Not Impressed With Kia Dealers There were quite a few, too, from racing sims like Dirt Rally and Project Cars to battle royales like Hyper Scape and massively-multiplayer online role-playing games such as Tera. Please, bow your heads as were solemnly mark this year’s casualties.
But as MMOs and live-service games (or “games as a service”) began to proliferate, requiring online servers and constant support from developers to keep things up and running, so too has the number of games that’ve hit in the graveyard.
These games couldn’t “die” because they simply…existed. No day-one updates or extra patches-it was simple. There was a time, back in the day, where you’d just buy a finished game and played it.
A collage of ghostly game characters, including Reaper (Overwatch, left), Naruto Uzumaki (Jump Force, center), a Hyper Scape guy (center right), and a Dirt 4 car (right).
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