EA Games Removes Multiple Games from iOS App Store

Among the games removed are Flight Control and Bejeweled 2.

EA has removed a number of its biggest games from the iOS App Store, including Flight Control, Mass Effect Infiltrator, and Bejeweled 2.

Because of how the App Store is structured, there is no way to retrieve these games even if you previously downloaded them, nor is it possible to transfer these games from one iOS device to another.

Here's what's gone from the App Store:

Bejeweled 2
Burnout™ CRASH!
Dead Space
Don't Fall Off
Flight Control
Flight Control Rocket
Fly With Me
Lemonade Tycoon
MASS EFFECT™ INFILTRATOR
MMA by EA SPORTS™
Need for Speed Shift
Real Racing
Sims Medieval by EA
Skate It by EA
Spore™ Creatures
Spore™ Origins
SPY Mouse

As TouchArcade notes, some of the games EA has removed were seminal titles that popularized gaming on mobile devices. Unfortunately, because they are gone from the store, they'll exist only on devices with the games still installed, and on game reviews on the internet.

The removal of these games from the Apple ecosystem shows just how fragile digital-only games can be without efforts to properly archive them.

Source: TouchArcade