A few months ago, Empire Interactive went into administration following years of money problems, and it seems that the effects of the company's fall have spread to Xbox Live. Two of the publishers XBLA games, Double Dragon and Spinball 2: Brtual Deluxe, have gone missing, and it's unknown if they'll ever return.
Zoo Games bought most of Empire's property, but those titles missing from XBLA have presumably gone back to Million and The Bitmap Brothers. In order for the games to get back onto the Marketplace, another publisher would have to pick them up. However, the games are quite old and it's not looking likely that it'll be worth anybody's time and money.
Empire's PSN titles, which include Sheep, Pipe Mania and Carol Vorderman's Sudoku, are still up and running thanks to Zoo. Thanks Christ for that, we couldn't live in a world without Carol Vorderman's Sudoku.
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6:40 PM on 06.29.2009
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http://www.siliconera.com/2009/06/29/sony-patents-emotion-engine-emulation-technology-for-cell-processors/
The Emotion engine is PS2 not PS3.
on topic, what about the people who already purchased these games? What will happen if they have to re-download?
(Who loves orange soda?)
Check your download history in account management. It'll be a bitch to find it, but it should be in there.
Ugh. My download history is full of thousands of demos, videos, games, add-ons, and every Rock Band song released to date. If I lose Double Dragon, it might almost not be worth checking to see if it's still in the history.
It's software to bring PS2 emulation to the PS3, read the link...
It's prob the most exciting thing I've read on the internet since E3 (yes I am aware I need to get out more =( )