Xbox 360 News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Thanks to a coworker's generosity, one Xbox fan received a few older games to add to their collection of Xbox and Xbox 360 titles. The Xbox fan then posted their collection of games on social media, which featured a mix of movie tie-in games as well as classic entries from series that put the Xbox brand on the map.

A Skyrim player has received a hilarious reaction from an NPC after killing Commander Maro. Similar to The Elder Scrolls title before it, Skyrim is full of unpredictable NPCs, with many providing unique dialogue, but this may be among the least expected occurrences.

2K has officially announced that it’s rebooting the Top Spin series.

Concept art for BioShock Infinite that recently popped up online shows that the entrance area of the Welcome Center was supposed to have a completely different look. Some fans who saw the early artwork claimed it looked better than the design the developers ultimately decided to go with for the level.

A Minecraft Redstone expert has made a working version of Guitar Hero in the game. Except for Fortnite Festival, Guitar Hero-style games have been largely lost to time, but Redstone can provide Minecraft fans with a way of playing songs in the Mojang game.

According to some gaming industry insiders, a Gears of War collection could be in its testing phases right now. Gears of War is a classic Xbox third-person shooter franchise, though some of its games, like the second and third titles of the original trilogy, are trapped on the Xbox 360. As such, many fans of this franchise have been wanting a remastered collection for a long time, possibly something similar to Halo: The Master Chief Collection. There have been plenty of persistent rumors about a Gears of War collection in recent years.

Fans of the original Red Dead Redemption are calling for one underrated feature of the game's bounty system to return in future iterations of the series. While players can capture other bounties in Red Dead Redemption, there's undoubtedly plenty of fun to be had for players in racking up a bounty of their own, and this feature improves that.

A Skyrim player has shown off an impressive mod that makes the game look and play like an earlier entry into the Elder Scrolls series, Daggerfall. While most Skyrim graphics mods make the game look better, this particular creation goes in the opposite direction.

Hitman: Blood Money — Reprisal will launch on Nintendo Switch in two weeks time, on 25th January.

Wizards of the Coast has hit back at claims one of its latest promotional images were made using AI generative tools.

Games losing their multiplayer components years on from their releases is far from an uncommon occurrence, and another nearly-decade-old game’s servers will soon be shutting down- on some platforms, at any rate.

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The reboot of TimeSplitters started life as a “clone” of Fortnite’s battle royale mode before becoming a remake of TimeSplitters 2, according to a former developer at recently shuttered studio Free Radical Design.

The new TimeSplitters project recently in development at Free Radical Design was originally pitched as a battle royale game to rival Fortnite, a developer on the project has claimed.

The MAGES.-developed Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds and Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive will be delisted from all digital storefronts along with related downloadable content on March 4, 2024, Rocket Panda Games announced. Users who already own the game and its downloadable content will still be able to access it.

After March 2024, the game will be completely inaccessible.

Over nine years since it launched for PS4, PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, Ivory Tower’s The Crew is being delisted. It’s no longer available to purchase on Steam and the PlayStation Store (though some regions and the Xbox Store still have it). This move affects the base game, its various editions and DLC.

The Nintendo Switch has been an absolute juggernaut where its sales are concerned (and in other areas), and it’s enjoyed that success all over the world. In fact, in the United States, it recently crossed another major sales milestone.

The reboot of survival-horror series Alone in the Dark has seen a second delay, with its release date now landing toward the end of next March. Publishers THQ Nordic ascribed the roughly two-month slip to their efforts in avoiding development crunch.

THQ Nordic has announced another delay to its reimagining of 1992's Alone in the Dark.

Fans have spotted a tribute to Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy in the Arkham Trilogy on Switch.

Bethesda has released a new and quite chunky update for Skyrim Special Edition, which in itself isn't all that remarkable. Sure the game is several years old now, but it is still very popular with players, so why not give the game a boost if it needs it.

A new update for Skyrim Special Edition has introduced "Creations", a method through which community modders can sign up to the "Bethesda Game Studios Verified Creator Program" and then sell their work through the platform to receive royalties.

TimeSplitters studio Free Radical could be closed before Christmas, megacorp owner Embracer has reportedly told staff, as dozens of staff at the UK studio are said to be looking for new roles.

The suit worn by a certain Robert Pattinson — or Battinson, if you will allow me — in Warner Bros' The Batman film will be available as part of the Arkham Trilogy on Nintendo Switch.

There's a new Tribes FPS in development, eight years since the last Tribes game, Tribes: Ascend, went skeeting off into the no-further-updates hereafter. It's the work of former Hi-Rez subsidiary and nowadays independent studio Prophecy Games, and going by SteamDB listings, it's called Tribes 3: Rivals.

