Despite the controversy, much media attention and a bestseller status in the Netherlands and Belgium,[2] the game failed to find similar success in other markets.

[3] In 2011 DarXabre - still led by Garber – made a brief and unsuccessful comeback as a developer of apps for the iPhone and iPad.

In 2011 it released two app games for iOS: Banana Banzai[4] (a colorful platform game) and Das Haus Anubis - Die Rache der Spinx (based on the children's series House of Anubis and developed for MTV Networks Germany).

The Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) called Hooligans: Storm Over Europe 'unacceptable' and wanted to stop the release of the game in The Netherlands.

[8][9] MicroMouse, a Japanese software developer, released the game under the shorter title Hooligans in 2002 in Japan.