In an EA blog post , the publisher has stressed that it is "still investigating" solutions to keep certain fan favourites online, in the face of "significant technical hurdles."

"We know some of these games are still fan favorites, including Battlefield 2, Battlefield 1942, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Command & Conquer games," reads the post. "We are still investigating community-supported options to preserve online functionality for these titles, such as multiplayer. Significant technical hurdles remain, and at this time we don’t have anything to announce."The original story is below.

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Battlefield 1942 for PC and Mac (including The Road to Rome and Secret Weapons of WW2 expansions)

Battlefield 2 for PC (including Special Forces expansion)

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat for PlayStation 2

Battlefield 2142 for PC and Mac (including Northern Strike expansion)

Battlefield Vietnam for PC

Bejeweled (r) 2 for the Wii

Bulletstorm for PlayStation 3

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars for PC and Mac (including Kane's Wrath expansion)

Command & Conquer: Generals for PC and Mac (including Zero Hour expansion)

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 for PC and Mac

Crysis 2 for PC

Crysis for PC

Crysis Wars for PC

Dracula - Undead Awakening for the Wii

Dragon Sakura for Nintendo DS

EA Sports 06 for PC

F1 2002 for PC

FIFA Soccer 08 (KOR) for the Wii

FIFA Soccer 08 for Nintendo DS

FIFA Soccer 09 for Nintendo DS

FIFA Soccer 10 for Nintendo DS

FIFA Street 3 for Nintendo DS

Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers for PlayStation 2

Global Operations for PC

GREEN DAY: ROCK BAND for the Wii

James Bond: Nightfire for PC

Madden NFL 08 for Nintendo DS

Madden NFL 09 for Nintendo DS

Master of Orion III for PC

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for PC and Mac (including Breakthrough and Spearhead expansions)

MySims Party for Wii

MySims Racing for Nintendo DS

MySims SkyHeroes for the Wii and DS

NASCAR Sim Racing for PC

NASCAR Thunder 2003 for PC

NASCAR Thunder 2004 for PC

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 for PC

Need for Speed: ProStreet for Nintendo DS

Need for Speed: Undercover for Nintendo DS

Neverwinter Nights 2 for PC and Mac

Neverwinter Nights for PC, Mac and Linux (including Hordes of the Underdark and Shadows of Undrentide expansions)

SimCity Creator for Wii

Skate It for Nintendo DS

Sneezies for the Wii

Spore Creatures for Nintendo DS

Spore Hero Arena for Nintendo DS

Star Wars: Battlefront for PC and PlayStation 2

Star Wars: Battlefront II for PC and PlayStation 2

THE BEATLES: ROCK BAND for the Wii

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for Nintendo DS

EA will shut down online support for 50 of its older games on June 30, including Battlefield 2 for PC, Crysis 2 for PC and several installments in the FIFA and Command & Conquer series.We've known for a while that many of these games were at risk of being taken offline due the upcoming shutdown of Glu's GameSpy multiplayer servers. It was recently revealed that Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will survive the shutdown thanks to third-party support , but some were simply getting a little too long in the tooth to be worth fighting for."The decisions to retire older EA games are never easy," reads an update on EA's website. "The development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into these games almost as much as the customers playing them and it is hard to see one retired. But as games get replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the older games dwindles to a level -- typically fewer than 1% of all peak online players across all EA titles -- where it’s no longer feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these games up and running."We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99% of customers playing our more popular games. We hope you have gotten many hours of enjoyment out of the games and we appreciate your ongoing patronage."The full list of affected games can be found below.

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