Your virtual plans are dead; your diva live has been put into rehab; Dante is still stuck in Hell.
Such was the predicament created this Friday, when Facebook officially threw down the banhammer against game developer Lolapps—the twelfth-most popular developer on Facebook, reports Inside Social Games, with more than 14 million monthly active users accessing its titles.
Any attempts to pull up games like the Electronic Arts-blessed Dante's Inferno, or the Cryptic Studios-based Champions Online Facebook game, or even one of Lolapps' independent titles like Yakuza Lords, are now met with a simple "The page you requested was not found" error. And the only message from Facebook so far as to why Lolapps has been eradicated from the site is as follows: "We have disabled applications from LOLapps due to violations of our terms."
"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.