Additional reporting by Andy Robinson.
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However, the 138 titles below will essentially be lost forever on their respective platforms and are currently not available in any other format.
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Games that disappear after the PlayStation Store closures include: Infamous: Festival of Blood, Echochrome II, Lumines Supernova, The Last Guy, Rain, Trash Panic, PixelJunk Racers, Tokyo Jungle, TxK and MotorStorm RC.
For clarity, we have not included any games that have been physically released in any areas. Echochrome and Echoshift on PSP, for example, have received physical releases in the EU, and the region-free nature of the system means you can still play it worldwide.
It is also noteworthy that some of these games have already been drawn in certain regions: Lumines Supernova, for example, was removed from the EU store in 2017, but is still available in North America. As digital games are still released to this day, there is also a chance that the list could grow.
Click through to our full PlayStation Store shutdown analysis for a breakdown of the impact Sony’s closures will have in terms of game preservation.
Journalist Brittany Vincent argued in a VGC column that the gaming industry needs to step up its efforts to preserve video games before more titles are lost.
‘The medium is invaluable – and although many of us were indifferent in infancy, nowadays there is no real excuse for not archiving all the art forms we have cherished, not with high-fidelity catch maps, the ability to scan items and documents directly from our phones and literal 3D printers, ”she wrote.
“If we do not want to see additional games lost, it’s time to get serious about the preservation – before it’s too late.”