Game Platforms & Services
Online game services, storefronts and networks that went offline: cloud gaming, console shops, matchmaking and chat.
9 projects
Google Stadia
The future of gaming, cancelled
2019–2023
Game Platforms & Services
Wii Shop Channel
Nintendo's first online store, the Virtual Console and WiiWare behind an elevator-music jingle, closed after twelve years
2006–2019
Game Platforms & Services
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Xbox Live Indie Games
The Xbox 360 store where anyone with $99 and XNA could sell a game, from Community Games in 2008 to the last day in October 2017
2008–2017
Game Platforms & Services
Xfire
The gamer's buddy list
2004–2015
Game Platforms & Services
OnLive
Cloud gaming, a decade too early
2010–2015
Game Platforms & Services
PlayStation Home
Sony's empty metaverse, fifteen years early
2008–2015
Game Platforms & Services
GameSpy
The middleware that ran multiplayer, then took it away
1996–2014
Game Platforms & Services
Satellaview
Nintendo's satellite modem for the Super Famicom, live-broadcast Zelda and F-Zero from a Tokyo radio station, off air in 2000
1995–2000
Game Platforms & Services
Sega Channel
Genesis games over cable TV, $15 a month, in 1994
1994–1998
Game Platforms & Services