{"id":918995,"date":"2025-12-27T06:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1851609358"},"modified":"2025-12-27T06:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:47:14","slug":"what-we-loved-and-miss-about-the-xbox-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/what-we-loved-and-miss-about-the-xbox-360\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Loved And Miss About The Xbox 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/what-we-loved-and-miss-about-the-xbox-360.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft shutdown the Xbox 360&#8217;s marketplace this week and nearly two decades after the console first launched it feels like the final nail in the coffin for a particular era of gaming we\u2019ll probably never see again. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/xbox-360-tribute-retrospective-halo-3-red-ring-e3-1851609358\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/xbox-360-tribute-retrospective-halo-3-red-ring-e3-1851609358\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft shutdown the Xbox 360&#8217;s marketplace this week and nearly two decades after the console first launched it feels like the final nail in the coffin for a particular era of gaming we\u2019ll probably never see again. 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