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Dead Game News Launch, First Episode

The first episode of Dead Game News! Includes coverage on the Playstation 2 online network, WWE 2015, and Nosgoth.

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Aside from email, is it alright if we send you news on dead games in this thread as well?

Welp, now what?

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This is really great Ross,spreading this around with a dedicated youtube channel is a brilliant idea.

Plus your fans get too see even more of your content.

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This should be interesting, I'm subscribing :)

 

This is some pretty old news, but do you plan to mention GameSpy's shutdown? So many games were affected by this, including almost every online game on Wii and DS. FlatOut 2, a great PC derby racing game, was one of my favorites and is also affected (although its singleplayer still works fine, and there are community ways to still play online). And Gearbox Software should be applauded, since the original Borderlands also used GameSpy but they updated the game to work without it, and gave everyone with a retail disc a Steam copy of the game so they would also get the update. They really didn't have to do that, so if you plan to make a "catch up" episode detailing some key events from the not-so-recent past, giving Gearbox the credit they deserve would be nice. :)

 

Edit: also, are you sure "channel intro" doesn't exist? I've never owned or managed a youtube channel (aside for uploading the rare video to share with a friend or two) so I don't know exactly what you're talking about, but I've seen plenty of channels with one video that starts playing automatically when you open the channel page.

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I don't know Ross' workflow, but wouldn't emailing him suggestions make his inbox even messier than it already is?

 

I would suggest Google Form (or any other similar platform) where people could post suggestions, so that end result is nice looking table instead of bunch of emails getting lost somewhere in Ross' inbox.

Form: http://goo.gl/forms/9aLWXTH8wo

Table: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aHbzjjMz-xyeCmubGs7HtQksM3ykWd_foLJuJihJiP8/edit?usp=sharing

(provided example answer of Magicka: Wizard Wars getting killed)

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Actually, I've already created a Google form about a month back.

 

Form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1i-_RHsz_6LdCBkCv4vURMShpIboevOFI_BAdhMLTk0I

 

Spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sHklszwAENqAOvEtCnwhBYXGqntHuRkqOUBKzbnuicE

 

I think it offers more data - we can see which publishers killed the most games, which platform has the highest death to endangerment ratio, etc.

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=== Ross - News for Dead Game News ===

The ironically named Disney Infinity series is cancelled and its online multiplayer will soon be dead. Around 200 people lost their jobs over this.

https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/42671/disney-cancels-infinity-series-exits-game-publishing

 

Some SEGA Dreamcast games are currently available to play online. A couple of these are still running their original server software; others are using proprietary homebrew server software; and some are using open-source server software. A few of these have only been brought back online in the past few years.

  • 4×4 Evolution
  • Doom
  • Maximum Pool
  • Phantasy Star Online (v1 & v2)
  • Planet Ring
  • Quake 3 Arena
  • Starlancer
  • Toy Racer

 

This guy is crazy-awesome and is developing open source server software for Dreamcast games to bring them back online.

http://www.dcserv.org/?page_id=98

 

Server software in beta / available soon from dcserv.org:

  • Alien Front Online
  • Worms World Party

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seeing as you probably won't be uploading these videos often why bother making a new channel?

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He just wants to separate the news videos from his other videos.

 

Anyway, here's another news: Microsoft will be shutting down Project Spark's online service on August 12 2016. While the game can be played, its access to content stored in its cloud storage is cut.

 

http://kotaku.com/microsoft-kills-project-spark-1776573028?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow

 

http://venturebeat.com/2016/05/13/microsoft-is-pulling-the-plug-on-project-sparks-online-services/

Welp, now what?

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Edit: also, are you sure "channel intro" doesn't exist? I've never owned or managed a youtube channel (aside for uploading the rare video to share with a friend or two) so I don't know exactly what you're talking about, but I've seen plenty of channels with one video that starts playing automatically when you open the channel page.

I just checked 2 channels - PewDiePie's and one Russian video blogger's and their channels have intros.

BTW, Ross, I'd suggest you to link your 2 channels through Channels page on each of your YouTube channels. =D Example: DeadGameNews' Channels page.

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It also handy to have a second channel in case YouTube does something with your main channel.

"I don't trust a man that doesn't have something strange going on about him, cause that means he's hiding it from you. If a man's wearing his pants on his head or if he says his words backwards from time to time, you know it's all laid out there for you. But if he's friendly to strangers and keeps his home spick-and-span, more often than not he's done something even his own ma couldn't forgive." -No-bark Noonan

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How weirdly steady that crossbow was while moving annoyed me such much when I noticed it.

It's like when you spectate someone in Overwatch and your camera is locked to their head, so it looks like it's perfectly still while everything else is moving.

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"Resident Evil Extinction: Online Convoy Game" was a promotional game for Resident Evil: Extinction.

Despite opinions on the movie series as a whole, I did play this game way before it came out and enjoyed it.

It's been dead for a long time, I don't even think it can be found anywhere online anymore.

I can't find anything on it at all. It was an isometric-mission-based-vehicle game, from what I remember.

 

I know it probably didn't hold much importance, but I think it still should be recalled a bit.

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/residentevilextinction/game/

http://www.beyondhollywood.com/play-resident-evil-extinction-the-online-game/

 

I know it's not news, but I guess it's worth some noticed. Some, not a whole lot.

 

EDIT: I'm using the Wayback Machine to try and find a possibly working link.

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