This leaves only Rampage: World Tour that cannot currently be downloaded.īefore all of this Midway released dozens of arcade compilations on numerous platforms as far back as the Sega Genesis and Game Boy Color. Paperboy is available in the downloadable version of Midway Arcade Treasures Extended Play, published digitally in 2010 for the PlayStation Portable. has also re-released Mortal Kombat II and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is currently available to download on Xbox 360 as well. Midway Arcade Origins contains 30 titles and was released to retail by Warner Bros. Consolidation While these original releases are currently delisted almost all of them are available in new digital bundles or on physical discs. The games were put on sale one final time through the last week of June 2010 and were likely delisted shortly thereafter. While all nine Xbox 360 games were delisted on the same day, six Midway titles on PlayStation 3 lingered a while longer as they were published by Sony Online Entertainment. With the sale completed by July 10th the remaining studios were either closed or sold off (namely to SouthPeak Games and to THQ who would themselves file for bankruptcy in 2012).
for the majority of the company’s assets. After filing for bankruptcy in February of 2009, Midway received a bid of more than $33 million from Warner Bros. These “evolving rights” related to Midway’s bankruptcy and financial woes as the company shut down operations through 2010.
On February 17th, 2010 Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb announced on Twitter that nine Midway Games had been removed from Xbox Live “due to publisher evolving rights and permissions”.
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