As with everything at Xbox Live Nation, the programming staff always strive to enhance our services and offer a unique experience to our user base as well as continue to appeal to an ever-broadening demographic. With that ideal in mind, XLN is proud to announce that the integration with the Xbox.com and Xbox Live Marketplace data is complete.
With the new Xbox Live Nation Marketplace integration, users can find a variety of data which would normally only be accessible through either their Xbox Dashboard or via the new and improved Xbox.com.
On July 29, 2024, Xbox will stop supporting the ability to purchase new games, DLC, and other entertainment content from the Xbox 360 Store on the console and the Xbox 360 Marketplace. This change will not affect your ability to play Xbox 360 games or DLC you have already purchased.
Curious to see if people will put the same energy reacting to this move as they did when Sony tried to close the PS3 / Vita stores.
End of an era...
I still use my 360 as it has several games installed that aren't available to get on the modern systems. Outrun online, afterburner climax, renegade ops, the tmnt games... too many to just unplug it.
Everything else that is bc on newer I already downloaded to my 4tb external.
And with that news sonic 06 just became the most valuable game in my collection
Really sad day for gamers and game preservation. Bozo Jim Ryan tried to pull a fast one on us like this back in 2021 and we kept the PS3 store up. It's a shame that with MS' move that many digital only titles, DLC packs, themes, avatars, etc. will be lost to time. There are a lot of great 360 games that did not make it to the backwards compatibility program and are not playable on Series consoles. Hopefully preservationists will get busy and help store this content for future retention. Time to hop on the 360 store and grab some games before they are gone forever.
Physical 360/PS3 discs are a wise investment in 2023. I imagine certain 360 games will spike on this news.
If you are interested in helping the preservation of games, I recommend checking out https://www.preservegames.o... ( https://discord.gg/NFhbdwEY... or r/OnlinePreservation over on Reddit. There are many other preservation projects out there as well.
Remember when people were up in arms over Sony attempting this?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
With the new Xbox originals backwards compatibility initiative, here are 35 original xbox games we hope make their return.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out mainly due to the use of licensed content back then has either expired or the companies have gone belly up and therefor no license renewal is possible.
Case in point, Sega no longer has the Ferrari license so the likeliness of something like outrun 2 coming the bc is pretty slim. I can hope but it isnt going to make it happen. But i know my og xb still works (for now) and my copy still plays on that as well as the 360 so if Outrun does not get a fresh coat of bc paint I can still race the way it was intended.
Perusing their list, I realize I own half of those games in definitive editions in my Steam library already. That said, they should really see about getting the old From Software games on there. They had some solid IP that hasn't seen the light of day in a long while.
James writes "Every Street United wanted to bring street football to a worldwide audience, choosing to launch itself as an Xbox Originals TV show, with full viewer interaction around the time of the World Cup in Brazil. Throw a couple of world class, well known footballers into the mix too and surely you’re onto a winner?"
I was looking forward to Every Street United but only managed to sit through about 15 minutes of the first episode before getting bored.
Seriously disappointed with the interactive features on offer too. Could have made so much more of it.