Laser Squad Nemesis, the best online strategy game ever, is dead. A month ago it had around 30 players. The site is now shut down and according to the forums is almost certainly gone forever.
A brief history:
Will and Julian Gollop invented a game called Laser Squad for the ZX Spectrum. Your band of men used time units to move about, recover stuff and shoot at the enemy. They refined the concept for the game UFO:Enemy Unknown, the first and best of the XCom games. Laser squad Nemesis was the on-line version with players competing with against real people playing one of 4 different races in turn-based games. It was being constantly tweaked so the game-play was perfect. It was fun, simple to learn but massively hard to master, and exciting and had a great community, but it failed.
Laser squad never really advertised anywhere. They stopped developing the game. The price was too high for what it was.
Could Conquer Club ever shrivel up and disappear?
Anybody else 'lost' a game?
