Battlefield Bad Company 1 and 2 and Battlefield 1943 are gone forever: Electronic Arts has announced that it will end its online services in December, and as a result will no longer be available from all digital stores on April 28.

Those of you with fresh memories may recall that we told you about 42 minutes ago that Mirror's Edge would also be delisted. We were wrong: it was EA's mistake, not ours, and Mirror's Edge has not been delisted, at least not yet.

All the games to be delisted are older for this kind of thing: Battlefield: Battlefield: Bad Company was released in 2008, Battlefield 1943 in 2009, and Bad Company 2 in 2010. But they were outstanding games at the time. Bad Company 2 won PC Gamer UK's Shooter of the Year award in 2010 (there were separate UK and US teams at the time), and the Vietnam DLC was fantastic. (The original Bad Company and Battlefield 1943 were console-only software.)

But there is no escaping the relentless march of time. While these titles hold a special place in our hearts, we look forward to creating new memories with you as we shift our focus to the current and future Battlefield experience," EA said.

The good news is that if you have Bad Company 2, you can play the campaign offline. The problem is that if you don't have Bad Company 2, you won't be able to play it as of April 28, unless you get a key, preferably from a less sketchy reseller. As far as I'm concerned, it's a puzzling decision: Bad Company 2 has a single-player campaign, so why stop selling it when you can still play it?" Add a note to the store listing that the online component no longer works, permanently discount the price by 20%, and let people play! Let people play with it. But I am not a corporate bigwig, and such business decisions seem beyond my limited understanding of how the world works.

In a repeat of the original, I looked back fondly on "Mirror's Edge." Mirror's Edge was a great game that, despite its flaws, tried something genuinely different and almost succeeded: despite its antiquity, the game remains the "undisputed queen of parkour." There's no need to say that now. In fact, this game is not going away. Instead, I'm not sure how you could make such a mistake, but let's just say that if for no other reason than the fact that this game is strictly a single player game, it is definitely the right decision to overturn it. The leaderboard is the only part of the game affected by the December server outage, and let's be honest: who cares?

If you don't have Mirror's Edge yet and you want it, now is a good time to get it: it's on sale for $5/£4.50/€5, 75% off the regular price in the Steam Spring Sale.