{"id":144733,"date":"2025-05-30T18:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144733\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:08:11","slug":"six-xbox-games-are-shutting-down-their-servers-in-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144733\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Xbox Games Are Shutting Down Their Servers In June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Six Xbox Games Are Shutting Down Their Servers In June 2025\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/f5ae4d8acd3eb\/six-xbox-games-are-shutting-down-their-servers-in-june-2025.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/six-xbox-games-are-shutting-down-their-servers-in-june-2025.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Six Xbox Games Are Shutting Down Their Servers In June 2025\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every month, we bring you the latest news in terms of Xbox games that are shutting down their servers, and June&#8217;s looking like a pretty busy month for server closures &#8211; including the departure of Ubisoft&#8217;s free-to-play FPS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/xdefiant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XDefiant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is easily the most notable server closure over the next few weeks, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/features\/reaction-resident-evil-9-should-stay-far-away-from-flops-like-reverse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resident Evil Re:Verse<\/a> is also one to highlight, along with a couple of Xbox One-specific shutdowns for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/first_descendant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The First Descendant<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-one\/black_desert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Desert<\/a> that are being continued with Xbox Series X|S versions in the future instead.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s the full list of Xbox games turning off their servers in June 2025:<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the only server closure without a specific date on this list is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2024\/07\/if-you-like-mario-kart-you-might-enjoy-this-free-new-racer-on-xbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stampede: Racing Royale<\/a>, which was announced back in March to be closing in around three months&#8217; time, placing it in the June 2025 window.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the list as a whole, we&#8217;re particularly gutted to be losing XDefiant in just a few days&#8217; time on Xbox, as we&#8217;ve had a decent time with it overall! Free-to-play is always a gamble though, and it clearly hasn&#8217;t worked out in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Sad for any of these Xbox server closures in June? Tell us down in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1743477849_879_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fraser Gilbert\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every month, we bring you the latest news in terms of Xbox games that are shutting down their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[62432,44538,507,419,9840,53,16,15,289],"class_list":{"0":"post-144733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-delisting","9":"tag-june-2025","10":"tag-microsoft","11":"tag-round-up","12":"tag-servers","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-xbox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}