{"id":18603,"date":"2018-04-27T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317193"},"modified":"2018-04-27T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:36:00","slug":"super-monday-night-combat-shutting-down-due-to-new-data-protection-regs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/27\/super-monday-night-combat-shutting-down-due-to-new-data-protection-regs\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Monday Night Combat shutting down due to new data protection regs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber Entertainment is <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/104700\/announcements\/detail\/1661142811548355195\">shutting down its free-to-play arena battler<\/a>\u00a0<em>Super Monday Night Combat<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The studio hasn&#8217;t given specifics as to why the game will be shutting down aside from noting that the decision comes as a result of\u00a0the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugdpr.org\">European Union General Data Protection Regulation<\/a> (GDPR) guidelines, which are coming into effect on May 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will remain active through til May 23, at which point the servers will be taken down and the title officially laid to rest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Uber is encouraging fans to cram in matches while they can, and has gifted players $10,000 of in-game currency so they can make the most of the multiplayer shooter&#8217;s final days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to thank all of you for your support of <em>Super Monday Night Combat<\/em>,&#8221; wrote the developers in a short post. &#8220;Your passion is what made this game a pleasure to work on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber Entertainment is shutting down its free-to-play arena battler\u00a0Super Monday Night Combat.\u00a0 The studio hasn&#8217;t given specifics as to why the game will be shutting down aside from noting that the decision comes as a result of\u00a0the new European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) guidelines, which are coming into effect on May 25.\u00a0 It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}