However, the Yahoo! Games service is still available on Yahoo! Japan, along with Yahoo! Auctions. It was then announced by Yahoo! that its Games section would be dissolved completely on May 13, 2016. Yahoo! announced that 'changes in supporting technologies and increased security requirements for our own Yahoo! web pages, made it impossible to keep the games running safely and securely'. The majority of Yahoo! Games was closed down on Maand the balance was closed on February 9, 2016. Yahoo! Games was a section of the Yahoo! website, launched on March 31, 1998, in which Yahoo! users could play games either with other users or by themselves.