Konami introduced on Sunday that it’s briefly eradicating Steel Gear Stable 2, Steel Gear Stable 3, and any collections that embrace these video games from digital shops on Monday as a result of the corporate is presently engaged on renewing the licenses for choose historic archive footage used in-game. Konami plans to make the video games out there for buy once more sooner or later.

The corporate is briefly eradicating the next:

• Steel Gear Stable 2: Sons of Liberty HD Version for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita
• Steel Gear Stable 3: Snake Eater HD Version for PS3 and PS Vita
• Steel Gear Stable HD Version for PS3
• Steel Gear Stable HD Assortment for PS Vita and PlayStation Now
• Steel Gear Stable HD Version: 2 & 3 for Xbox 360
• Steel Gear Stable: Snake Eater 3D for Nintendo 3DS
• Steel Gear Stable 2: Substance for PC by way of GOG.com
• Steel Gear Stable 2 HD for NVIDIA Protect TV
• Steel Gear Stable 3 HD for NVIDIA Protect TV

A lot of the video games within the Steel Gear Stable sequence observe Stable Snake, a particular forces operative who slowly turns into concerned in a world conspiracy. The primary recreation within the sequence, launched in 1998 on the PlayStation, sees him neutralizing a terrorist risk from a renegade particular forces unit known as Foxhound, who’ve taken hostages and seized management of a nuclear launch facility in Alaska.

Steel Gear Stable 2: Sons of Liberty initially launched for PlayStation 2 in November 2001.

Kojima’s final Steel Gear title with Konami, Steel Gear Stable V: The Phantom Ache, shipped for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC in September 2015. Konami bought greater than six million copies of the sport.

Steel Gear Survive is the primary Steel Gear console recreation to be introduced since Kojima’s departure from Konami. The sport launched for PS4, Xbox One, and PC in February 2017.

Sources: Konami, IGN (Matt Purslow)