Another platform’s digital store is heading for the graveyard, but this time, there’s still plenty of time to prepare for the farewell. However, many games are only available there, so that they could disappear.
Microsoft has announced that from July 29, it will no longer be possible to buy games, DLC, and other entertainment content from the Xbox 360 Marketplace on console and browser. You can still buy backwards compatibility titles on Xbox One, Xbox Series, and Xbox.com, and you can still download and play games you already own on X360. By the way, this November will mark 18 years since the launch of Xbox 360, and the Microsoft Movies & TV app will also be shut down when the digital store closes (but not on Xbox One, Xbox Series, or Windows 10/11).
After the store closes, multiplayer titles will continue to work if their servers are active, and you can still upload your saves to the cloud to play on the newer consoles, too. A list of BC titles can be found here, and a Q&A about the Xbox 360 Marketplace closure can be found here. At least the Redmond-based company didn’t move by giving us a month or two to prepare.
Meanwhile, VGC has compiled a list of games that are disappearing: according to the site, more than 220 titles are going to be gone unless someone buys, downloads and archives them so that they can at least be emulated (the Xenia emulator is in good condition, so you can easily play X360 titles on a sufficiently powerful PC). Let’s look at the list of digital-only titles released for Xbox 360:
0D Beat Drop, 10 Frame Bowling (Kinect), 1942: Joint Strike, 3 Point Contest (Kinect), Abyss Odyssey, Alien Breed Episode 1, Alien Breed 2: Assault, Alien Breed 3: Descent, Alien Rage, Alien Spidy, Amy, Ancients of Ooga, Anna: Extended Edition, Arkadian Warriors, Assault Heroes, Avatar FameStars, Awesomenauts, Backbreaker Vengeance, Bastion, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, Batman: The Telltale Series, Battle Academy, Battlezone, Bejeweled Blitz Live, Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Black Knight Sword, Blade Kitten, Blazing Birds, Bloody Good Time, The Bluecoats: North vs South, Bomberman Live, Boogie Bunnies, Boxing Fight (Kinect), The Bridge, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Bubble Bobble Neo!, Burnout Crash!, Call of Duty Classic, Capsized, CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars, Charlie Murder, Child of Light, Choplifter HD, Cloudberry Kingdom, Cobalt, Constant C, Contrast, Crazy Machines Elements, CrazyMouse, Crimson Alliance, Crimson Dragon (Kinect), Darkstalkers Resurrection, Darts vs Zombies (Kinect), Deadliest Warrior: Battlegrounds, Deadlight, Death Tank, Deep Black: Episode 1, Defenders of Ardania, Defense Technica, Destination: Arcade, Diabolical Pitch (Kinect), The Dishwasher, The Dishwasher: VS, Dogfight 1942, Dollar Dash, Double Dragon II, Duke Nukem 3D, Dungeon Defenders, Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Dustforce, Ecco the Dolphin, Exit, Exit 2, The Fancy Pants Adventures, Fatal Fury Special, Fez, Field Goal Contest (Kinect), Final Exam, Fire Pro Wrestling, Fireburst, Freefall Racers (Kinect), Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition, Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight, Fruit Ninja Kinect (Kinect), Full House Poker, Fusion: Genesis, Gel, Geon, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, Goosebumps: The Game, Gotham City Impostors, Guilty Gear XX ACore Plus, Guncraft: Blocked and Loaded, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm, Haunt (Kinect), Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit, Hexodius, Home Run Stars (Kinect), How to Survive, Hunter’s Trophy 2: America, Hunter’s Trophy 2: Australia, Hybrid, Ion Assault, Jam Live Music Arcade, Kinect Party – Base Game (Kinect), Kinect Sports Gems (Kinect), Leedmees (Kinect), Life is Strange, LocoCycle, Lucidity, Magic 2015, Mark of the Ninja, Marvel Puzzle Quest, Masquerade, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, Meteos Wars, MicroBot, Mighty No 9, Minesweeper Flags, Mini Ninjas Adventures (Kinect), Mortal Kombat Arcade, Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise, NCAA Basketball: March Madness Edition, Panzer General, The Path of Go, Penalty Saver (Kinect), Penny Arcade (Episode 1), Penny Arcade (Episode 2), Pinball FX2, Ping Pong (Kinect), Prison Architect: Xbox 360 Edition, Prize Driver (Kinect), Puzzle Arcade, Puzzle Bobble Live, Puzzle Chronicles, RBI Baseball 14, Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure!, The Raven, Raystorm HD, Reaction Rally (Kinect), Red Johnson’s Chronicles, Rekoil: Liberator, Renegade Ops, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 0, Rez HD, Risk, Risk: Urban Assault, Rocket Riot, RocketBowl, Rotastic, Rush’n Attack, Rush’n Attack: Ex-Patriot, Sanctum 2, Scene It? Movie Night, Schizoid, Sea Life Safari, Sega Vintage Collection: ToeJam & Earl, Ski Race (Kinect), Skulls of the Shogun, South Park: Let’s Go Tower Defense Play!, South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge, Space Channel 5 Part 2, Space Invaders Extreme, Spare Parts, Spyglass Board Games, Star Raiders, State of Decay, Storm, Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting, Street Fighter III: Online Edition, Strider, Special Forces Team X, Super Time Force, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Syberia 2, Takedown: Red Sabre, Tales from the Borderlands, Tempest, Things on Wheels, TiQal, TNT Racers, TotemBall, Track & Field, Trials Fusion, Trivial Pursuit Live, Tron, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Vessel, Vigilante 8 Arcade, Voodoo Dice, War World, Warlords (2008), Warp, Watchmen, Watchmen Part 2, Way of the Dogg, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Wik: Fable of Souls, Wing Commander Arena, Wits & Wagers, The Wolf Among Us, Worms, Worms 2: Armageddon, Worms Revolution, Worms: Ultimate Mayhem, Wreckateer (Kinect), Wrecked: Revenge Revisited, Xevious, Yar’s Revenge, Yie Ar King-Fu, Yo-Ho Kablammo, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Decade Duels Plus, Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium Duels, Zeit 2, Zeno Clash UE, Zeno Clash 2, Zombie Driver HD, Zombie Wranglers.
Many are multiplatform, and some are also released in physical collections (such as the Worms games), so the list is not X360-exclusive, digital-only titles.
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