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Lost Cities no longer found on XBLA

by Alexander Sliwinski on Apr 16th 2009 1:30PM

We've confirmed with Major Nelson that the now-aptly named Lost Cities has disappeared from Xbox Live Arcade. Apparently, not too many folks were actually looking for the game, as our inbox holds an overlooked tip about its missingness dating back to March 4th.

The game was published by Sierra last summer, but we presume that those rights transferred over to Activision Blizzard in "The Merger." Microsoft currently has no further details on why the game was pulled, though Major Nelson remarks that it's only the second game to be pulled from the service (the first being Yaris). In case you were wondering, this has nothing to do with poorly performing XBLA titles being delisted from XBLA, that program hasn't yet been implemented -- and likely never will.

[Thanks Josh and Jeremy]

Tags: activision, lost-cities, Microsoft, sierra, xbla, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (36)

It wasn't a bad game. I still have the trial sitting on my hard drive. I guess I won't delete it, just in case I ever really want to buy it.

I play the real version of this. It's a nice simple game at first that has a surprising amount of strategy.

i own this game and love it! I wish i could play against people online too. If you want to play this game on live, send me a friend request and I will try to organize an online game night.

gt: Latin Trident

The Keltis board version is much better.

Oh NO!!!!! I was SO Gonna get that Yaris game!!!

They should bring it back!!

Way to be a fucking troll, like always.

me a Troll???

like Always???

LMAO!!!

Eat a Dick...

It looks dumb =P

Lost Cities is a lot of fun, I just wish there were people to play against on LIVE.

I love the actual game but didn't know it was on live...is there any hope for me?

I enjoyed the trial, so I bought the full version. I enjoyed th full version, so I bought the actual card game. XBLA should bring it back, people might give it a chance now.

Ah, I forgot to buy that one. Too late now, I guess.

When I first loaded the trial, I thought, "This is crap, I don't want to sit through a long tutorial" and bailed.

Several months later I loaded it up again when I was bored, went through the tutorial and ended up enjoying it. Considered buying it but I believe it was 800 points and I thought there are much better things in XBLA to spend 800 points on. Perhaps if it were 400 I may have pulled the trigger. For 200 I definitely would have.

Considering the actual card game costs in the realm of $30, 800 points isn't too bad.

Damn, I had planned to get that one at some point. I really enjoyed the trial...

Rats!

Bummer, I liked this game.

I thought that people who own the full game can recommend it to another user, so that it is still possible to download and buy it.

If Mazzini or Benny care to test it, they can try adding me as a friend (garywolf) and recommending the game. I love the card game itself and just went out to try to buy it on XBLA but saw that it was gone.

yeah, please send a recommendation to gamertag oswald if you already own the game...

I know a few people who have been hunting for this and I'd love to get it to them via recommendations.

Lost Cities is a great card game. I wish these companies would announce when they're going to pull a game, this has been on my "to buy" list for a while.

Hopefully, this won't discourage other companies producing board/card games (like the upcoming Dungeon Twister) for XBLA/PSN.

Didn't Zombies get cancelled too? Yeesh

That's a good idea. They should announce delistings prior to pulling them. It's a standard sales technique ("Buy now before it's gone!").

Exactly, give me some Up Front, Race for the Galaxy, War for Edadh, or allow me to play some spear chucking negroes (Umenzi faction) ala Battleground: Fantasy Warfare please.

(I like the umenzi because now brown people can play dress up easier at renfaires etc. Also spear chucking is factual not racist because that's what these voodoo worshiping tribal cats do in this game. I just find the design choices interesting)

To continue... give me other card games like Fairytale, Masquerade, Phantom Rummy, and Dominion. Or perhaps a Mahjhong variant like Mhing. Or TCG like Mythos, Netrunner, ME:tW etc.

If you need to design an entirely new game from scratch due to licensing issues try to keep the nad fondle-ation to a minimum. I really don't need to feel you cupping my balls as you try to piecemeal tax me with absurd booster pack/ expansion pricing etc.

In fact just keep your hands off my balls in general.

This game wasn't too bad. There's worse games than this that deserve delisting.

I'd love it too! I would be eternally grateful if you could recommend it to ShimmerGeek - someone? :) Purrlease? ^^

Please send a recommendation to gamertag Bignev44

Would love to try this game out.

I also own the full version of this game, but had heard it disappeared around the same time the 2008 Xbox LIVE Arcade Awards started, which was funny due to Lost Cities being nominated for an award in the voting area. Obviously it didn't win, but that might partly have been due to no demo being available for people to try.

Hook me up with a recommendation VanlslePimp, i gotta try the game out since everyone is talking about it.

If you liked Lost Cities and want to continue playing an electronic version, head to flexgames.com. They have a free version on there.

This is one of those board/card games that has been on my radar. Recently purchased Race for the Galaxy and have been very happy with that. This disappearance really is a shame, the more geeky board gamey stuff on XBLA, the better.

There were two other games pulled from the arcade service. The EA Sports Live score tracker and Live draft tracker have both been pulled. I went to DL the score tracker during the NCAA tourney and it was gone. I could download the trial from my history but it would not let me purchase it.

Hmmm. Shame. I was looking to buy this if it would drop to 400 or less.

The trial was good; but it was a bit feature-sparse for 800 MSP.

if someone wouldn't mid hitting me up with a recommendation GT: Smalfri2

please send a rec to superflypmp , thanks.

If it works to have someone send a recommendation, I'd like one. this was one of those games I always meant to buy and I never got around to it. My gamertag is Yojimbo28

The game is also unavailable from Amazon's new service:

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cities-Online-Game-Xbox-360/dp/B001LRQ8ZC/ref=pd_ts_vg_83?ie=UTF8&s=videogames

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