


The fact that all Xbox 360 Gold members can play it for free should make for a huge and active online community. Happy Wars looks like an adorable and yet cutthroat action game. All that's required to download the game itself is an Xbox Live Gold subscription. Some of the game's vast assortment of items can be earned during gameplay, while others will cost Microsoft Points to purchase. We already knew Happy Wars featured extensive character customization options, and it turns out that's how the game will be monetized. Regular releases of even more items and character customization parts are planned following release of the game. In addition to online competitions, you can also enjoy cooperative play with team mates to fight a quirky troop of bots, or individually work your way through missions in the single-player campaign mode. You can also combine items to increase their power! Turn the course of battle through powerful Team Skills you can launch with your team mates!Ĭustomize your character using items obtained in the game. Team work is the key to victory in online play. Combat involves hacking, slashing, and shooting at each other in a comical fantasy setting. Teams of up to 15 players can compete against each other or team up in co-op against AI enemies. Happy Wars is basically the 360's answer to Fat Princess. Happy Wars is a large-scale online multiplayer action game, involving up to 30 players per match. Now Microsoft has announced that massive online action game Happy Wars will be the very first Xbox 360 freemium game when it launches in fall 2012. For whatever reason, console manufacturers Microsoft and Sony have only really started opening up to the free-to-play business model this year, with multiple titles in the works for both systems. Freemium games cost nothing up front, instead making their money from optional microtranactions. For more information on the games impacted in your region, visit here.On PC and mobile phones, freemium or free-to-play games are all the rage.

You will still be able to play discs or previously downloaded games on your Xbox 360 and modern consoles if they are backwards compatible titles. “These titles will no longer be purchasable on the Xbox 360 Store only, and titles that are available to be purchased on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S Stores will remain purchasable. “Beginning on February 7, 2023, a limited set of games, add-ons, and in-game content will no longer be purchasable in select markets via the Xbox 360 Store,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Gematsu. This delisting will not affect the ability to purchase the titles that are available on Xbox One or Xbox Series consoles. Microsoft will delist a number of game titles and associated add-ons from the Xbox 360 Marketplace on February 7, including Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Jet Set Radio, and more, the company announced.
