Lost Cities disappearance explained
by Richard Mitchell 
on Apr 28th 2009 11:30AM
We reported earlier this month that
Lost Cities had mysteriously
disappeared from Xbox Live Arcade as recently as early March. We surmised at the time that the rights to the game could have been transferred to Activision during the merger with Vivendi (then parent of developer Sierra). As it turns out, according to
Official Xbox Magazine (via
GamerBytes), the
Lost Cities license reverted back to the original licensor after the merger. Without the license to the
Lost Cities brand, Activision can no longer sell it. So, that's it.
Incidentally, if you downloaded the trial version of
Lost Cities before, you can still re-download it via your download history. The full version is inaccessible though, so you'll have to find someone who already has it if you want to play. Or you could always just pick up the card game and play it
face-to-face if you think you can handle that kind of intensity.
