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Xbox One Backward Compatibility Game List. This list of games playable on Xbox One records all backward-compatible 360 and XBLA games confirmed to function on current-gen hardware. Microsoft announced during its E3 2017 conference original Xbox games will be compatible with the Xbox One as well, however announced only a single game so far.  Most recent addition: Call of Duty: Black Ops II, April 11th, 2017. Confirmed Xbox Games. Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. Confirmed Xbox 360 Games. A Kingdom for Keflings A World of Keflings Aegis Wing Age of Booty Alan Wake Alan Wake's American Nightmare Alien Hominid HD Altered Beast Anomaly War Zone Aqua Arkanoid Live Assassin's Creed Assassin’s Creed II Asteroids & Deluxe Babel Rising Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Banjo-Kazooie Banjo-Tooie BattleBlock Theater Battlestations: Midway Bayonetta Bejeweled 2 Bejeweled 3 Bellator: MMA Onslaught Beyond Good & Evil HD Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 Bloodforge Blood Knights Blood of the Werewolf BloodRayne: Betrayal Bomberman Battlefest Boom Boom Rocket Borderlands Bound By Flame Braid Brain Challenge Blue Dragon (requires disk) Burnout Paradise Call of Duty 2 Call of Duty 3 Call of Duty: Black Ops Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Call of Duty: World at War Call of Juarez Gunslinger Capcom Arcade Cabinet Carcassonne Castle Crashers Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse CastleStorm Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Centipede & Millipede Comic Jumper Comix Zone Condemned: Criminal Origins Counter-Strike: GO Crazy Taxi Crystal Defenders Crystal Quest Dark Souls Dark Void Deadliest Warrior: Legends Dead Space Dead Space Ignition Deathspank TOV De Blob 2 Defense Grid: The Awakening Deus Ex: Human Revolution Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut Dig Dug DiRT 3 DiRT Showdown Discs of Tron Domino Master Doom Doom II Doom 3 BFG Edition (disc version) Doritos Crash Course Double Dragon Neon Dragon's Lair Duck Tales: Remastered Duke Nukem Manhattan Project Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara Dungeon Siege III E4 Earthworm Jim HD Eat Lead EnclevermentExperiment Escape Dead Island Fable II Fable III Faery: Legends of Avalon Fallout 3 Fallout New Vegas Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Feeding Frenzy Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown Final Fight: Double Impact Flashback Flock Forza Horizon Foul Play Fret Nice Frogger Frogger 2 FunTown Mahjong Galaga Galaga Legions Galaga Legions DX Garou: Mark of the Wolves Gating Gears Gears of War Gears of War 2 Gears of War 3 Gears of War: Judgment Geometry Wars Evolved Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Golden Axe Go Go Break Steady Grid 2 Gripshift Guardian Heroes Gunstar Heroes Guwange Half-Minute Hero Halo: Reach Halo: Spartan Assault Halo Wars Hardwood Backgammon Hardwood Hearts Hardwood Spades Haunted House Heavy Weapon Hexic HD Hexic 2 Hydro Thunder I Am Alive Ikaruga Injustice: Gods Among Us Interpol Iron Brigade Jeremy McGrath's Offroad Jetpac Refuelled Jet Set Radio Joe Danger Special Edition Joe Danger 2 Jurassic Park: The Game Joust Joy Ride Turbo Just Cause 2 Kameo: Elements of Power Kane & Lynch 2 Killer Is Dead Lazy Raiders Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead 2 LEGO Batman LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga Limbo Lode Runner Lost Odyssey LUMINES LIVE! Magic 2012 Mars: War Logs Mass Effect Mass Effect 2 Mass Effect 3 Metal Slug 3 Metal Slug XX Might & Magic Clash of Heroes Military Madness Mirror’s Edge Missile Command Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine Monday Night Combat Monkey Island 2: Special Edition Monkey Island: Special Edition Monopoly Plus Motocross Madness Mr. Driller Online MS. PAC-MAN Ms. Splosion Man Mutant Blobs Attack. MX vs. ATV Reflex N+ NBA JAM: On Fire Edition NeoGeo Battle Coliseum New Rally X NiGHTS into dreams… Nin2-Jump Of Orcs and Men OFP: Red River (disc only) Omage Five Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Outland Pac-Man Pac-Man: Championship Edition Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX+ Pac-Man Museum Peggle Perfect Dark Perfect Dark Zero Phantasy Star 2 Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Pinball FX Plants vs. Zombies Portal 2 Portal: Still Alive Prince of Persia Pure (disc only) Putty Squad Puzzlegeddon Puzzle Quest Puzzle Quest 2 Puzzle Quest Galactrix Qix++ Rage (Disc Only) R-Type Dimensions Rayman 3 HD Rayman Legends Rayman Origins Red Dead Redemption Red Faction Battlegrounds Runner2 Sacred 3 Sacred Citadel Saints Row 4 Sam and Max Beyond Space and Time Sam and Max Save the World Samurai Shodown 2 Scarygirl Sega Bass Fishing Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co. Sega Vintage Collection: Golden Axe Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage Shadow Complex Shadowrun Shank 2 Shred Nebula Shortest Shogi Silent Hill: Downpour Skate 3 Skullgirls Small Arms Sonic CD Sonic & All-stars Racing Transformed Sonic & Knuckles Sonic The Fighters Sonic The Hedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode 1 Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode 2 Soul Calibur SoulCalibur 2 HD South Park: The Stick of Truth Space Ark Space Giraffe Spelunky Splosion Man SSX Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 Super Meat Boy Supreme Commander 2 Syberia Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Texas Hold'Em