#game-preservation

#game-preservation

is going away as EA will shut it down on January 20, nearly eight years after its debut in March 2018. An update that went live on Monday is the final one and the company is delisting the game on October 21. Since the game requires online servers (game progress is stored there), it'll no longer be possible to play The Sims Mobile in three months' time.

The Crew 2 was updated today to include Hybrid Mode, adding an offline mode to the driving game. Online and offline modes are separate saves, so if you snag a sweet ride while playing offline, it won't be available the next time you join an online session. Players will have the option to re-export their online save to the offline one, but it will overwrite and erase all offline-only progress. Multiplayer content, user-generated content, LIVE Summits and Crew Credits purchases will not be available in the offline mode.

A man completes an absurd but humanity-affirming journey in Minecraft. Control finally gets Hideo Kojima's voiceover on console. And the first indicator of Ghost of Yotei sales is a potentially impressive one. Welcome to the latest Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku's daily roundup of gaming news and culture. My co-author, Zack Zwiezen, is out on vacation to parts unknown for a while so in the meantime, you're stuck with me.

As frustrating as it can be, Digimon World 's vibes are still unmatched by most of the franchise. There's a true sense of loneliness as your character is isekai'd into the Digital World, aimlessly wandering through this unknowable realm and discovering new friends and enemies as you explore. It also still has that PS1-era grit that has kind of washed away from more modern games, which is especially effective when you're young and these worlds still feel vast and scary.

When getting to work on the remake, Maehiro and his team discovered they had to rebuild the source code from the ground up since it was lost thanks to the industry's unstandardized practices in the '90s, according to Bloomberg. When translating Final Fantasy Tactics from Japanese to English for the global release, the company would overwrite the original Japanese version's code.

Big Fan Games announced that John Wick Hex will be delisted from all platforms on July 17, although those who previously acquired it can still download it.

The Stop Killing Games movement seeks to prevent the remote disabling of video games by the publishers, providing reasonable means to continue functioning without publisher involvement.