Eight years after Dontnod’s time-rewinding teen drama made its debut, the original Life is Strange has now been played by over 20 million people.

The first Life is Strange game has been played by over 20 million people.

Activision has said its new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has broken multiple player engagement records, without providing any specific player numbers.

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developers Sledgehammer Games (umpteenth reminder: that's Modern Warfare 3 as in the 2023 game, not the 2011 FPS of the same name) have hosted a Reddit AMA in which they answered a bunch of questions about the evolution of the game's competitive meta. That's meta as in the overall balance of power between Modern Warfare 3 loadouts, playstyles and so forth based on a variety of factors such as map design, rather than the Alan Wake 2 kind of "meta", where characters talk about how they're just characters in a game and so on. I would dearly like to see some crossover between these types of "meta". I guess the Call of Duty that comes closest to fulfilling that idea is Black Ops 3, with its fourth-wall-breaking cyborg theatrics.

Ubisoft has laid off more than 100 staff, continuing what feels like an unending wave of layoffs across the video games industry. The latest job losses spanning visual effects and IT departments come less than six months after the Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six publisher made dozens of custom service staff redundant.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3's short campaign may be getting mixed feedback, but it does at least feature a cameo appearance from the series' best canine boy.

Shoot-em-up Radiant Silvergun is now available on Steam for the first time.

Radiant Silvergun is a little less well known than its successor Ikaruga, but it remains a shmup classic from Treasure, the masters of the genre. It was released in Japanese arcades in 1998 and it arrives on Steam today.

Dead Space 3 has lived in infamy thanks to some controversial decisions that were made about the game’s core design and story. Story producer Chuck Beaver, speaking with YouTuber CaptainBribo, has revealed that he would like to “almost completely” rewrite the game’s story.

Various versions of Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood, Revelations, and Liberation HD will all be losing online functionality.

While Ubisoft celebrates the player numbers for Assassin’s Creed Mirage, a throwback to the series’ trademark stealth and parkour, Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag celebrates a new milestone. Since launching on October 29th 2013, it’s had over 34 million players.

All Ghillied Up is beloved now, but that wasn't always the case.

«But they were 100% right. I remember one person was like, 'This is offensive. I don't want to play this level.'»

Microsoft is celebrating Halo 3 and the Xbox 360 in the year 2023.

A former investment analyst at Goldman Sachs who was recently indicted by the FBI for insider trading — along with two associates — may have been caught thanks in part to chat. While it’s not unusual for developers and publishers to punish volatile players misusing in-game voice chat, it’s decidedly less common for it to play a role in a criminal proceeding.

The Switch has performed exceptionally well in the US and worldwide.

Peter Moore says it made sense developers and publishers were in «Sony's pocket» after the DreamCast crashed and the success of the original PlayStation.

Black Ops II hit the top twenty bestseller list for the first time since April 2017.

recently announced plans to shut down the Marketplace permanently next year. Users will keep and can reinstall any games they own. However, Xbox 360 users won’t be able to buy any new games or DLC. This is especially bad news for the .

Microsoft said on Thursday it would pull the plug on Xbox 360's online store and marketplace next year, as it focuses on its latest consoles and subscription service Game Pass.

Microsoft will close the next year, making it impossible for players to purchase new games, DLC, or other content on that console. However, players will still be able to play all of the games and DLC they have already purchased.

Microsoft has announced that it’s shutting down on July 29th, 2024. Players won’t be able to purchase new titles, DLC or other content via the Xbox 360 Store on consoles or the dedicated website.

Microsoft will close the Xbox 360 Marketplace on July 29, 2024, the company announced.

The perfect way to catch up on the series while waiting for Dragon Age: Dreadwolf.

Publisher EA has shut down the servers for some of its older titles, including Dead Space 2, Crysis 3, Dante’s Inferno and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, as caught by Pure Xbox. While most of these games didn’t feature much in the way of multiplayer, Crysis 3 is a notable title in this list since it features several multiplayer game modes.

Say goodbye.

The Metal Gear franchise has been dormant for a while now. It’s last major release was Metal Gear Survive in 2018, and if you want to completely ignore its existence (which, why wouldn’t you), you’d have to go back to 2015 for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. And yet, despite being treated like a forgotten step-child by Konami, the series is managing to attract its fair share of new sales.

The Red Dead Redemption remaster rumors have quickly gone from smoke to blazing fire. Insider Tez2 discovered a new logo for the game on Rockstar’s website with the reference Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Presents Ver). It now seems that PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Switch have been added as platform buttons in a call-to-action (CTA) prompt.