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star-wars-galaxies-refuses-to-die-the-emulator-community-13-years-after-shutdown.md

Star Wars Galaxies launched in 2003 and was shut down by Sony Online Entertainment on December 15, 2011 — the…

the-day-club-penguin-died-how-a-community-of-200-million-refused-to-let-go.md

On March 29, 2017, Disney pulled the plug on Club Penguin, the beloved virtual world that had been a childhood…