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This year’s most infamous video game, The Day Before , will see a timely and expected end on January 22nd, 2024. 

What has been a bizarre development and release saga for The Day Before is coming to an end, after it has been announced by Mytona that the game will shutdown on January 22nd. The Day Before was billed as an open world survival MMO, but the actual released game was far from what was expected, receiving overwhelmingly negative reviews. The game was released on December 7th, yet a few days later developer Fntastic closed its doors.

Earlier this week, it was announced that the Electronic Entertainment Expo — better known as E3 — has been permanently shut down, following its cancellation in 2020, 2022, and 2023 (and shift online in 2021). Now, Stanley Pierre-Louis, the president and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which organized E3, has spoken more about the reasoning behind the decision.

You’ve probably seen the news doing the rounds about The Day Before, its overwhelmingly negative user reviews, and now the fact that its development studio has shut its doors for good.

The Day Before, once Steam's most wish-listed open-world survival MMO, has been delisted from Valve's platform. The game launched in early access to an almost immediate flood of negative reviews last week, with most players claiming that it wasn't really an MMO but an extraction shooter reminiscent of Escape from Tarkov, combined with the post-apocalyptic threats of The Last of Us. The misleading gameplay claims were made worse by several game-breaking glitches that caused characters to clip off from the map, an incomplete and sparse world devoid of action, and inconsistent online features. Merely five days after release, the game is no longer available to buy on Steam and Fntastic, the studio behind the game, has announced it is shutting down and working on refunds for customers who bought the game.

Fntastic, the developer behind controversial Steam Early Access launch The Day Before, has shut down with immediate effect.

HakJak Studios has been shut down due to «restructuring» and layoffs at publisher TinyBuild.

The parent company of Marvel Snap's developer may be shutting down entirely.

Omegle, the anonymous video chat service founded in 2009, was shut down on Wednesday night. Created by Leif K-Brooks, the site allowed people to video chat with random strangers online, and had a strained reputation almost from its launch. Over the years, the website has been marred in controversy, including reports of discrimination and sexual abuse of minors. Citing increased scrutiny of the website, K-Brooks said that operating Omegle “was no longer sustainable, financially nor psychologically,” in a message on the site.

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Long ago, back when the pocket monster franchise was just a gleam in the eye of certain companies, one of the hardest things to do was get a Pokemon from one generation to the next. Yes, there were things like Link Cables and, eventually, wireless ways of getting them from one system to the other before full-on internet access was granted, but it was a hassle, as many fans know. That’s why when Pokemon Bank was revealed to the world, many fans were thrilled by it. Through it, they could store all the Pokemon they had already caught and very easily transfer them to another game when the next generation arose.

Is Fortnite ending? It's a question that has been asked several times over the years — and one that Epic Games likes to play with to generate excitement about the next chapter of the battle royale phenomenon. But this time it's a little different.

Indie developer Dang is shutting down despite its first and only game, the rip-snorting boomerang FPS Boomerang X, getting pretty great reception across the board.

2K has confirmed that online services for WWE 2K22 will soon be permanently closed.

Gran Turismo Sport servers will be shutdown on January 31st, 2024, Sony and Polyphony Digital have confirmed today. From December 1st all purchasable downloadable content will be removed too, so if you do not get them before then you will miss out on that DLC forever. The server shutdown will mean no more online play and no more access to custom liveries, as well as some trophies not being obtainable anymore.

Gran Turismo Sport servers will be shutdown on January 31st, 2024, Sony and Polyphony Digital have confirmed today. From December 1st all purchasable downloadable content will be removed too, so if you do not get them before then you will miss out on that DLC forever. The server shutdown will mean no more online play and no more access to custom liveries, as well as some trophies not being obtainable anymore.

On the heels of a total and immediate shutdown for 30-year-old studio Volition, publisher Deep Silver says that series like Saints Row and Red Faction aren't dead yet. 

The player often blamed for Diablo 4's recent trading shutdown says they aren't responsible.

The creator of an eye-catching Grand Theft Auto 5 mod that promised a living, AI-powered story mode has admitted defeat after Take-Two hauled the mod offline.

So long, Cortana. Microsoft is retiring the voice assistant’s Windows app this month. 

Two people have died, more than 200 people have been injured and multiple vehicles were set on fire in the violence that took place in Nuh, a district in Haryana. The incident occurred after clashes erupted during a religious procession. After the violence spread, the state government had to suspend mobile internet in the district till August 2 in order to stop fake news, misinformation and paranoia among the public.

Despite fairly positive reception at launch less than a year ago, Overwatch 2 competitor Gundam Evolution is already shutting down.