Multiple online sources are reporting that a significant update rolled out to over fifteen different Xbox 360 games this weekend. The games include Major Xbox 360 releases like Fable Anniversary, Fallout New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, Dead Space, Dragon Age: Origins, and many more. The nature of these updates has yet to be discovered. The existence of these updates is all that anyone knows, as there’s no indication that the updates have activated in-game as of yet.
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While there’s nothing certain surrounding the situation, speculation points to the 20th Anniversary as the reveal and official release of these updates and their nature. Obviously, new content for these aging games is almost certainly out of the question. However, there’s an opportunity to release optimization patches for each of them to improve their performance or enhance them in more straightforward ways, whether solely for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S or for the Xbox One as well.
Optimizations aren’t a certainty, but it’s unclear what else the mysterious Xbox 360 game patches could be for. Especially since most of the games included on the list are major game releases from AAA game franchises. In other words, they’re titles that would make sense for big publishers like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Sega to want to have improved for modern platforms.
The Xbox 360 game updates join a growing list of peculiar rumors spreading ahead of the Xbox 20th Anniversary celebration. Another example is the appearance of several games for the original Xbox console appearing on the Xbox marketplace, either returning after being taken down or being listed for the very first time.
Easily the biggest rumor ahead of tomorrow’s Xbox 20th Anniversary is that the multiplayer half of Halo Infinite could launch on November 15. Datamined information from both the Xbox storefront and 343’s own statistical data servers points to the possibility. Xbox fans will just have to watch Xbox’s anniversary broadcast Monday at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET to find out for sure.
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