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We’re nonetheless making it by 2023 and a shocking variety of video games have already been killed off, as devs have introduced their impending deaths. Usually, we’d reserve this record for the end-of-the-year round-up, however we’re ringing the demise knell early as a result of, with 15 video games already lined up for public execution, we have to begin paying our respects now. So, let’s get proper into it.
Replace 03/08/2023 6:30 p.m. ET: We’ve added 12 extra video games to this text which have already been taken offline, will now not obtain updates, and/or are scheduled to be delisted within the close to future. This brings our whole variety of lifeless or soon-to-expire video games to a whopping 27. That’s a variety of demise.
Replace 05/03/2023 5:35 p.m. ET: One other couple of months have passed by, which suggests we’ve up to date this story with one other crop of video games which have unceremoniously died not directly, form, or kind. This time, we deliver phrase of the premature demise of a further 9 video games. Pour one—or 36—out, of us.
Replace 06/09/2023 1 p.m. ET: Right here we’re once more. A month later and we’re updating this story to incorporate extra video games which were laid to relaxation in some capability. RIP to those seven video games. Our whole’s now 43. Y’all can be missed.