The Cave The King of Fighters 98 UM The Maw The Orange Box The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings Ticket To Ride Tom Clancy’s RainbowSix Vegas Tom Clancy’s RainbowSix Vegas 2 Torchlight Tour de France 2009 Tour de France 2011 Toy Soldiers Toy Soldiers: Cold War Toy Story 3 Trials HD Triggerheart Exelica Tron: Evolution Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon Unbound Saga Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Viva Piñata Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise Wolfenstein 3D Word Puzzle XCOM: Enemy Unknown XCOM: Enemy Within Zuma Zuma's Revenge! Microsoft announced Xbox One backward compatibility at E3 2015 and started rolling out the function on November 12, 2015. Xbox 360 discs do not play natively but trigger a download of a compatible file, while downloadable titles tied to the logged-in user account appear automatically. Xbox One Controller Previous. Xbox One Console Design. © 1996-2018 Ziff Davis, LLC. We have updated our PRIVACY POLICY and encourage you to read it by clicking here. IGN uses cookies and other tracking technologies to customize online advertisements, and for other purposes. IGN supports the Digital Advertising Alliance principles. Learn More. All The Xbox One X Enhanced Games. Wielding Xbox One X's power. Last updated by Michael Higham on January 15, 2018 at 8:34AM. Please enter your date of birth to view this video. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's. You are now subscribed. The Xbox One X--the most powerful console to date--is upon us, and Microsoft has released a full list of games that will feature Xbox One X enhancements. Aaron Greenberg first alluded to the list during a livestream at Gamescom 2017 and mentioned Quantum Break and Halo 5: Guardians as key games to receive optimizations, but there are many more. Every game that receives Xbox One X enhancements will do so through free updates, which can include--but are not limited to--4K resolution (checkerboard or native), anisotropic filtering, HDR, and high-resolution textures. However, developers decide how their games take advantage of the more powerful hardware, so results may vary dramatically. As of right now, more than 100 Xbox One games have Enhanced updates; check out the entire list of confirmed enhanced games below, from what's available now, to what's coming, and what's still in development. Complete list of 'Xbox One X Enhanced' games (up to 4K, HDR) The Xbox One X brings a range of improvements upon the standard Xbox One console, with the promise of running 'enhanced' games as high as 4K resolution and 60 frames per second (FPS). Other improvements may include improved textures, high dynamic range (HDR) and support for Dolby Atmos. While 'Xbox One X Enhanced' games don't guarantee these improvements, they're more likely with the full power of the console. While it hides some powerful specs under the hood, games will need to be manually patched to leverage the full potential Xbox One X. A growing list of games are already 'Xbox One X Enhanced', having been purposely upgraded to take advantage of the hardware. More titles continue to be announced, so we've brought together a comprehensive list of all games getting updated for the new console, with their expected performance on the console. As more developers jump on board with confirmed Xbox One X support, we'll be sure to update this list. Xbox One X Enhanced games available now. These are all the "Enhanced" games available on Xbox One X today, with details on exactly what upgrades they deliver on the console. Xbox One X Enhanced games coming soon. While some games are yet to be updated for the Xbox One X, several developers have announced their plans to support the console going forward. These are the games announced so far, alongside information we could dig up on 4K and HDR support. A Plague Tale: Innocence A Way Out Anthem (4K, HDR) AO Tennis (4K, HDR) Ashen (4K, HDR) Away: Journey to the Unexpected Battlerite Below Biomutant (4K) Black Desert (4K) Brawlout (4K) Code Vein Crackdown 3 (4K, HDR) Dark and Light (4K) Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition (4K) Darksiders III (4K) Darksiders Warmastered Edition (4K) Deep Rock Galactic (4K, HDR) DOOM (4K) Dovetail Games Euro Fishing (4K) Dragon Ball FighterZ Dynasty Warriors 9 Elex (4K) Everspace (4K) Fable Fortune (4K) Far Cry 5 Fe Firewatch Gravel Greedfall Ginger: Beyond The Crystal Halo: The Master Chief Collection Immortal: Unchained Jurassic World Evolution Kingdom Come: Deliverance (1440p) Metal Gear Survive Metro: Exodus (4K, HDR) Minecraft (4K, HDR) Minion Masters Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Videogame Monster Hunter: World (HDR) MX vs ATV All Out (4K) (4K) Nine Parchments (4K) Observer (4K) ONRUSH Ooblets Ori and the Will of the Wisps (4K) Overwatch (4K) Railway Empire (4K, HDR) Rainbow Six Siege Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (4K, HDR) RiME (4K) Riverbond (4K) Roblox Robocraft Infinity (4K) Rocket League (4K, HDR) Sea of Thieves (4K, HDR) State of Decay 2 (4K, HDR) Strange Brigade (4K, HDR) Superhot (4K) Surviving Mars (4K) Tennis World Tour The Artful Escape (4K) The Crew 2 The Darwin Project (4K, HDR) The Division The Last Night (4K, HDR) The Long Dark Train Sim World TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge (4K) UFC 3 Unruly Heroes (4K, HDR) War Thunder (4K) Warframe We Happy Few (4K) Xbox One X Enhanced games available via backward compatibility. Alongside the Xbox One X launch, Microsoft announced a range of Xbox 360 games would be receiving Xbox One X upgrades. Going forward, several additional games are expected to hit the console. Microsoft has also debuted original Xbox backward compatibility on Xbox One, extending the program to 13 titles first shipped on the console. On Xbox One X, many games run at 16 times the resolution, or 1920p. Which existing (or upcoming) Xbox One games are you hoping to see get Xbox One X support? Let us know your top picks in the comments. Updated January 11, 2017: Added latest announced title, Rainbow Six Siege. All The Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Games. Here are the 385-plus games currently available in the backwards compatibility program. Last updated by Eddie Makuch on January 30, 2018 at 11:47AM. Please enter your date of birth to view this video. