10 Popular Video Games You Can't Play Anymore

5. Blur

Vehicular combat racer, Blur, was released by British studio Bizarre Creations in 2010 and was published by Activision, who you’re going to have some beef with by the end of this video because it’s far from the first great game they shut down.

Integrating arcade-style handling mechanisms with real world vehicles and locations, players would collect both offensive and defensive power ups with the intention of taking out your racing competitors and heading to the front of the pack. Blur featured both a career mode and a multiplayer mode that supported split screen for up to four players or online for up to 20 players. Despite picking up plenty of highly positive reviews praising Blur’s exhilarating multiplayer component, in particular, Activision shut the game down alongside studio Bizarre Creations less than a year after it came out in February of 2011. The publisher claimed Blur didn’t find a commercial audience and couldn’t crack the current state of the racing genre.

Unfortunately for fans, it’s likely that the combination of the game’s commercial failure and the cost of licensing IP to real vehicles put the final nails in the coffin.