Battleborn went into life support mode once Gearbox announced that all updates would be halted in 2017, and now its parent 2K Games is finally ready to pull the plug on it in 2021.

I can’t imagine there are too many people still playing on them, but the handful who are will be saddened to hear that Naughty Dog will be shutting down the servers for its PlayStation 3 games. That means the multiplayer bits of PlayStation 3 classics Uncharted 2 and 3 and The Last of Us will no longer work after the switch gets flicked on Tuesday, September 3, at 5 PM PT.

For a game that was billed as a connected experience, not having working servers for months after launch was a bit of a death knell, and the game never really managed to get the time in the limelight it deserved. Eventually, everything was patched up, the game was updated and the servers worked as intended. Unfortunately for the handful of players still clinging to its original promises, the servers will be shut off next year. The game, its VR mode and the bikes expansions will also be delisted in a few months.

Players can scrounge around for nuke launch codes, and once they’ve hit the requisites they can launch great big destructive bombs. Doing so irradiates the target site and unleashes mutated monsters like the Scorchbeast Queen, but also uncovers high-level equipment for scrounging. A group of players decided to see what happens if they simultaneous launched nukes from all three available silos to a single site.

Getting multiplayer servers set up for games is a challenge, on top of all the work that goes into making games themselves. There’s an awful lot to contemplate, including the type of hardware, how many players to expect, the sorts of matchmaking types to support and an awful lot more. It’s why dedicated servers that run in the cloud – on systems like Amazon’s Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure. Microsoft wants even more developers to use Azure.

Evolve has been limping on since its 2015 debut, and it looks like 2K Games is finally ready to take the game out to a shed and Old Yeller it.

Data giant Google has announced that it’s working on new technology that will allow for easy deployment of open-source, scalable servers for video games…and they’re doing it in collaboration with Ubisoft.

Not everybody appreciated the innovations you’ll find in modern games. This is especially true of the competitive FPS shooter. Even Call of Duty: WW2’s success is a testament to that, with its promises of back-to-basics gameplay. There’s another game that’s been getting fans of competitive shooters excited, and that’s Battalion 1944, which launches today in Early Access.