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's. You are now subscribed. The Xbox One's backwards compatibility feature, introduced in November 2015, lets you play original Xbox and Xbox 360 games on the current-gen console. But what games are available? We've rounded them all up--and we'll continue to update this post as new games are made available to the extensive list. More are added regularly, although new original Xbox games will be less common. [Updated January 30 with three more games] Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Lineup: Black BloodRayne 2 Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge Dead to Rights Fuzion Frenzy Grabbed by the Ghoulies The King of Fighters Neowave Ninja Gaiden Black Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Psychonauts Red Faction II Sid Meier's Pirates Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. 0 Day Attack on Earth 3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures A Kingdom for Keflings A World of Keflings Aegis Wing Age of Booty Alan Wake Alan Wake's American Nightmare Alice: Madness Returns Alien Hominid HD Altered Beast Anomaly Warzone Earth Arkanoid Live Army of Two Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed II Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Assassin's Creed III Assassin's Creed Revelations Assassin's Creed Rogue Assault Heroes 2 Asteroids & Deluxe AstroPop Aqua Babel Rising Band of Bugs Banjo Kazooie: Nuts n Bolts Banjo Tooie Banjo Kazooie Batman: Arkham Origins Battlefield: Bad Company Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Battlefield 3 BattleBlock Theater Battlestations: Midway Bayonetta Beat'n Groovy Bejeweled 2 Bejeweled 3 Bellator: MMA Onslaught Beyond Good & Evil HD Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 BioShock BioShock 2 BioShock Infinite Bloodforge Blood Knights Blood of the Werewolf BloodRayne: Betrayal Blue Dragon Bomberman Live: Battlefest Boom Boom Rocket Borderlands Borderlands 2 Bound by Flame Braid Brain Challenge Bullet Soul Bullet Soul: Infinite Burst Bully: Scholarship Edition Burnout Paradise Cabela's Alaskan Adventures Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 Cabela's Hunting Expeditions Cabela's Survival: Shadows of Katmai Call of Duty 2 Call of Duty 3 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Call of Duty: Black Ops Call of Duty: Black Ops II Call of Duty: Ghosts Call of Duty: World at War Call of Juarez Gunslinger Capcom Arcade Cabinet Carcassonne Cars: Mater-National Championship Cars 2 Castle Crashers Castlestorm Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Catherine The Cave Centipede & Millipede Child of Light Civilization: Revolution Clannad Commanders: Attack of the Genos Comic Jumper Comix Zone Condemned Contra Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Crazy Taxi Crystal Quest Crystal Defenders Cyber Troopers Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram The Darkness II -- added January 30 Dark Souls Dark Void Darksiders Darksiders II Daytona USA de Blob 2 Dead Rising 2: Case West Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Dead Space Dead Space 2 Dead Space 3 Dead Space Ignition Deadfall Adventures Deadliest Warrior: Legends Deadliest Warrior: The Game Deadly Premonition Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue Defense Grid Deus Ex: Human Revolution Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut Dig Dug Dirt 3 Dirt Showdown Discs of Tron Disney Bolt Disney Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two Domino Master Doom Doom II Doom 3: BFG Edition Doritos Crash Course Double Dragon: Neon Dragon Age: Origins Dragon's Lair Driver: San Franciso DuckTales Remastered Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara Dungeon Siege III E4: Every Extend Extra Extreme Earthworm Jim HD Earth Defense Force 2017 Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Encleverment Experiment Escape Dead Island F1 2014 Fable Anniversary Fable II Fable II Pub Games Fable III Faery: Legends of Avalon Fallout 3 Fallout: New Vegas Far Cry 2 Far Cry 3 Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Feeding Frenzy Feeding Frenzy 2 Fighting Vipers Final Fight: Double Impact Flashback Flock Forza Horizon Fret Nice Frogger Frogger 2 FunTown Mahjong Galaga Galaga Legions Galaga Legions DX Garou: Mark of the Wolves Gatling Gears Gears of War Gears of War 2 Gears of War 3 Gears of War: Judgment Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Ghostbusters Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Gin Rummy Girl Fight Goat Simulator Golden Axe Go! Go! Break Steady Golf: Tee It Up Grand Theft Auto IV Grid 2 Gripshift Guardian Heroes Gunstar Heroes Guwange Gyromancer Gyruss Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Halo: Combat Evolved Halo 3 Halo 3: ODST Campaign Edition Halo 4 Halo: Reach Halo: Spartan Assault Halo Wars Hard Corps: Uprising Hardwood Backgammon Hardwood Hearts Hardwood Spades Harms Way Haunted House Heavy Weapon Hexic 2 Hexic HD Hitman: Absolution Hydro Thunder I Am Alive Ikaruga Ilomilo Injustice: Gods Among Us + disc-only Ultimate Edition Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos Iron Brigade Jeremy McGrath's Offroad Jet Set Radio Jetpac Refuelled Jewel Quest Joe Danger Special Edition Joe Danger 2: The Movie Joust Joy Ride Turbo Juju Jurassic Park: The Game Just Cause 2 Kameo Kane & Lynch 2 Killer Is Dead The King of Fighters '98 The King of Fighters 2002 KOF Sky Stage Lazy Raiders Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead 2 Lego Batman Lego Indiana Jones Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga Limbo Lode Runner Lost Odyssey Lumines Live! Luxor 2 Mad Tracks Magic: The Gathering 2012 Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death Mars: War Logs Mass Effect Mass Effect 2 Mass Effect 3 Matt Hazard: Blood, Bath, and Beyond The Maw Medal of Honor: Airborne Meet the Robinsons Mega Man 9 Mega Man 10 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Metal Slug 3 Metal Slug XX Midway Arcade Origins Might & Magic Clash of Heroes Military Madness Mirror's Edge The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom -- added January 30 Missile Command Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine Monday Night Combat Monkey Island: SE Monkey Island 2: SE Monopoly Deal Moon Diver Motocross Madness Ms. Splosion Man Ms Pac-Man Mutant Blobs Attack Mutant Storm Empire Mutant Storm Reloaded MX vs. ATV Reflex N+ NBA Jam: On Fire Edition Neogeo Battle Coliseum Nights Into Dreams Of Orcs and Men Omega Five Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Operation Flashpoint: Red River The Orange Box Outland Pac-Man Pac-Man C.E Pac-Man CE DX+ Pac-Man Museum Peggle Peggle 2 Perfect Dark Perfect Dark Zero Persona 4 Arena Phantasy Star II Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Pinball FX Planets Under Attack Plants vs. Zombies Poker Smash Portal: Still Alive Portal 2 Prince of Persia Pure Putty Squad Puzzle Quest Puzzle Quest 2 Puzzle Quest: Galactrix QIX++ Puzzlegeddon Rage Raiden IV Raskulls Rayman 3 HD Rayman Legends Rayman Origins Red Dead Redemption Red Faction: Armageddon Red Faction: Battlegrounds RoboBlitz Rocket Knight R-Type Dimensions Runner 2 Sacred 3 Sacred Citadel Saints Row: The Third Saints Row IV Sam & Max: Beyond Time & Space Sam & Max Save the World Samurai Shodown II Scarygirl Scrap Metal ScreamRide Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co. Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage Sega Vintage Collection: ToeJam & Earl Shadow Assault/Tenchu Shadow Complex Shadowrun Shadows of the Damned Shank 2 Shinobi Shred Nebula Shotest Shogi Silent Hill: Downpour Skate 3 Skullgirls Skydive Slender: The Arrival Small Arms Sniper Elite V2 Soltrio Solitaire Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Sonic & Knuckles Sonic Adventure Sonic Adventure 2 Sonic CD Sonic The Fighters Sonic The Hedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode II Soulcalibur Soulcalibur II South Park: The Stick of Truth Space Ark Space Giraffe Space Invaders Infinity Gene Spec Ops: The Line -- added January 30 Spelunky The Splatters Split/Second Splosion Man SSX Stacking Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Steins; Gate 比翼恋理のだーりん (Japan only) Steins; Gate (オリジナル版) (Japan only) Steins; Gate 線形拘束のフェノグラム (Japan-only, requires game disc) Strania Street Fighter IV Stuntman: Ignition Super Contra Super Meat Boy Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Supreme Commander 2 Syberia Tecmo Bowl Throwback Tekken 6 Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Texas Hold 'Em Ticket to Ride TimeShift Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Tomb Raider: Underworld Torchlight Tour de France 2009 Tour de France 2011 Toy Soldiers Toy Soldiers Cold War Toy Story 3 Tower Bloxx Deluxe Trials HD Trine 2 Tron: Evolution Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon Unbound Saga Undertow Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Viva Piñata Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series The Walking Dead: Season 2 - A Telltale Games Series The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Wolfenstein 3D World Puzzle XCOM: Enemy Unknown Yosumin Live Zuma Zuma's Revenge. Don't see your favorite game here? Microsoft has said it is holding discussions with all major publishers and developers to possibly bring their games to the program. However, the decision about whether or not a game is added to the lineup ultimately comes down to individual publishers. There's no guarantee everything will eventually be added. What do you make of the lineup so far? And what games would you like to see added in the future? Let us know in the comments below! Xbox One Backwards Compatibility List: All the Xbox 360 games you can play on Xbox One. Xbox One backwards compatibility – How to play Xbox 360 games on Xbox One. Backwards compatibility is an incredibly popular feature on Microsoft’s console, with a growing list of titles well worth checking out. The Xbox 360 had a wonderful library of games, and it’s awesome to see them running our our shiny new Xbox Ones. Microsoft recently revealed the first 13 original Xbox games coming to backward compatibility, and you can find the full list below: Black (Electronic Arts) BloodRayne 