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YesterdayFri, 26th Jul 2024
Feature Last Orders! What Are You Getting Before The Xbox 360 Store Closes?
July 29th is just around the corner
Here we go then, folks! We know we've mentioned this a ton recently, but after Monday, you won't be able to buy anything on the Xbox 360 store again! This weekend marks your last chance to grab whatever you want before it closes. The Xbox 360 store closing date is July 29th, 2024, after which it'll permanently go...
Thursday25th Jul 2024
News 3000+ Themes & Gamer Pics Will Be Delisted On Xbox 360 Next Week
If you want any, now's the time!
We're now just days away from the Xbox 360 store closure on July 29th, after which you'll no longer be able to purchase any digital games for the console - including a whole bunch that aren't available on any other platform. It's not just games though... we mentioned recently that hundreds of free demos will also
Wednesday24th Jul 2024
PSA Xbox 360 Servers Won't Shut Down Following July's Store Closure
It's only the storefront going offline
Okay, so, man the panic stations - we're literally five days away from the Xbox 360 store closure that's been planned since last year. Yep, the aging console's marketplace is going offline for good on July 29th. However, we're seeing folks panic about things that won't change come the end of the month, so...
Tuesday23rd Jul 2024
News Three More Xbox 360 Games Get Discounts Ahead Of Next Week's Store Closure
Surprise!
Three more non-backwards compatible Xbox 360 games have appeared on sale today, about a week after Microsoft said it had provided the 'final update' relating to the console's impending store closure. The three games in question aren't major titles by any means, but they're all heavily discounted at 90% off, so if you're gathering up a...
Wednesday17th Jul 2024
News Here's The Final List Of Xbox 360 Store Sales Ahead Of July 29th
A decent list, but it's ending with a whimper
Well, we really are almost at the end now! The Xbox 360 store officially closes on July 29th, 2024, and Microsoft has today unveiled the final ever sales list for the store ahead of its closure - there won't be any more after this! You ready for the bad news? Nothing appears to have been added today. We...
Tuesday16th Jul 2024
News Microsoft Releases Dynamic 'Blades' Background To Mark Xbox 360 Store Closure
The sales list has also been updated
Microsoft has delivered its final update on the status of the Xbox 360 Store prior to its closure on July 29th, and the update comes with a little surprise for Xbox Series X|S owners. The big news here is that the team has released a brand-new dynamic background for Xbox Series X and S users, and it features...
Monday8th Jul 2024
News Here's A Final Look At The Xbox 360's Best-Selling 'Arcade' Games
They'll all be delisted before the end of the month
Anyone who owned an Xbox 360 back in the day will likely remember Xbox Live Arcade - the original home for indie releases and other small titles that were traditionally digital-only. It later transitioned into ID@Xbox for the Xbox One era. A lot of time has obviously passed now, but considering...
Feature 'Blur' Is An Xbox 360 Classic That Deserves Backwards Compatibility
Alas, it'll probably never get it
If you're a fan of racing games and you were playing them back in the Xbox 360 days around 2010, you'll probably remember the so-called battle between Blur and Split/Second. Both of these fantastic racers were released around the same time, and both of them ultimately never got as much appreciation as they deserved...
Tuesday2nd Jul 2024
News EA Is Delisting The Remaining Xbox 360 Battlefield Games & DLC
The end of an era
EA and developer DICE have announced that the last remaining Xbox 360 Battlefield games, and their respective DLC packs, will be delisted on July 31st - ahead of their servers going down in November 2024. As part of a "sunsetting announcement" on social media, DICE has detailed the end of Xbox 360 era Battlefield. The 360 and PS3...
Monday1st Jul 2024
PSA We're Officially In The Last Month Ever For The Xbox 360 Store
Godspeed
Well folks, this is it. After almost 20 years on the market, the Xbox 360 digital storefront officially closes down later this month, marking the end of an incredible era for Xbox. Of course, loads of the games from that generation are now available on the new Xbox store via backwards compatibility, but the closure this month will still be...
