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GamesTM and GamesMaster Magazines To Shut Down
GamesTM and GamesMaster Magazines To Shut Down A major part of my childhood in the 90’s was occasionally being treated to a gaming magazine. Without the internet, it was difficult to know what was coming up for release and playing a demo was completely impossible without one of the demo…
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Telltale Games’ Skeleton Staff Now Also Laid Off
Telltale Games’ Skeleton Staff Now Also Laid Off Since announcing two-weeks ago that the studio was closing (with initial heavy staff layoffs) the future of the studio since has been very much confusing. While it appears that for all account they were closing. There had been more than a few…
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Geocities Finally Set To Shut Down In March 2019
Geocities Finally Set To Shut Down In March 2019 I daresay that there are many of you reading this who may never have heard of Geocities. That’s no criticism either as for a long time now the website has been largely forgotten or only remembered with perhaps a slight cringe…
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WildStar Game To Shutdown On November 28th
WildStar Game To Shutdown On November 28th Earlier this month it was reported that Carbine Studios, the creators of the online MMORPG WildStar would be winding down production. Essentially, that they were closing. While this news was sad, it wasn’t entirely unexpected as their main game wasn’t exactly setting the…
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GameTrailers Shuts Down After 13 Years
GameTrailers was a very popular video game website which specialized in unique previews, reviews, recorded footage and HD trailers. The website had a very passionate community and became involved in uploading community content. Sadly, this wasn’t enough to keep the site running due to advent of Twitch, YouTube and other…
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Pinnacle of v GTA Mod Creator Gets in Trouble
The Pinnacle of V creator Josh Romito has been under a lot of heat recently. So much that he has now shut down the project due to claims that he has stolen assets from other Grand Theft Auto mods that are available online. Josh claimed that some people have contributed…
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400 Employees Laid off as Startup Company Zirtual Disappeared over Night
In a twist of irony, the company with a CEO that recently preached openness on company-restructuration towards their employees just closed the doors, shut down and fired their 400 employees overnight. At 1:34 a.m PT, the virtual assistant company Zirtual sent an email to all of its employees saying that…
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eBay Shuts Down Their 1-Day Delivery Service
Ebay has been running their eBay Now service since 2012 in selected cities, but not anymore. They are now closing the service and throwing they keys away. It originally started in San Francisco in 2012 and expanded to other regions later on and it was meant as a competition to…
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MSN Messenger Finally Takes Its Last Breath
For most of the world the MSN messenger, or Windows Live Messenger, has been history for a while now after being shut down in April 2013 in favour of Skype, or even longer if you’re like me. It however lived on strong on the Chinese mainland, that is up until…
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Justin.tv Has Come to an End
It has long been expected, and now it has happened. Justin.tv has closed the doors and shut down, thanking their user-base for 7 years of live video memories. While the service has been shut down and the content isn’t available any more, any user who wish to transfer their profile to Twitch…
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Facebook Shuts Down Gift Service, Shifts Focus on Other ‘Commerce-related’ Projects
Facebook’s ‘Gift Shop’ initiative wasn’t doing so good these past years. The social network’s Gift Shop that lets you buy and send gifts to friends was originally launched back a few years back, granting you the ability to send virtual goods to your friends. In 2010, Facebook closed it since…
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The Pirate Bay Resurfaces At A New Domain After Being Briefly Shut Down
The well known torrent site The Pirate Bay had its domain moved to the Caribbean destination of Sint Maarten this summer, but based on a report from TorrentFreak that domain name has since been shut down by authorities forcing the torrent pirates to move the targeted hub once again. Since…
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iGoogle Has Been Shut Down As Planned
Google introduced a personalized web portal where users could create its own homepage with the most important information named iGoogle back in 2005. Although the service was promising at the beginning, plenty of things have changed since then. After Google issued a thirty-day warning to iGoogle users, the end of…
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