While it’s nothing like losing the entire Xbox 360 Marketplace, Xbox Game Studios announced late last week that another Xbox offering will soon be retired. The “Next Generation” of Avatars first made available on Xbox One in 2018 will become inaccessible starting January 9th, 2025. Ironically, the original Xbox 360 Avatars from a decade earlier
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“Microsoft Studios (2019: known as Xbox Game Studios) is the video game production wing for Microsoft, responsible for the development and publishing of games for the Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Games for Windows, Steam, Windows Store, and Windows Phone platforms. They were established in 2002 as Microsoft Game Studios to coincide with the already released Xbox, before being re-branded in 2011. The subsidiary had also been known as Microsoft Game Division and simply Microsoft Games before 2002. Microsoft Studios develops and publishes games in conjunction with first and third party development studios under their publishing label.”
In-Game message reveals that The Elder Scrolls: Legends will shut down on January 30th
A new in-game announcement began appearing earlier this week for players of The Elder Scrolls: Legends confirming that the game will be permanently shut down on January 30th, 2025. Although Bethesda has yet to make an official statement outside of the game, the free-to-play deck builder was also removed from Steam yesterday on November 1st.
Original Age of Empires III delisted on Steam, multiplayer shutdown Oct. 30th
Xbox Game Studios announced earlier this week that the original digital release of Age of Empires III on Steam had been delisted. Its multiplayer services — which were already impacted by its aging codebase in 2021 — are sticking around a little bit longer until October 30th (10am PST). From today, Age of Empires III
Shawn’s very personal list of Xbox 360 Picks
Umm, better late than never I guess? A friend of mine asked for a list of my Xbox 360 recommendations along the lines of my very personal PlayStation Store picks from 2021. So I had a look back at my Xbox history early yesterday morning as I was sitting in a hospital bed recovering once
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The final Xbox 360 price reduction update underwhelms, but hey, there’s hoodies [UPDATE]
[UPDATE 07/24/24] Thanks to everyone in the comments for pointing out some last minute additions and freebies that I forgot they gave away years ago! Have the links again anyways [UPDATE 07/18/24] Although they promised no more updates they did come back to yank one more game from the list: BLACK is no longer on
Another look at the Xbox 360’s soon-to-be-lost exclusives
Randomised Gaming Riven is back with another look at the Xbox 360 Marketplace as we are now just two weeks away from the announced closure of the service. The 70-minute video opens with another round of updates detailing issues and sticking points from Riven and his community before spending around a minute each on nearly
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90 more discounted Xbox 360 titles added ahead of Marketplace shut down [UPDATE 3: MORE Sales Up!]
[UPDATE 07/12/24] The Xbox Wire page was updated on July 10th with a correction that “we removed Space Invaders Infinity Gene from the lists below. It was incorrectly included”. It was updated again on July 12th with another correction “we removed Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 from the lists below — it was included in error”.
Forza Horizon 4 to be delisted on December 15th, DLC removed today, Festival Playlist changes detailed
Playground Games and Xbox Studios made a surprising but not entirely unexpected announcement earlier today detailing their plans to remove Forza Horizon 4 from sale on Xbox and Steam, and from Xbox Game Pass this winter on December 15th. While these kinds of announcements for the series have become commonplace, what caught players by surprise
Another warning about Xbox 360 Marketplace content as we prepare for Round Two of discounts
As we are on the eve of Microsoft’s next promised round of Xbox 360 discounts I thought this video by Randomised Gaming could serve as yet another warning if you’re out there trying to scoop up games and content. Their latest on the topic centers around Rabbids Invasion: The Interactive TV Show which is one
Redfall to receive previously canned “offline” update after all
As if the studio closures that Microsoft announced at the beginning of the month weren’t bad enough, the news that Redfall would barely miss a final expansion that would bring long-promised single-player features just felt like an extra layer of disappointment. Although Arkane Austin is still being shut down the game’s social media accounts did
Those mysterious Xbox 360 discounts are actually permanent price reductions, and more are incoming!
Good news on those surprise Xbox 360 sales we reported on yesterday, they aren’t a glitch. The Xbox Wire news feed was updated on Tuesday with a post formally announcing the discounts that eagle-eyed readers had spotted days earlier. And best of all, these discounted prices aren’t temporary: Microsoft has been working with publishers to
Redfall poised for a shorter lifespan as Xbox announces closure of four former Bethesda studios
An email sent to the staff of several Bethesda studios by Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios and shown to IGN today, has confirmed the closure and reorganization of the studios and signaled a shorter future for a 2023 release. The major news for the purposes of this site relates to Arkane Austin, creators