Xbox video games to be delisted in December 2024
- Altered Beast — December 6, 2024
- Loopy Taxi — December 6, 2024
- NiGHTS into goals… — December 6, 2024
- Sega Bass Fishing — December 6, 2024
- Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Classics — December 6, 2024
- Sega Classic Assortment: Golden Axe — December 6, 2024
- Sega Classic Assortment: Monster World — December 6, 2024
- Sega Classic Assortment: ToeJam & Earl — December 6, 2024
- Sega Classic Assortment: Streets of Rage — December 6, 2024
- Shinobi — December 6, 2024
- Sonic the Fighters — December 6, 2024
- Virtua Fighter 2 — December 6, 2024
- Forza Horizon 4 — December 15, 2024
- G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout — December 31, 2024
- Nerf Legends — December 31, 2024
- NASCAR Warmth 3 — December 31, 2024
- NASCAR Warmth 4 — December 31, 2024
- NASCAR Warmth 5 — December 31, 2024
- NASCAR 21: Ignition — December 31, 2024
December 6 ushers in an infinite wave of Xbox delistings. Final month, Sega introduced it is delisting 12 Xbox video games from the Microsoft Retailer, together with some absolute classics.
Out of the 12 video games to be faraway from sale, the next 9 titles are digital-only releases: Altered Beast, NiGHTS into goals…, Sonic the Fighters, Virtua Fighter 2, Shinobi, Sega: Classic Assortment: Golden Axe, Sega Classic Assortment: ToeJam & Earl, Sega Classic Assortment: Streets of Rage, and Sega Classic Assortment: Monster World. If you would like these particular variations of those video games, you will have to purchase them earlier than they’re delisted and gone for good.
The following delisting is a giant one. Attributable to expiring licenses, Microsoft is delisting Forza Horizon 4 on December 15 from the Microsoft Retailer and the Recreation Go library. Forza Horizon 4 did get a bodily launch, so not all is misplaced right here when you do not buy it earlier than it is delisted, however if you wish to play both of Forza Horizon 4’s expansions, you will undoubtedly wish to buy these earlier than December 15.
In the event you’re fast, you possibly can choose up a digital copy of Forza Horizon 4: Final Version for affordable within the Xbox Black Friday Sale 2024 — the sale ends on December 3, so you will must be fast.
Writer GameMill is delisting G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout, and one of many worst Xbox video games of 2021, Nerf Legends, on December 31. Each video games right here did obtain bodily releases, so it’s best to nonetheless have the ability to observe them down after they have been faraway from the shop.
On high of GameMill’s end-of-year delisting shenanigans, Motorsport Video games will even be eradicating a number of NASCAR titles and their DLC packs from digital storefronts on the identical date. Though Motorsport’s announcement is somewhat unclear by way of which particular titles can be faraway from sale, it seems like NASCAR Warmth 3, NASCAR Warmth 4, NASCAR Warmth 5, and NASCAR 21: Iginition will all be delisted from the Xbox retailer on December 31. Motorsport says will probably be working “numerous platform promotions” in December for its video games.
Elsewhere within the unhappy world of Xbox delistings and server closures, there are three Xbox server closures deliberate for December 2024.