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Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles (www.polygon.com)
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Warner Bros. Discovery is telling developers it plans to start “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon. At least three games are under threat of being removed from Steam and other digital stores, with the fate of other games published by Adult Swim unclear.

The media conglomerate’s planned removal of those games echoes cuts from its film and television business; Warner Bros. Discovery infamously scrapped plans to release nearly complete movies Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme, and removed multiple series from its streaming services. If Warner Bros. does go through with plans to delist Adult Swim’s games from Steam and digital console stores, 18 or more games could be affected.

News of the Warner Bros. plan to potentially pull Adult Swim’s games from Steam and the PlayStation Store was first reported by developer Owen Reedy, who released puzzle-adventure game Small Radios Big Televisions through the label in 2016. Reedy said on X Tuesday the game was being “retired” by Adult Swim Games’ owner. He responded to the company’s decision by making the Windows PC version of Small Radios Big Televisions available to download for free from his studio’s website.

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[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Some things have no physical media, thus bringing it back to piracy as the only viable alternative yet again

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Do you not back that thing up once you have it?

edit: it's assumed you pirated it initially as this is a piracy magazine.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by magazine, feel free to expand. I'll answer the party I can though... I back up certain media to an additional hard drive, but not everything. Some movies, all music, and some old comic books and magazines (Savage Sword of Conan, and it's like).

Every bit of physical media I have is also backed up digitally, because I don't even watch physical media anymore.

I dont really have a point to make, just writing out my thoughts.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Magazine is just the nomenclature in the fediverse, this is a "magazine" not a subreddit.

I back up pretty much everything, I guess a lot of the confusion is based on my phrasing, I was considering a RAID in your closet a physical backup while obviously the media there is being stored digitally.