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Electronic Arts continues to shut down its online multiplayer servers for games that have little online users. This week the publisher released a new list of games that will have their servers closed on March 16. Two of them are for the PC and perhaps ironically both of them come from the already shut down Pandemic Studios.

Both the PC version of the open world action game Mercenaries 2 and the action game Lord of the Rings Conquest will be unplayable online after March 16. EA says those games and the other console titles on their shutdown list "represent less than 0.3 (percent) of all peak online players across all EA titles." Mercenaries 2 was released in August 2008 and Lord of the Rings Conquest shipped in January 2009. The latter game's online shut down comes just 14 months after it was released.

The developers of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames showed us multiple ways to solve the same mission using different characters. Now they jump on to play a co-op mission to see what destruction two mercenaries can bring down. The video shows both screens simultaneously as one player runs support like getting rid of anti-air positions while the other fires from a chopper. The entire game can be played cooperatively, showing the mass destruction is always more fun when you can share it with a friend.

Download the Mercenaries 2 HD Co-op Video (349 MB)