Xbox 360 - Timeline
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...
Friday8th Mar 2024
News Microsoft 'Feared' The End Of Console Gaming As Early As Xbox 360, Says Peter Moore
Talk about 'no more consoles' isn't new
It seems that every console generation there's always speculation about whether this will be the 'last one' before a move away from dedicated hardware, and according to former Xbox boss Peter Moore, that even went on internally at Microsoft during the Xbox 360 era. Talking to IGN this week, Moore said that...
Friday1st Mar 2024
News Xbox Fans Praise MEGA Console Set That Looks 'Identical' To The Original 360 Design
It's about to launch in the UK!
Microsoft has announced that the MEGA Xbox 360 console set unveiled last September is coming to the UK, and so, we decided to take a look at reviews of the US version to see what folks make of the 3:4 scale set - and the reception seems pretty positive so far. Over on the
Tuesday27th Feb 2024
Deals All 15+ Backwards Compatible Games In This Week's Xbox Sales (February 27 - March 5)
Up to 80% off!
Our latest set of Xbox deals is now live - with over 500 titles discounted this week as part of a big 'Bundles' sale. The backwards compatibility list is significantly shorter than that this week - but there are still some great deals to be had! <related ids="162761"> So, here are all of the OG Xbox / Xbox 360 backwards...
Tuesday20th Feb 2024
News All 30+ Backwards Compatible Games In This Week's Xbox Sales (February 20-27)
Up to 85% off!
Tuesday rolls around again, which means a fresh set of deals are live on the Xbox Store. It's a fairly slim update this week, but we still have some huge games discounted right now - including highlights from an EA Publisher Sale. <related ids="162413"> As usual, tucked in here is a solid selection of OG Xbox and Xbox 360...
News 10 Xbox Games Are Shutting Down Their Servers In March 2024
It's a busy month for server closures
Now and again throughout the year, the servers for various Xbox games end up being shut down for different reasons - whether that's simply because they're old titles now, or perhaps they haven't performed as well as expected. We've seen a few Xbox servers being shut down already in 2024, but March is looking...
Saturday17th Feb 2024
Pick One Which Is Your Favourite Tomb Raider Game On Xbox?
Has TR 1-3 Remastered taken your top spot?
Welcome to Pick One! This weekend, to celebrate the arrival of Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered, we thought we'd take a look at the history of Tomb Raider games on Xbox - which stretches all the way back to 2006! Specifically, there have been seven Tomb Raider games on Xbox so far, and nine if you count Lara...
Tuesday13th Feb 2024
Deals All 30+ Backwards Compatible Games In This Week's Xbox Sales (February 13-20)
Including a bunch of classic CoD titles!
Earlier today, we highlighted the 250+ deals that have been added to the Xbox Store for this week, and we've got a few others carrying over from last week as well, such as all the titles included in the "2K Publisher" sale. As part of all these, there are around 30 backwards compatible titles from the...
Wednesday31st Jan 2024
News Spec Ops: The Line Devs Pay Tribute To Harrowing Shooter As It Disappears From Storefronts
"I will always be proud of the whole Spec Ops: The Line team"
This week, the surprise news that Spec Ops: The Line had started being delisted across digital storefronts filtered through the pipeline, with console versions following PC platforms. In the wake of all this going down, several developers have paid tribute to the Xbox 360 era 2K shooter -...
News Spec Ops: The Line Has Been Removed From Xbox's Storefront
Multiple partnership licenses for the Xbox 360 game have expired
If you never got around to grabbing a digital version of Spec Ops: The Line, your chance to add it to your library is now officially over. Game File's Stephen Totilo has been officially informed by a 2K representative that the 2012 title is "no longer available on online storefronts"...
Tuesday30th Jan 2024
Deals All 50+ Backwards Compatible Games In Xbox's Lunar New Year Sale 2024
Featuring some hefty discounts!
Xbox's big Lunar New Year Sale has just gone live, which means hundreds of new deals are now available on the Microsoft Store. In and amongst these deals are some great discounts on Xbox backwards compatible titles - across the OG Xbox and Xbox 360 libraries. <related ids="161386"> So, here are all the new...
Monday29th Jan 2024
News Unreleased Call Of Duty Gameplay Leaks Online From Project 'NX1'
Footage from an Xbox 360 era COD has appeared
Call of Duty is a juggernaut franchise and has been for decades at this point, and it was the Xbox 360 era of the franchise that got the ball well and truly rolling. Annual releases became the norm that generation, but as it turns out, there were some projects — quite far along in development might we...
Wednesday3rd Jan 2024
Deals All 40+ Backwards Compatible Games In This Week's Xbox Sales (January 3-10)
New year, more discounts
Even though the Xbox Countdown Sale has now officially come to a close, Microsoft has lots of new deals live on the Xbox Store this week! We have over 300 games on sale in total, including some very new releases, alongside a selection of old backwards compatible classics from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 eras. <related...
