Microsoft is removing dozens of games from Xbox 360 Marketplace in February

As of Tuesday, February 7th, dozens of games will no longer be available for purchase on the Xbox 360 Marketplace. The list varies by country and includes popular titles like Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Left 4 Dead, and Limbo. There are a total of 46 games in the United States. For the full list for the US and other countries, see Xbox support page has any list available here. While these games are no longer available for purchase, they can still be played and downloaded as long as you purchase them before the deadline. Here is a list of games leaving the US market:

• Aegis Wings
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
• Assassin’s Creed III
• Assassin’s Creed IV
• Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD
• Blood of the Werewolf
• Blue Dragon
• mental breakdown
• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
• Call of Duty Ghosts
• castle fights
• Cloning of Clyde
• Counterstrike: GO
• Dark Souls
• Darksider II
• Daytona USA
• defense grid
• Eets: Chowdown
• Far Cry 2
• Last fight: DblImpact
• Iron Brigade
• Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad
• jet set radio
• left 4 Dead
• Left 4 Dead 2
• limbo
• Lost Odyssey
• mass effect 2
• monopoly deal
• Mutant Blobs Attack
• N+
• Outpost Kaloki X
• peggle 2
• Phantom Breaker: Battlegrounds
• Prince of Persia
• LIST
• Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co.
• skate 2
• South Park: The Stick of Truth
• spelunky
• Splinter Cell Conviction
• Star Wars Battlefront
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
• The orange crate
• The raven episode 1
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

While these games will no longer be accessible on the 360, Microsoft has clarified in a Statement on Gematsu that they will continue to be available in the Xbox One and Series X/S stores. Additionally, many of these games have received ports, remasters, or other releases on modern consoles, so losing access to a 360 version doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the world. However, if you want to download some of these games digitally on your 360, you have until February 7th.

The further we get from the advent of digital game downloads, the more games have become inaccessible. The first example was the closure of the Wii Shop Channel in 2019, soon followed by the closure of the Wii U and 3DS stores in a few months. In very breaking news today, Konami announced plans to make its social deduction game Crimesight completely unplayable by May.

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