Tuesday25th Jun 2024
News Seven Activision Games Just Got Discounted On The Xbox 360 Store
All of them non-backwards compatible
Ahead of the Xbox 360 store closure on July 29th, Microsoft has made it clear that various batches of Xbox 360 digital games will be getting discounts, but we didn't expect to hear anything today - so this is pretty exciting news! As picked up by the folks at True Achievements, seven
Monday24th Jun 2024
News These 254 Free Demos Will Soon Be Delisted Forever On Xbox 360
Download before they disappear
As we continue the countdown to the closure of the old Xbox 360 store on July 29th, we're taking a look today at the hundreds of free demos that will be disappearing forever on that date - so it's definitely worth downloading a few now! Obviously demos are demos and there's only so much enjoyment you can get out of...
Friday21st Jun 2024
News Capcom Promotes Xbox 360 Sale Ahead Of Next Month's Store Closure
"Now is your last chance"
Earlier this week, Microsoft revealed the second big batch of Xbox 360 marketplace discounts ahead of the old store's closure on July 29th, and Capcom is now highlighting the great titles that have been heavily reduced along the way. As part of the sale, various Resident Evil, Bionic Commando and Devil May Cry games for...
Thursday20th Jun 2024
News Xbox 360 Users Warn Of Issues With Certain Content On The Old Store
Worth keeping in mind
As we highlighted earlier this week, another batch of Xbox 360 deals went live recently ahead of the old store's closure next month, and as a result we're seeing a lot of 360 owners picking up as many bargains as possible before July 29th. That's all well and good, but what about buying DLC? That's sadly not quite as simple,...
Tuesday18th Jun 2024
News Xbox 360 Sales Continue As Microsoft Discounts Another Batch Of Games
Just over a month until the store closes down
Update: This latest batch of Xbox 360 deals is now live, but Microsoft says it's still investigating why certain games either aren't showing up at all, or aren't showing the correct price. The titles that have been mentioned are: Burnout 3: Takedown Fight Night Round 3 Frogger: Hyper Arcade...
Friday14th Jun 2024
News Xbox 360 'Cult Classic' Lollipop Chainsaw Returns This September For Series X|S
Juliet makes a comeback in 4K
We've heard a fair bit about the Lollipop Chainsaw remake and it's now been officially confirmed that Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP will be making its way to Xbox Series X|S on September 25th, 2024. This remastered release of the 2012 Grasshopper title, often described as a "cult classic", is being handled by Dragami Games...
Tuesday11th Jun 2024
News EA Announces Yet More Xbox 360 Server Closures For November 2024
Just a few months left to play these online!
EA has announced that three more Xbox 360 Battlefield games will be closing their doors in November 2024 - following a swathe of Battlefield closures that happened in late 2023. This time around, the Xbox 360 versions of Battlefield Hardline, Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 3 will go offline on November 7th...
Wednesday5th Jun 2024
News Here's The Complete List Of Xbox 360 Exclusives Disappearing This July
They'll never (?) be purchasable again
We're getting closer and closer to the end of the Xbox 360 store this July, and when that happens, lots of digital-only Xbox 360 games are set to be permanently delisted - completely inaccessible unless you've already bought them. <related ids="154212"> It's been well documented that around 200...
Monday3rd Jun 2024
News Former Xbox Boss Reminisces About Gears Of War's 'Groundbreaking' Mad World Trailer
"Kudos to the teams"
Less than a year ago we ranted and raved about how much we liked the direction of the first Gears of War game, and we're definitely not the only ones that still have strong feelings for that era of Gears. The first game in the series, and also its Mad World marketing campaign have gone on to become iconic, and former Xbox boss...
Thursday16th May 2024
Poll Which Is Your Favourite Call Of Duty Game On Xbox?
Spoiler: there's quite a few to choose from!
