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Konami Requests Skullgirls Be Pulled From Xbox Live And PSN

Konami has requested the takedown of the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade editions of Skullgirls, according to design director Mike Zaimont during a recent developer livestream.

MegaRay3793d ago

Well... better than square, they never make thier games digitally at all, stupid i know

Deadpoolio3793d ago

Well except of course for FF 7,8, 9, 13-2, 14 realm reborn, parasite eve 1-2, 3rd Birthday, Kane and Lynch 1 and 2, FFX HD and X-2 HD Shall I go on.....You were saying something about Square games never being made digital

The Great Melon3793d ago (Edited 3793d ago )

Change of publisher. Skullgirls was being published by Konami, but won't be in the near future. The new publisher is Autumn Games. Konami requested their copy to be removed from PSN and Xbox Live for legal reasons most likely.

Skullgirls is here to stay, it just might be missing in action for a week or two during the end of December. This is because Konami didn't notify the Skullgirls team about the request for takedown. Reverge Labs now has to go through Sony's Q&A on short notice to update the game. Unfortunately the dates of the publisher transfer fall near the holiday break for Sony's Q&A. All in all many people are scrambling to make sure that gamers don't notice anything odd other than a new little picture of the new publisher.

TL;DR: Don't Panic. Bureaucracy happened. Reverge Labs is on top of it.

pompombrum3793d ago

The way Konami took it down though was a case of sour grapes if ever I heard one. They didn't even bother to let the Skullgirls developers know that they filed to have the game removed.. my opinion of Konami has drastically gone down hill after this.. business is business but no need to be a-holes about it.

blakstarz3793d ago

Thanks for information!

GameSpawn3793d ago

I wouldn't be so quick to lump Konami in with the likes of a company like EA (Square is further over to the dark side than Konami), but I'm not surprised that something like this could happen. Business is business, but it would have been nice to give a little notice.

RockmanII73793d ago

There's a tad more to it too if I heard correctly when told about it, apparently Skullgirls uses Konami's online matchmaking servers or something so they're gonna have to transfer to a new online network. When the games goes cold for those few weeks online will go with it.

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DeadlyFire3793d ago

Don't worry. It will reappear soon with new publisher logo I believe.

Kran3793d ago

Oh dear... Spyro isn't being done by Sony anymore...

we must take all the PS1 classics of Spyro off the PSN store.

All THQ games must also be taken off their stores because they are also no longer published by THQ but someone else.

-_-'

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Since The Contra Revival Shows Konami Still Cares, How About A New Castlevania?

Hanzala from eXputer: "Contra: Operation Galuga is a classic revival done right, but why hasn't Konami done the same yet for the bigger and more popular Castlevania?"

shinoff218325d ago

Slowdown. Let them get these suikoden games done first. Alot of us are still waiting for those

XiNatsuDragnel24d ago

Castlevania fighting game for wii needs to be remade plz

Aphrodia24d ago

well, the new C ontra was made by Wayforward, who have been taking sooooo many of these classic franchises and making new iterations of them. Imo they aren't very good at it. And I don't see operation galuga being a large enough success to possibly give them Castlevania.

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Konami Announces Record Financial Results and Boosts Sales and Profit Outlook for the Full Year

Today Konami announced its financial results for the first nine months of the fiscal year, related to the period between April 2023 and December 2023.

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Murdability83d ago

It’s almost like Metal Gear is a well known franchise

just_looken82d ago

Horrible news more proof todays "gamer" is just a cow ready to be milked.

That mgs collection is no better than my ps3 copy but my ps3 copy has 0 server restrictions i always roll my eyes when reviewers or these new "youtube gamer" channels show off the information books on a webpage via a trash in game browser or the lack of controller support like it s a good thing.

Also GOG still has a better version mgs 1 or use the duck ps1 emulator.

Well time for the peace walker remaster pc port 480p 20fps needs a rtx 3090 or 6900xt to run with dunovo konami account then a govt id check.

just_looken81d ago (Edited 81d ago )

All the bonus content on the new collection needs a konami server to load them up if you pull your lan cord only the games will work but that is temp as those games are digital goods.

When i said digital i know there is a disc version games are on the disc i was referring to the pc version and the patches after the fact but yes ps5 has a disc version.

Here is the online bit
https://youtu.be/3ujpsTbNk4...

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Exclusive: The first Metal Gear Solid still has a remake in production

Several sources tell us that Konami is still working on a remake of the first installment, although right now Metal Gear Solid Delta is a priority for the studio.

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Chocoburger110d ago

As long as it's not like Twin Snakes. And I hope they have the option to keep the original PSone voice tracks, which is a huge part of the appeal for me. The Twin Snakes voice tracks sounded worse, and had lame script changes as well.

Babadook7109d ago

Of Course. Go straight to the near perfect source.

porkChop109d ago

It's likely going to be handled just like Delta.

just_looken109d ago (Edited 109d ago )

Its probably like resident evil 2 remake.

for those that do not know fans remade that game until the garage scene but then was shutdown by capcom a few years later bam RE2 hd remaster.
https://www.neogaf.com/thre...

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Edit: compare this to what we got yes capcom uplifted the looks but you can see were the work came from
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

In 2016 fans used unreal engine up until the raven fight it was a full hd remaster square shut it down took everything so why not use there work.
https://kotaku.com/metal-ge...