Update (Sun 2nd Aug, 2020 08:45 BST): Microsoft has now removed nearly all of these from sale again, with just a handful remaining. It looks like they won't stick around long!
Original story (Sat 1st Aug, 2020 20:15 BST): We've got a couple of very interesting discoveries to share with you here! The first is that lots of delisted classic Xbox games are suddenly returning to the Microsoft Store, and the second is that you can now buy all of them - along with quite a few others - natively from your Xbox One, including with gift card credit.
So, what are the relisted games? It's very likely more will be discovered over the next few days (tell us below if you find any!), but at the time of writing, the following have already been spotted (via Reddit):
- Axel & Pixel
- Babel Rising
- Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Brazil only)
- Burnout Paradise
- Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013
- Cabela's Hunting Expeditions
- Deadly Premonition
- Dirt 3
- Fuel
- Greg Hastings Paintball 2
- Grid 2
- Jurassic Park: The Game
- Mad Tracks
- Midnight Club: Los Angeles
- Motocross Madness
- Operation Flashpoint: Red River
- Overlord
- Pure
- Runner 2
- Silent Hill: Downpour
- Syndicate
- Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
- Tour De France 2009
- Tour De France 2011
You can now purchase these games from the Microsoft Store without being redirected to the Xbox 360 marketplace (it looks like these versions are for Xbox One only), and the same also goes for some other classic titles, including a big batch of EA games. And yes - this also means you can buy them directly on your Xbox One with any Xbox credit you might have.
Furthermore, some free games (including this month's Xbox Games with Gold title, MX Unleashed), can now be claimed without the use of a credit card.
This isn't the first time we've seen some strange happenings with the Xbox Store in recent days - Psychonauts was temporarily made free on Wednesday, and some players have even received a free Japanese copy of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City over the past 24 hours.
Ultimately then, it looks like Microsoft is doing some work on the backend to provide more native support for purchasing original Xbox and Xbox 360 games via the Microsoft Store (possibly related to the Xbox Series X arriving soon), so hopefully buying backwards compatible titles will be much easier in the relatively near future!
Have you noticed any other delisted games return to the Microsoft Store? Let us know in the comments!
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[source reddit.com, via twitter.com]
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Still waiting for Alpha Protocol to come back to the store. They own Obsidian so i don't see what the issue is.
Update: I've just noticed another batch of EA Xbox 360 games that have been added to the Microsoft Store today (not delisted titles, but games that are transitioning from the 360 store to the current one).
Battlefield 3
Battlefield: Bad Company
Bejeweled 2
Brutal Legend
Crysis 3
Dante's Inferno
Feeding Frenzy 2
Peggle
Skate 3
I just want Dead or Alive 4
@FraserG Free games can also now be redeemed without a card or Paypal like MX Unleashed (current Games With Gold game), Crackdown 1 and 2 (Crackdown 1 and 2 were given away for free to promote Crackdown 3).
Runner 2 is back in US but still no Deadly Premonition.
@Grumblevolcano Good stuff! Thank you
@Vincent294 That's interesting - it looks like Deadly Premonition and Fuel have already been removed. They were definitely there earlier.
Edit: It's happening to lots of them now. Looks like Microsoft is removing them from sale again.
Great news indeed!!!
Picked up Downpour just in case, the physical copy can be expensive.
Would have picked up Deadly Premonition and Overlord too, but they've been removed. Would also pick up Flashpoint but that's too expensive.
Heres hoping these postings aren't total accidents but are being set up to go live in the next month during a big reveal, and accidentally went live too early.
@FraserG did I miss an article? They finally making 360 games part of the modern store so they can be added to the shopping cart and redeemed easily?
@Tharsman Haven't missed anything! Microsoft seems to have been subtly adding lots of 360 games to the modern store this weekend.
@Richnj How good or bad Downpour is?
@BlueOcean It's alright if you're like me, and you like horror and enjoy B grade games.
@Richnj I do but it's not available now and I hesitated because it isn't cheap. I guess people keep these games and are not refunded automatically even if they shouldn't have been available, right? Interesting and weird.
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