[game_preservation] When XBLA games shut down

[Devin Monnens]

There's been a lot of hullaballoo about MMO's shutting down on the PC, but
console-based MMOs can also fail, the most recent casualty of which is
Chromehounds:

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/01/06/chromehounds-tossed-onto-the-scrap-heap.aspx

<http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/01/06/chromehounds-tossed-onto-the-scrap-heap.aspx>A
few other multiplayer online games like PSO, Metal Gear Online, and Resident
Evil: Outbreak all had online components. Due to the closed nature of
console gaming, it seems like it would be a lot harder to preserve online
console play, though there could certainly be some hacks like Warp Pipe for
Gamecube.

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Devin Monnens
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