Friday22nd Dec 2023
Random 'Brink' Fan Says They'll Keep Buying Copies Until Xbox Makes A Sequel
They've been doing this for years now!
Remember the 2011 first-person shooter Brink? This was actually a pretty successful release from Gears Tactics developer Splash Damage back in the Xbox 360 days, and there's one fan who seems to love it more than anyone else. Over the Christmas period, we've noticed a Redditor by the name of Brink_2_ embarking...
News FromSoftware Announces Server Closures For Two Xbox 360 Games
It's apparently due to "deterioration"
We've got a couple more Xbox server closures to report! FromSoftware has announced today that two of its Xbox 360 titles will be shutting their servers in March of 2024, although the games will continue to function offline as well. One if these is Dark Souls 2, which already has a newer version for Xbox One...
Thursday21st Dec 2023
Talking Point What Was The Greatest Xbox 360 Game Of All Time?
Talk about tough decisions...
There's no doubt that many Xbox fans consider the Xbox 360 era to be the greatest in the history of the brand, and a large part of that is due to how many incredible games the console received in the late 2000s and early 2010s. But out of the thousands of titles released on the Xbox 360, which was the very best?...
Friday15th Dec 2023
Deals All 80+ Backwards Compatible Games In The Xbox Countdown Sale 2023
Lots of BC titles are on offer for a few weeks!
Xbox's huge Countdown Sale for 2023 is now live - featuring hundreds of discounts across all sorts of franchises, genres, bundles, etc! Tucked into the list is a selection of backwards compatible classics from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 eras, and the vast majority of them are definitely worth...
News A Bunch Of Xbox Games Are Closing Their Servers In 2024
Living in an online world
Update: We've got a couple more to add to the list! FromSoftware has announced that two of its Xbox 360 titles will also be shutting their online servers in March of 2024. Here's more info about each of them: <related ids="160081"> Original story: As more and more games rely on online connectivity to fully...
Wednesday29th Nov 2023
News Xbox Exec Sends Fans Into A Frenzy With Random Social Media Post
But we don't think it means anything
Last night, Xbox's Sarah Bond managed to cause a bit of a frenzy amongst the Xbox community on social media, as she took to Twitter to post a single image of the Xbox 360 style logo - with nothing else alongside it whatsoever. Here's a look at what she posted, which has racked up around 250,000 views so far:...
Wednesday22nd Nov 2023
Feature Xbox 360 Took The Gaming World By Storm 18 Years Ago Today
A massive Xbox anniversary
November always brings around some famous anniversaries in the Xbox world, and perhaps none are quite as famous as this one. 18 years ago today, Microsoft launched the Xbox 360 in North America, and there really hasn't been a more appropriate time to wheel out the old 'rest is history' trope, has there? This is...
Tuesday21st Nov 2023
Deals Five More Backwards Compatible Games Added To This Week's Xbox Sales (November 21-28)
Loads of Black Friday discounts are still available too!
Xbox's huge Black Friday digital sale is still live, featuring around 100 backwards compatible titles, but the team has just added another five classic games to the discount pile - and there are some good ones in here too. So, we've gathered up all of the newly-discounted backwards compatible...
News These 10+ Xbox Games Are Shutting Their Servers This December
Enjoy playing them online while you can!
Every now and again, we learn of a bunch of Xbox games shutting their servers, and it just so happens that over 10 of them will be doing just that in December 2023, giving us just a few weeks left to enjoy their online features. We've already reported on some of these in the past, like the multiple...
Friday17th Nov 2023
Deals All 100+ Backwards Compatible Games In The Xbox Black Friday Sale 2023
One of the biggest Back Compat lists ever!
Black Friday is nearly upon us! To celebrate the year's biggest discount day, Xbox has unleashed a huge digital sale on the Microsoft Store, featuring over 1,000 games in total. Mixed in there is a good selection of backwards compatible classics from the OG Xbox and Xbox 360 eras, so we've rounded up all of...
Tuesday14th Nov 2023
News Another Seven Games Will Leave Xbox Game Pass Soon (November 30)
Including a batch of EA departures
Microsoft has revealed another seven games leaving Xbox Game Pass in the latter part of November 2023, and it includes a few pretty big departures from EA and others. Since April, three classic Battlefield titles have been unavailable to purchase as EA removed them from digital storefronts. Ahead of their online...
Wednesday8th Nov 2023
Talking Point Xbox's Influential Gears Of War Sequel Is Now 15 Years Old
Happy belated birthday, Gears 2!
Ahh, the original Gears trilogy - one of our absolute favourite collections in the Xbox library. We had so much fun on these games back in the day, and this week, the second game in the series celebrated a rather substantial birthday. Gears of War 2 is now 15 years of age, and it was a pretty influential game for its...
