Midnight Club: LA is back on Xbox after being delisted

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The 2008 Rockstar racing game returns

Midnight Club: LA
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Midnight Club: Los Angeles is once again available on the Xbox store, but we don't know why or for how long.

ResetEra users spotted the re-emergence of Rockstar's 2008 racing game, which had been delisted before appearing again without ceremony. Rockstar didn't make any big announcements about the game coming back, and it doesn't appear to have been relisted on other platforms. All the real-world licensing considerations required for the game's car manufacturers and external music make this an especially odd one to just show up again.

This is an odd turn of events, but it isn't an isolated one for Rockstar. Along with putting out surprise updates for both Max Payne 3 and LA Noire that unlocked free DLC earlier this month, Midnight Club 2 was also briefly relisted on Steam before Rockstar pulled it back down again. Rockstar's clearly doing some back catalog maintenance right now, but we'll have to wait and see whether it ends up going toward anything bigger.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.