So, we're still waiting for Call of Duty to become a part of Xbox Game Pass in some form, with the top dogs at Microsoft still figuring things out since the company's big ActiBlizz purchase. While we've already asked which classic CoD you'd like to play first on th
Tuesday14th May 2024
News Microsoft Announces Dates For The Final Two Xbox 360 Store Sales
"As many repriced games as possible"
Earlier this week, a bunch of Xbox 360 games suddenly went on sale ahead of the Xbox 360 store's closure this July, and now Microsoft has confirmed that another two sales will follow in the coming months. The dates for these sales will be June 18, 2024 and July 16, 2024, with the intent to feature "as many...
Monday13th May 2024
News Xbox Begins Discounting Lots Of 360 Games Ahead Of July Store Closure
Buy them while you can!
Update: Microsoft has now confirmed that another two Xbox 360 sales will follow in the months ahead, and all of the discounts in the table below will remain active until July 29th, 2024. Plenty of time to make a decision! <related ids="166086"> Original story: With the Xbox 360 store officially set to close on July...
Saturday4th May 2024
Pick One Which Of These Xbox 360 Tomb Raider Games Is The Best?
They're all on sale right now!
This weekend, we've been taking a browse at some of the great deals available on the Xbox Store until next Tuesday, and we're particularly enticed by three Tomb Raider classics from the Xbox 360 era that are reduced by 85% each. These three games are Tomb Raider: Legend, Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Tomb Raider:...
Wednesday1st May 2024
News Xbox Confirms Exactly How The 360 Store Closure Will Affect Players This July
Less than three months to go!
We're getting closer and closer to the end of the Xbox 360 store, with the old marketplace shutting its doors as of July 29th, 2024, and Microsoft has been sending out reminders over the past few hours to all Xbox users about the change. We pretty much knew everything we needed to be aware of before today, but just in...
Tuesday9th Apr 2024
News Time Is Running Out For Hundreds Of Games On The Xbox 360 Store
The end of an era is upon us
Last year, Microsoft dropped a bombshell on us by announcing that the Xbox 360 Marketplace would be closing forever as of July 29th, 2024, and now somehow we're just over three months away from that date! This sadly means that hundreds of non-backwards compatible digital games will be affected, including some pretty...
Friday5th Apr 2024
Deals All 50+ Backwards Compatible Games In The Xbox Spring Sale 2024
Original Xbox and Xbox 360 classics
The Xbox Spring Sale 2024 is now officially in full swing, and as usual for these massive sales, we've got a whole bunch of backwards compatible classics from the OG Xbox and Xbox 360 eras that have been discounted as well! So, in the table below, we've picked out every single backwards compatible deal (from...
Friday29th Mar 2024
News Xbox Honors Akira Toriyama With Free 'Blue Dragon' Dynamic Background
"Honoring a true legend"
Xbox has added to the list of free Dynamic Backgrounds on Series X and Series S today with a special background based on the Xbox 360 classic Blue Dragon, and it's to honour the Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. Toriyama
Friday22nd Mar 2024
News Capcom's 'Age Of Booty' Will Be Delisted On Xbox Next Week
The age of booty is over
Publisher Capcom has announced that its Xbox 360 strategy title Age of Booty is about to be delisted on the Xbox Store. Originally released in 2008, the Certain Affinity developed release will be live on Xbox until March 28th, before it's gone forever. The good news is that existing owners will still be able to access and...
Thursday14th Mar 2024
News Two Xbox Games Are Shutting Down Their Servers In April 2024
Including this tactical online FPS
We've already highlighted here at Pure Xbox how March is a busy month for server closures, with the likes of The Crew, Rocket Arena and Armored Core: Verdict Day all shutting down their Xbox servers over the coming weeks. But what about next month? Well, April 2024 isn't looking quite as painful from a server cl
Saturday9th Mar 2024
Talking Point In Your Opinion, What Made The Xbox 360 Era So Incredible?
PX readers voted it the "best generation" of Xbox
Cast your mind back to around six months ago, and we conducted a poll here at Pure Xbox about the best generation of Xbox so far. From the 2,000 PX readers who submitted their votes, a whopping 68% of them picked the Xbox 360. The results didn't exactly come as a surprise - it's been common...
