WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- Anyone who paid $99.99 for the All-Star Edition of NBA 2K25 has until December 31 before the game's online servers go dark, only two years after release. According to an announcement from Rep. Ritchie Torres, the game comes off digital stores on October 30.

On Thursday the New York Democrat said he will introduce the Power To The Players Act, which would direct the Federal Trade Commission to write rules so that buying a video game gives the buyer ownership rather than a license to play. Games with online features would have to offer an offline mode before the servers behind them are switched off. It lands as Sony argues, in a California class action over digital game ownership, that reasonable consumers already kn...