{"id":176050,"date":"2025-09-23T12:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2143537"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:52:28","slug":"playstation-vita-project-cancelled-in-wake-of-store-shutdown-confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/playstation-vita-project-cancelled-in-wake-of-store-shutdown-confirmation\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Vita project cancelled in wake of store shutdown confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/playstation-vita-project-cancelled-in-wake-of-store-shutdown-confirmation.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twin Breaker studio Lillymo Games has had to abandon its plans to release a project for PlayStation Vita in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-03-29-sony-confirms-ps3-psp-and-vita-digital-stores-closing-for-good-this-summer\">Sony&#8217;s confirmation it will shutter the handheld&#8217;s online store on 27th August<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The game is still at least six months from release &#8211; and so will simply not have time to launch before Sony closes the Vita store in August, following similar closures of the PS3 and PSP stores on 2nd July.<\/p>\n<p>Lillymo Games posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LillymoGames\/status\/1376615653696765960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> of discovering the news at the same time as it was revealed publicly:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-03-31-playstation-vita-developers-forced-to-cancel-games-in-wake-of-store-shutdown-confirmation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-03-31-playstation-vita-developers-forced-to-cancel-games-in-wake-of-store-shutdown-confirmation\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twin Breaker studio Lillymo Games has had to abandon its plans to release a project for PlayStation Vita in the wake of Sony&#8217;s confirmation it will shutter the handheld&#8217;s online store on 27th August. The game is still at least six months from release &#8211; and so will simply not have time to launch before Sony closes the Vita store in August, following similar closures of the PS3 and PSP stores on 2nd July. Lillymo Games posted on Twitter of discovering the news at the same time as it was revealed publicly: Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PlayStation Vita project cancelled in wake of store shutdown confirmation | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Twin Breaker studio Lillymo Games has had to abandon its plans to release a project for PlayStation Vita in the wake of Sony&#039;s confirmation it will\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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