Major Nelson has posted the upcoming release schedule for XBL Arcade and tossed in there are some rather nice sales as well.
There’s also dates for the Gears of War 3 beta in there, as well as Deals of the Week, Games on Demand, and Avatar goodies.
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.
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Over the years, the Xbox 360 has seen a few revamps for their dashboard. Here's a look at how much has changed over the six years.
It really is amazing how MS transformed the dash from the old (and aged) blades to what we have now. The new dash is by far the best one I have used.
All the new features and apps, wasn't something I expected when I jumped on the Xbox 360 platform way back when.
It didn't evolve at all. It only got worse over time. The first dashboard with the blades was the best one as it was easy & quick to navigate and you had 1 ad tops (which at the time was usually for games or game events like playing the mystery gamer). Now it's hard to find anything but ads on the thing.
A LOT of people still prefer the blade dashboard IDK why. I preferably liked the one before our current one.
I would call that substantial. It is a lot of content to choose from.
This is the most Ive ever seen on sale.
I love shadow complex, for 600pts thats awesome. Limbo, castle crashers and Trials HD for 600pts on the 15th is pretty good deals. I may get castle crashers.
And they aslo have some sweet game like perfect dark and Braid on sale for $5 for the week.
I lol'd @ "sales" because I thought of it as something only the 360 fanbase would play.
Shadow Complex is one of my favorite xbl games, I want to check out the Gears beta.
I might finally pick up Limbo. I am always really wanted to play it, 1200 points has just been hefty is all. But everyone says it is great so think I will get it for 600.