Manage your Xbox 360 games

You can download games from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace and install games from disc to your console’s hard drive. To see your installed and downloaded games, go to Games, and then select My Games. Not seeing My Games? Update your Xbox 360 console software.

You can browse the Xbox LIVE Games Marketplace on your computer and add games to your console’s download queue. The next time your console connects to Xbox LIVE, the items in your download queue will start downloading. To learn how to do this, see Buy content from Xbox LIVE.

1. On your console, sign in to Xbox LIVE.
2. Go to Games, and then select Marketplace.
3. Select the game, add-on, or game demo that you want to download.
4. Select Confirm Download.

1. On your console, go to Games, and then select My Games.
2. Select the game you want to play.

1. Insert the game disc into the disc drive.

Note After you insert the disc, the default option is to automatically start the game. If the game starts, exit the game, and return to the Xbox Dashboard.

2. Go to Home.
3. Highlight the game you want to install with your controller.
4. Press Y on your controller.
5. Select Install to Hard Drive.

A progress indicator appears while your game is installed to your hard drive. Installing a game to your hard drive can take up to 12 minutes.

• Installing a game to your hard drive requires between 4 and 8 gigabytes (GB) of free disc space.
• After installing a game on your hard drive, you still need to have the game disc in the disc drive when you start the game.
• Installing games on your hard drive improves load times and minimizes game disc access.
• Original Xbox games can't be installed on an Xbox 360 Hard Drive.

1. Go to Home.
2. Insert the game disc into the disc drive.
3. Select the game if it doesn’t start automatically.

Note To play a game installed on your hard drive, the game disc must be in the disc drive. The console will play the installed game from your hard drive, after the console checks for a valid game disc in the disc drive.

1. Go to Settings, and then select System.
2. Select Storage, and then select Hard Drive.
3. Select Games.

4. Find and select the game you want to delete.
5. Select Delete.

If you delete a downloaded game from your hard drive, you can redownload it from your download history.