Neowin News Feed for: Closed

GameStop finally closes all storefronts to customers

Usman Khan Lodhi — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 08:38:01 +0000

The retailer will temporarily close all stores to customers, switching to a "delivery only" service as of March 22. The company earlier instructed staff to keep the stores open during the lockdowns. Read more...

Amazon closes the Mayday live video service for its Fire tablets

Gurkaran Singh — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 21:00:01 +0000

Five years after its launch, Amazon has decided to end its Fire tablet live video support service, Mayday. The feature will be discontinued this month according to a customer support page. Read more...

Google kills Map Maker, promises to integrate its features into Maps

Gurkaran Singh — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:22:01 +0000

Google Map Maker was launched in 2008 to allow users to edit maps, or add places to (Google) Maps in places where the map data wasn't sufficient. However, the company closed the service on March 31. Read more...

Disney Infinity 3.0 getting the ax, will be unplayable on most platforms from March 2017

Usama Jawad — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 07:42:01 +0000

Disney Infinity 3.0 and its online features are getting the ax on all platforms - and will be unplayable on most after March 2017 - including Android, iOS, Apple TV, Windows 8.1 and 10, and consoles. Read more...

External traffic falls, internal traffic rises as Google News withdraws from Spain

Usama Jawad — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:08:01 +0000

With Google News now shut down in Spain, publishers in the country are experiencing a sharp decline in their sites' external traffic. However, the internal traffic has surprisingly increased. Read more...

Spanish news organizations want Google News back

Usama Jawad — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 06:24:01 +0000

Following the approval of amendments in the tax laws in Spain, Google announced that Google News would be shut down in the country as well. But now, the publishers are asking Google News to return. Read more...

Pirate Bay co-founder hopes the site stays closed forever

Usama Jawad — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:18:01 +0000

"I've not been a fan of what TPB has become...", these are the words of the site's co-founder Peter Sunde as he expressed his thoughts about why he hopes the site stays closed forever. Read more...

Supreme Commander Closed Beta on Fileplanet

Todd Tanner — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:54:30 +0000

I know how much you guys just love Fileplanet and all, so I'm happy to tell you all that once again you can feel free to bash Fileplanet for having an "exclusive" closed beta of... Read more...

Vista Customer Preview Program is now closed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:10:02 +0000

The Vista Customer Preview Program is now closed. We have reached our goal of 100,000 downloads for the pre-RC1 release and the program is now closed. Windows Vista RC1 will be available in the coming... Read more...

MySpace closed after power outage

Tom Warren — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:57:07 +0000

MySpace, the world's most popular social networking website, has been shut down after a power outage. Visitors to the website are greeted with a game of Pacman and a message saying the service hoped... Read more...

ROSE Online Closed Beta Extended

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:02:33 +0000

ROSE Online has decided to release their closed beta! It will now end at October 2nd, then make their adjustments for the full release. Anyone who has played ROSE knows that it was hit by... Read more...

World of Warcraft European Closed Beta Test Starts!

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:24:47 +0000

The European Closed Beta Test of World of Warcraft starts today and European gamers will be able to test the very latest version of the game, which includes the latest content and updates, following the... Read more...

MSN Beta Search engine closed

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:26:39 +0000

Bink is reporting that MSN have shut down their search engine preview. The preview had been made available for members of the public to test it out. Developers left the following message : ... Read more...

Outrage Closed Down

Marcel Klum — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:19:19 +0000

Although the title pretty much sums it up all by itself, recently it was revealed that THQ's Outrage Games studio was shut down. Mentioned as somewhat of a footnote in THQ's 2004 annual report and... Read more...

World of Warcraft European Closed Beta Test Sign-Ups

Marcel Klum — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 12:20:36 +0000

Blizzard Entertainment announced the 5th July 2004 as the date players can start signing up for the European closed beta of its eagerly awaited MMORPG, World of Warcraft™. Potential testers will be able to register... Read more...

Interplay offices closed by state officials

Sat, 05 Jun 2004 23:58:42 +0000

The Orange County Register reports that California labor investigators have shut down the publisher--something CEO Herve Caen disputes. Less than a day after CEO Herve Caen said Interplay was "still here," the... Read more...

PC Satisfaction newsgroups closed

Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:35:22 +0000

I'm wondering if there is something more behind this program ending.... Here's an email I received from the PC Satisfaction team: We would like to take the opportunity to once again thank everyone... Read more...

StarCraft, Diablo II, and Warcraft III Accounts Closed

Marcel Klum — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 12:18:35 +0000

A number of additional accounts and CD Keys have been tied to the use of a hack or cheat program while playing StarCraft, Diablo II, or Warcraft III on Battle.net. In keeping with our aggressive... Read more...

Visual Studio .NET 2003 and .NET Framework 1.1 Beta Closed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 08:15:26 +0000

Dear Beta Tester, Thank you for participating in the Beta Test program for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and .NET Framework 1.1. We are pleased to announce that Visual Studio .NET 2003... Read more...

Is it case closed for Microsoft

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 04 Nov 2002 12:27:00 +0000

Unless one side or another decides to appeal, a decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Friday could mark the final chapter in a case once said to be a definitive one for antitrust... Read more...

Purge Closed Beta Phase 4

Marcel Klum — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:56:55 +0000

Purge is an online-only computer game. It is a hybrid Role-Playing-Game / First-Person-Shooter set in the near future accounting a war between the diametrically opposed forces of science-fiction (the Order) and fantasy (the Chosen). Technology... Read more...

Open, closed source security about equal?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:51:09 +0000

Thanks Borg77 from our BPN Forum Proprietary programs should mathematically be as secure as those developed under the open-source model, a Cambridge University researcher argued in a paper presented Thursday at... Read more...

MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source

Tue, 21 May 2002 08:24:06 +0000

It just gets better! "A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan.... Read more...

MS applied closed fist to Palm?

Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:20:55 +0000

Yet another update from the courts... Microsoft was close to sharing a key programming tool after learning that Palm Inc. was participating in the antitrust case against the software giant, an... Read more...

ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0 Beta Closed

Wed, 06 Mar 2002 02:14:07 +0000

Zone Labs has closed the ZoneAlarm® Pro 3.0 beta testing. The entire ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0 team would like to extend a hearty thank you for your enthusiasm and excellent testing. Your feedback has... Read more...

Chinese students angry over a closed forum

Wed, 05 Sep 2001 19:59:10 +0000

I found this interesting article while browsing through Yahoo!: One of China's hottest college Internet bulletin boards has been shut down after students posted articles about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, officials and students said... Read more...