2021 was a helluva year for games. Some of it good, most of it bad, and a handful of it truly disappointing, particularly around preserving older titles. Games deserve to be played in their entirety forever, regardless of when they came out, yet this year saw so many of them unceremoniously delisted by publishers uninterested in keeping up with the maintenance. Taking inspiration from fellow G/O Media site Jalopnik, which put a stellar list together chronicling all the cars that died in 2021, here are the games or franchises that were removed, delisted, pulled offline, and/or straight-up murdered throughout the year.
12 Games Killed In 2021 That Prove Preservation Is Vital
It wasn't just Skate 2 , Titanfall , and LittleBigPlanet that were impacted
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