Just over a year after they launched the free to play Vita exclusive game ‘Destiny of Spirits,’ Sony has announced that they will be ending all online support for it come June 30. This would be bad news no matter how you spin it in any scenario, but when you consider that the game is online only, it means that, just after a year from its original launch, the game will become effectively unplayable.

This means that any content in the game, including content that players have paid for, will be unusable and inaccessible from that point on; any unused Destiny Orbs will also expire. Basically, it means that you won’t be able to use the services you might have paid for after a period of support of just one year.

Normally, this would be where I would make a joke about Sony dropping support for all things Vita one by one, but this is not something I can joke about, this is a worrying trend (especially as the industry slowly moves to the model of games as always connected services), and I fear that, if this trend goes unchecked, we may be in for a very consumer abusive future. For Sony, this is especially damning, in light of the news that they would be ending support for MLB 14: The Show on June 30 as well- similarly, just a little over a year after that game originally launched.

We can hope that enough people make a noise about this that Sony will sit up and take notice, but honestly, I don’t think that will happen, especially given this game’s lower playerbase.

To encourage players to download and play the game now, Sony has taken this opportunity to offer a Knack themed rare spirit summon to players for a limited time- the summon won’t be offered forever, so if players want to add it to their collections, they will have to play the game sooner rather than later. Of course, it’s entirely possible, especially given how mediocre of a game Knack ultimately was, that no one will really particularly care to have Knack in their collection of spirits at all.

Nonetheless, the game looks interesting- it looks like an interesting, modern day twist on the Pokemon formula, and that can only be a good thing. Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage of the title.

Sony revealed its latest PlayStation Vita title from Q Entertainment, the minds which brought us titles like Ninety Nine Nights and the Lumines series, namely Destiny of Spirits. A trailer for the game has since been released for the same, and reveals Spirits is a free to play RPG with a social bent. It is being developed by Studio Japan, which is owned by Sony. Check out the screenshots below.

Destiny of Spirits has been described as “location-based strategy game… where players from around the world work cooperatively in turn-based action to battle fierce bosses to unlock an expansive virtual world.

“Using location technology, the game places players on a global map, creating a hyper-social experience, where the player is connected to and working with others collectively to progress and unlock powerful new Spirits that can be unleashed during combat to defeat enemies.”

The game will be out sometime in 2013 for the Vita.

Developed by Japan Studio and Q Entertainment. As of now, there’s not much information known about the game, other than the fact this was the “special PS Vita worldwide reveal” being hyped by Geoff Keighley earlier today. Special enough to turn the PlayStation Vita’s performance around? We’ll see about that.

The only thing you really need to know is that Q Entertainment had a hand in the highly addictive Lumines series along with Rez HD and the somewhat abysmal Ninety Nine Nights series for Microsoft’s consoles. We don’t hold it against them (too much), and we can’t wait to see what Destiny of Spirits holds in store for fans of the PlayStation Vita.

Stay tuned for more updates and stories from E3 2013.

Well, Bungie responded to the Destiny of Spirits image, and stated to IGN that the image was fake. The first clue was the old Bungie logo used at the bottom. The developer stated that “when we actually announce something, we’ll use our current logo.”

As for Destiny of Spirits, the game has no relation at all to Bungie’s Destiny. It is owned by Sony and shares no affiliation whatsoever to Bungie’s project.

Better luck next time Internet.

Bungie’s Destiny is slated to release in 2014 for current and next gen consoles, with some new detailed alluded to on May 21st when Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox.

Sony has trademarked something called “Destiny of Spirits”. The United States Patent & Trademark office reveals that it’s a “computer game software; electronic game software for handheld electronic devices; video game software.”

The trademark was filed on March 26. Could it be a PS4 game? Or even a launch title for the system? That seems unlikely because if they trademarked it now presumably it’s not even in development, but at this stage we can’t really say anything concrete.

Sony has yet to respond to this but we will update you once they do. As the next gen looms, plenty of companies have been filing trademarks with the USPTO. Most of them are related to computer game software so maybe E3 will be the event where they will be officially revealed.

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Thanks, Gamespot.