End of an era: Xbox 360 Store goes offline soon, taking hundreds of games with it

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After 18 years, the Xbox 360 Retailer is shutting down. However thankfully, you gained’t have to fret about your bought video games.

The time of virtually each recreation (besides perhaps Skyrim) is over sooner or later: multiplayer servers are shut down, the availability of updates is stopped and the title disappears from store cabinets and typically outlets.

Now plainly the time has additionally come for fairly a couple of Xbox video games: The Xbox 360 Retailer is closing its doorways subsequent yr, making it tougher and even not possible for a lot of players to make a brand new buy.

What’s going to occur to the Retailer?

As introduced on the official (Xbox website) the Xbox 360 Market will shut its doorways endlessly on 29 July 2024, after greater than 18 years. From then on, it should not be attainable to buy new video games, expansions or different content material there. As well as, the Microsoft Films & TV app can even not work on the Xbox 360.

This implies it should not be attainable to buy quite a lot of video games simply or in any respect. Solely about (600 of over 2,000 games) for the Xbox 360, that are additionally suitable with the consoles of youthful generations, can nonetheless be bought through their shops. By the way in which, we present you what new video games are presently accessible for PC and consoles right here:

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What about my video games?

You don’t have to fret about video games, expansions or movies you’ve already purchased. You’ll be able to proceed to play them and likewise obtain them once more you probably have uninstalled them. Microsoft says it should proceed to help gaming on the Xbox 360 for the foreseeable future.

Multiplayer video games can even proceed to work whatever the closure of the shop. Right here, the whole lot is dependent upon the respective writer who operates the servers.

Content material bought within the Films & TV app will stay in your library and might nonetheless be watched should you set up the app on a PC with Home windows 10 or 11, an Xbox One or Xbox Collection X/S.

Have you ever performed on the time of the Xbox 360? What was your favorite recreation again then and what are your finest reminiscences of the titles from the 2000s? Is your Xbox from again then (should you personal one) gathering mud within the attic, or do you even nonetheless play with the outdated console once in a while? Be happy to write down us your opinions and ideas within the feedback!