Konami announced that Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 will be removed from digital stores until licensing issues with historical archive images used in the games are resolved. Removal will take place during the day today.

“We are currently working to renew the licenses for historical archive images used in the games, so we will temporarily remove Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3 and all products that are included in these games from 8 November,” konami said. It’s an interesting detail that they left this license update until the last minute and didn’t remember it beforehand.

As the message suggests, not only these two games, but also the packages containing one of these two games will be removed from sale alt all. Here is a list of all the games affected by this decision:

PlayStation 3