2 (Majesco Entertainment) Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge (Microsoft) Dead to Rights (Bandai Namco) Fuzion Frenzy (Microsoft) Grabbed by the Ghoulies (Microsoft) Ninja Gaiden Black (Koei Tecmo) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Ubisoft) Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions) Red Faction II (THQ Nordic) Sid Meier’s Pirates! (2K Games) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Electronic Arts) The King of Fighters Neowave (SNK) Playing Xbox 360 titles on Xbox One is free and simple All you need to do is insert a Xbox 360 disc into your system or download it directly from the online marketplace. Much like Xbox One games, everything is installed straight to your hard drive, so make sure you’ve got enough space. All of the digital downloads linked to your account will be available straight away, so long as the game is supported by Microsoft. Your achievements, cloud saves and whatnot also carry over. If you’re an Xbox Live Gold member, many of the games found in Microsoft’s Games with Gold service are backward compatible, giving you a handful of new games to play around with each and every month. It’s interesting to note that the PS4 is still not backwards compatible, with Sony instead throwing its eggs into the Playstation Now service basket. This lets you rent PS3 titles and stream them to your PS4 along with select Sony Bravia Smart TVs and Sony Blu-ray players. But, this comes at a cost. Two-day rentals on PlayStation Now start at £2.99, with the majority of high-profile titles actually costing a steep £4.99 to rent for two-days going up to £7.99 for a 30-day rental period. Xbox One backwards compatibility – How does it work? “One of the features that we’ve had a lot of requests for — and very vocals requests for — is the ability to run Xbox 360 apps on Xbox One, which is quite difficult to do,” explained Microsoft’s Product Evangelist for Windows 10, Ian Moulster. “It is easy to conceptualise, but actually quite difficult to achieve.” To turn the Xbox One into a backwards compatible machine, Microsoft has built an Xbox 360 emulator that will run on the new console. This basically means that Microsoft has essentially built an Xbox 360 in software, which then runs within the Xbox One. This emulator does all the same things as the Xbox 360, but it just sits inside the newer console. The emulator springs into life when you insert a compatible Xbox 360 disc and lets you download and install the title right to your HDD. You’ll notice that any Xbox 360 game you have installed on your Xbox One will be shown with an Xbox 360 logo strip down the left hand side, so you can quickly distinguish between your old and new games at a glance. Sign up for the newsletter. Get news, competitions and special offers direct to your inbox. As you had to with the Xbox 360, you’ll need to keep the game disc in the tray while you play, but you won’t need to be connected to the internet unless you want to access any of the game’s online components. We’ve tried it with Mass Effect and all you need to do is insert the disc and wait for it to boot up. Then you’re ready to play. If you’ve previously purchased any compatible Xbox 360 titles from the Store, these will automatically show up in the right-hand panel of your “My Games” section of your Xbox One, where it lists games that are “Ready to Install”. You can then pick and choose which games out of your Xbox 360 collection you wish to install on your Xbox One — after all you might not have space for all of them. We tried out Super Meat Boy in this way, and again, all you need to do is download it and you’re off. What’s great about the Xbox One backwards compatibility service is that even though it’s running your Xbox 360 games within an emulator, you can still take advantage of the Xbox One features while you play. That includes Game DVR, the ability to snap an application to your game and broadcast your gameplay. Well, we say that, but the recent announcement that Borderlands is one of the games coming to the Xbox One backwards compatibility service was surrounded by some concern. While we were certainly delighted we could play our old Borderlands game on the Xbox One, it quickly came to light that the game’s backwards compatibility is limited. You can’t utilise all the Xbox One features when you play Borderlands it seems, with screenshots and gameplay capture inaccessible. “This is expected. Unfortunately, recording/screenshots are turned off for Borderlands,” explained a Microsoft representative. When pressed for more details, Microsoft said that this was down to a “licensing” issue. This could well be an issue that you’ll find with future Xbox One backwards compatible titles, but it’s defintiely something we can put up with for the ease of use with the upcoming service. Backwards Compatibility and multi-disc games. Xbox’s Major Nelson recently confirmed in a Reddit post that Xbox One’s backwards compatibility now works for games with multiple discs. “I can confirm that the BC [backwards compatibility] team has done work to support multi disc scenarios. Be sure to thank the BC engineers,” Major Nelson wrote. So now it seems the possibilities are truly endless when it comes to backwards compatibility on Xbox One. For those looking for a bit of nostalgia amongst all their new and shiny gaming goodness, we could be seeing plenty more available. Xbox One backwards compatibility – How much does it cost? Unlike Playstation’s Now streaming service, which charges for all games even if you previously