Microsoft has announced that it will remove several games and their DLC from the Xbox 360 digital store next week.
The exact number varies by region. For example, in the United States, 46 games will be removed, while in the United Kingdom the number drops to 44. In Europe, there will be 31 titles.
Games that will be removed include franchise hits such as Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, Dark Souls, Far Cry, Mass Effect, Splinter Cell and Star Wars.
Titles will be deleted from the digital store on February 7, 2023, but Microsoft stresses that once purchased, players will be able to download whenever they want. Basically, the removed titles will just no longer be able to be purchased digitally.
A Microsoft spokesperson told Gematsu that players will still be able to play game discs on their Xbox 360 or more modern consoles if they are backwards compatible.
Check out the complete list of removed games in Europe below:
- Assassin’s Creed IV
- Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
- Assassin’s Creed III
- Blue Dragon Breakdown
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Call of Duty: Ghosts
- Castle Crashers
- Cloning Clyde
- Counter-Strike: GO
- Dark Souls
- Darksiders II Defense Grid
- Faery: Legends of Avalon
- Far Cry 2
- GAROU MOW
- iron brigade
- jet set radio
- LIMBO
- Lost Odyssey
- Mass Effect 2
- MONOPOLY DEAL
- Peggle 2
- RUSE
- Samurai Shodown II
- South Park: The Stick of Truth
- Spelunky
- SplinterCell Conviction
- star wars battlefront
- Star Wars KOTOR 2
- The Orange Box
- The Raven Episode 1
Backward compatibility was heralded by Microsoft as one of the strengths of the Xbox Series X|S, with the company touting its extensive ability to play games from the original Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Many games use the power of the new generation to run better and have more beautiful textures, in addition to support for FPS Boost, which can double the frame rate per second in some cases.
