Editing Bleem! (section)

===Closure of Bleem!===
Although Sony ultimately did not win any of its lawsuits against them, Bleem! had to shut down when the huge court costs became too much for the small company to handle. Bleem! shut down in November 2001,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bramwell |first1=Tom |title=Game Over for bleem |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/article_31440 |website=[[Eurogamer]] |publisher=[[Future plc]] |access-date=29 December 2021 |location=[[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] |language=en |date=19 November 2001}}</ref> the same year Sega announced that they would discontinue the Dreamcast in North America. Bleem! closed their website, with only an image on their front page showing [[Sonic the Hedgehog (character)|Sonic the Hedgehog]] tearfully holding a flower next to a Bleem! gravestone. However, the image was later altered and Sonic was removed, ironically to avoid a lawsuit from Sega.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://seganerds.com/2015/05/19/whatever-happened-bleemcast/|title=Whatever happened to 'Bleemcast'? &#124; SEGA Nerds|date=19 May 2015}}</ref> Sega themselves had also been indirectly involved in the obstruction of Bleemcast! by the way of the removal of support for the unpopular (for Sega's intended use) MIL-CD format on later Dreamcast models.<ref name=planetdc/>