owned them, this Xbox 360 emulation on Xbox One will be completely free for all supported games. That’s definitely a nice touch. “It is free. You don’t have to pay for the emulator. You don’t have to pay again for the games or anything. They’re your games. It just works,” added Moulster. Xbox One backwards compatibility – When’s it coming? Xbox One backwards compatibility is available now for all users. Xbox One backwards compatibility – What games are supported? Xbox One currently has over 200 games supported via backwards compatibility. We’ve provided the full list of them below, or you can head to Xbox.com/BackCompat to keep abreast of any additions Microsoft makes. Here’s the list so far: A Kingdom for Keflings A World of Keflings Age of Booty Alan Wake Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Alice: Madness Returns Alien Hominid HD Altered Beast Anomaly Warzone Earth Aqua ARKANOID Live! Army of Two Assassin’s Creed Assassin’s Creed II Assassin’s Creed III Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Assassin’s Creed Revelations Assassin’s Creed® Rogue Assault Heroes 2 Asteroids & Deluxe Astropop. Babel Rising Band of Bugs Banjo Kazooie Banjo Kazooie: N n B Banjo Tooie Batman: Arkham Origins BattleBlock Theater Battlefield 3™ Battlefield: Bad Co. 2 Battlefield: Bad Company Battlestations: Midway BAYONETTA Beat’n Groovy Bejeweled 2 Bejeweled 3 Bellator: MMA Onslaught Beyond Good & Evil HD Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 Bioshock Bioshock 2 Bioshock Infinite Blazing Angels Blood Knights Blood of the Werewolf Bloodforge BloodRayne: Betrayal Blue Dragon Bomberman Battlefest Boom Boom Rocket Borderlands Borderlands 2 Bound by Flame Braid Brain Challenge™ Bully: Scholarship Ed Burnout Paradise. Cabela’s Alaskan Adventures Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013 Cabela’s Survival: SoK Call of Duty® 2 Call of Duty® 3 Call of Duty®: Black Ops Call of Duty®: Black Ops II Call of Duty®: Ghosts Call of Duty®: World at War Call of Juarez® Gunslinger CAPCOM ARCADE CABINET Carcassonne Cars 2: The Video Game Castle Crashers Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Castlestorm Castlevania: SOTN Catherine Centipede & Millipede Civilization Revolution Comic Jumper Comix Zone Commaders: Attack Condemned Contra Counter-Strike: GO Crazy Taxi CRYSTAL DEFENDERS™ Crystal Quest. Darksiders Darksiders II Dark Souls Dark Void DAYTONA USA de Blob 2 Dead Rising 2: Case West Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Dead Space™ Dead Space™ 2 Dead Space™ 3 Dead Space™ Ignition Deadliest Warrior: Legends Deadliest Warriors: The Game Deathspank T.O.V. Defense Grid DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION DIG DUG DiRT 3 DiRT Showdown Disney’s Bolt Discs of Tron Domino Master Doom Doom II DOOM 3 BFG Edition Doritos Crash Course Double Dragon Neon Dragon Age: Origins Dragon’s Lair Driver San Fransisco Duck Tales: Remastered Duke Nukem Manhattan Project D&D: Chronicles of Mystara Dungeon Siege III. E4 Earthworm Jim HD Eat Lead Encleverment Experiment Escape Dead Island. Fable Anniversary Fable II Fable II Pub Games Fable III Faery: Legends of Avalon Fallout 3 Fallout: New Vegas Far Cry 2 Far Cry 3 Far Cry 3® Blood Dragon Feeding Frenzy Feeding Frenzy 2 Fighting Vipers Final Fight: Double Impact Flashback FLOCK! Forza Horizon Foul Play Fret Nice Frogger Frogger 2 FunTown Mahjong. Galaga Galaga Legions Galaga Legions DX GAROU -MARK OF THE WOLVES Gatling Gears Gears of War Gears of War 2 Gears of War 3 Gears of War: Judgment Geometry Wars Evolved Geometry Wars Evolved² Geometry Wars™ 3: Dimensions Evolved Ghostbusters Gin Rummy Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Golden Axe Golf: Tee It Up! Go! Go! Break Steady GTA IV Grid 2 Gripshift Guardian Heroes (TM) Gunstar Heroes Guwange Gyromancer. HALF-MINUTE HERO -Super Mega Neo- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Halo 3 Halo 4 Halo: ODST Halo: Reach Halo: Spartan Assault Halo Wars Hard Corps: Uprising Hardwood Backgammon Hardwood Hearts Hardwood Spades Harms Way Haunted House Heavy Weapon Hexic 2 Hexic HD Hitman: Absolution Hydro Thunder. I am Alive™ Ikaruga ilomilo Injustice: Gods Among Us Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Interpol Iron Brigade. Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad Jet Set Radio Jetpac Refuelled Joe Danger Special Edition Joe Danger 2: The Movie Joust Joy Ride Turbo JUJU Just Cause 2. 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The Splatters™ TEKKEN 6 Telltale’s The Walking Dead Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 2 Telltale’s The Walking Dead: Michonne Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Texas Hold’em The Cave The King of Fighters 98 The Maw The Orange Box The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Ticket to Ride TimeShift Torchlight Tour de France 2009 Tour de France Tower Bloxx Deluxe Toy Soldiers Toy Soldiers Cold War Trials HD Toy Story 3 Triggerheart Exelica Trine 2 Tron: Evolution. Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon Unbound Saga. Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Virtual-On OT Viva Piñata Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise. Wolfenstein 3D Word Puzzle WOTB: Commando 3. XCOM®: Enemy Unknown XCOM®: Enemy Within. Zuma Zuma’s Revenge! No doubt those numbers will continue to grow as developers and Microsoft work together to get the entire Xbox 360 catalogue supported. All the developers need to do is to approve Microsoft’s access and then Microsoft itself does a bit of work to make it compatible. And, so far, developers have been keen to get on board. “Certainly no-one has said no, and you can understand why. I mean why wouldn’t you. The choice of which games we pick are based on how popular the game is, what ratings it’s got and what the fans vote for,” explained Moulster. The only restrictions to the full Xbox 360 games catalogue being ported over is peripherals. Sadly, you won’t ever be able to play Xbox 360 Kinect games on the Xbox One, because you can’t connect your old Kinect to the new machine. And the new Kinect isn’t compatible with the older titles due to its advanced technology. General performance with backwards compatible games has proven to be quite divisive. Some games are a notable improvement over Xbox 360, while others fail to maintain a solid framerate due to the emulation. With any luck this will improve over time as Microsoft refines and updates the feature. Also, the same can be said for games like Guitar Hero or Rock Band due to the same hardware issues. Why wasn’t the Xbox One initially backwards compatible? The Xbox One is fundamentally different to the Xbox 360. It uses a x86-64 processor architecture processor, just like most current PCs and laptops, as opposed to the Xbox 360’s PowerPC (PPC) chip. Why did Microsoft choose to shift to this architecture? The reasons are simple – it wanted to keep costs low and make game developers’ lives easier. It’s arguable that the PowerPC architecture is better than the x86 one – it’s newer for a start, PPC was created by Motorola, IBM and Apple to compete with Intel in the 90s. However since then the PPC architecture has lost favour, primarily because it was a lot cheaper to manufacture x86 processors. This is down to scale – practically every PC and laptop uses one. There’s more to it though. AMD and Intel aggressively invested in the technology and advanced x86 at a faster rate than the PPC backers could cope with. In the end even Apple dumped PPC in 2006 and switched to Intel x86 processors for their iMac and Macbook ranges. More power at a lower cost means a cheaper console to produce. Some of those savings are even passed onto the consumer. Win-win, sort of. The second aspect is, perhaps, more interesting. Having the same x86 architecture as the PC means that games can be ported much more easily from the Xbox One to PC, and vice-versa. This means less complexity, shorter development times and fewer dodgy ports – the bane of many a gamer. In addition the PS4 also uses a very similar x86 AMD Jaguar processor, which will further help developers when creating cross-platform games. Xbox One backwards compatibility – Can I use my Xbox 360 controller? The Xbox 360 controller won’t work with the new Xbox One. That means that you will need to purchase extra controllers for same screen multiplayer action. An Xbox One controller with with play and charge kit will set you back £59.99 or £44.99 for it without the extra battery. In the US that’s $75 and $60 respectively. Microsoft has also just announced a rather fantastic looking ‘Elite’ controller. This lets you customise your game with replaceable triggers, a new stainless steel d-pad and a host of other improvements. It’s available now for £129.99. Yes, that much. Xbox One backwards compatibility – Can I use my Xbox 360 Kinect? Once again the answer is no, but it’s less of a problem than the controller incompatibility. Some Xbox One bundles still come bundled with the new Kinect but you can also pick them up separately. All Xbox One X Enhanced Games and Their Improvements. Microsoft’s Xbox One X console officially launches on November 7, less than three days from now. With launch so near the ever-growing list of Xbox One X-enhanced games planned for release can now be considered as near to final as it will get. Microsoft’s official list of enhanced titles features over 150 games, many which will be available at launch. The majority of updates may be arriving in the months ahead, but there’s no denying the Xbox One X’s library of enhanced titles will be robust from launch onward. While the list doesn’t provide full details regarding just how each of the games has been enhanced for the Xbox One X, it does note certain specific areas of particular interest to buyers. Namely, it lists whether a game’s Xbox One X update will deliver 4K resolution and whether it will provide support for HDR. Only around a third of games plan on producing 4K output, which may be surprising to some. But it ultimately says that most developers see the new hardware as an opportunity to improve their games in different ways than resolution. The full list of Xbox One X enhanced titles can be found on Microsoft’s official website, so for the sake of an attempt at brevity here is just the list of titles with updates tagged as “Available Now”: Ashes Cricket (4K, HDR) Assassin’s Creed Origins (4K, HDR) Call of Duty: WW2 (4K, HDR) Crossout (4K) Danger Zone (4K) Dead Rising 4 (HDR) Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition (4K) Disneyland Adventures (4K, HDR) EA Sports FIFA 18 (4K, HDR) EA Sports Madden NFL 18 (4K, HDR) EA Sports NBA Live 18 (4K) F1 2017 (4K, HDR) Fallout 3 Farming Simulator 17 (4K) Forza Motorsport 7 (4K, HDR) Gears of War 4 (4K, HDR) GRIDD: Retroenhanced (4K, HDR) Halo 3 Halo 5: Guardians (4K) Halo Wars 2 (4K, HDR) Killer Instinct (4K) L.A. Noire (4K, HDR) Mantis Burn Racing (4K, HDR) Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Morphite (4K) Need for Speed Payback Outlast 2 (4K) Path of Exile (4K) Portal Knights (4K) Project CARS 2 (HDR) Quantum Break Rise of the Tomb Raider (4K, HDR) Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure (4K, HDR) Sonic Forces Super Lucky’s Tale (4K) Super Night Riders (4K) The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Titanfall 2 Transcripted World of Tanks (4K, HDR) Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection (4K, HDR) Prominent recent releases that are absent from this list including Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus , The Evil Within 2 , Middle-earth: Shadow of War , Final Fantasy 15 , and others are almost all listed as “Coming Soon.” Forthcoming releases, some of which Microsoft is already listing as ready, are more difficult to discern. Star Wars: Battlefront 2 , for instance, is listed as “Coming Soon” as well. But does that mean an update will be ready for launch? It’s important to note here that Microsoft’s list of Xbox One X enhanced titles is actually a very conservative collection. This is likely due to business or contractual reasons, so as not to misrepresent plans that may be delayed. Community-sourced lists are more open to taking developer promises on word alone. For example, both Wolfenstein 2 and Minecraft are commonly said to be ready for November 7th, despite Microsoft listing them as “Coming Soon.” Community lists are also willing to provide more detail on Xbox One X enhancements, where available. Assassin’s Creed Origins , for example, will not only be adding 4K and HDR, but also Dolby Atmos functionality, increased draw distances, and faster transition loading. Gears of War 4 will offer a 1080p mode with improved textures, dynamic shadows, and fancier reflections on top of its 4K mode. The lesson is that, while 4K and HDR are primary focuses for marketing the Xbox One X, each developer is using the console’s impressive hardware in myriad different ways. Some are just scaling up resolution in order to get a patch out for launch day. Others are taking their time to ensure they use up every bit of the console’s extra power. 4K as a standard resolution is something even PC titles aren’t wholly used to. Expect Xbox One X enhancements to only grow more common and more impressive over time. The Xbox One X launches on November 7 and is currently available for pre-order in very limited quantity. Upcoming. Crackdown 3 (Microsoft) [Pending] Natsuki Chronicle (Qute) Sea of Thieves (Microsoft) State of Decay 2 (Microsoft) [Pending] Shooting Love Trilogy (Triangle Service) [Pending] Yomi wo Saku Hana (Experience) The Artful Escape (Annapurna Interactive) Ashen (Annapurna Interactive) Bacon Man: An Adventure (Skymap Games) Below (Capybara Games) Black Desert Online (Pearl Abyss) Brief Battles (Juicy Cupcake) Calibre 10 Racing Series (Bongfish) The Darwin Project (Scavengers Studio) Deep Rock Galactic Dive (Coffee Stain Publishing) Enki (Storm in a Teacup) Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China (Ace Maddox) Gemini (Echostone Games) Glitchrunners (Torque Studios) Grabbles (Noble Whale) The Last Night (Raw Fury) Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Microsoft) Ostrich Island: Escape from Paradise (MeDungeon Games) Raging Justice (MakinGames) Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days (Big Star Games) Soccertron (Erosa Games) Spaera (Blazing Orb) Swordy (Frogshark) The Toilet Chronicles (The Pyxel Pub) Turok (Night Dive Studios) [Import] Azito x Tatsunoko Legends (Hamster) [Import] Chaos;Child (5pb.) Dead Rising 3 (Microsoft) Dead Rising 4 (Microsoft) Disneyland Adventures (Microsoft) Fantasia: Music Evolved (Disney Interactive) Fighter Within (Ubisoft) Forza Horizon 2 (Microsoft) Forza Horizon 3 (Microsoft) Forza Motorsport 5 (Microsoft) Forza Motorsport 6 (Microsoft) Forza Motorsport 7 (Microsoft) Gears of War: Ultimate Edition (Microsoft) Gears of War 4 (Microsoft) Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Microsoft) Halo 5: Guardians (Microsoft) Halo Wars 2 (Microsoft) Hello Neighbor (tinyBuild Games) Kinect Sports Rivals (Microsoft) Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (EA) Powerstar Golf (Microsoft) Project Spark (Microsoft) [Import] Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness (5pb.) Quantum Break (Microsoft) Rare Replay (Microsoft) ReCore (Microsoft) Rise of the Tomb Raider (Square Enix) Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure (Microsoft) Ryse: Son of Rome (Microsoft) ScreamRide (Microsoft) Shape Up (Ubisoft) State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition (Microsoft) Sunset Overdrive (Microsoft) Super Lucky’s Tale (Microsoft) Titanfall (EA) Zoo Tycoon (Microsoft) Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection (Microsoft) The Best Free Games on the Xbox One. With so much money being generated by titles like Candy Crush Saga and Clash Royale on phones and tablets, it’s entirely reasonable that the game industry is taking the free-to-play model very seriously these days on every platform. We’ve done our share of groaning about the nickel-and-diming tactics found on the App Store and Google Play, but there’s still much to enjoy about the free-to-play model when it’s done well. Dota 2 and League of Legends on the PC are some of the most popular games in existence – both of which are free-to-play titles. Frankly, it’s beyond silly to write off the model entirely when there’s so much critical and commercial success. Clearly, this is more than just a passing fad, and console devs are working hard to get some of that alluring micro-transaction cash. Now let’s jump in, and explore what the free-to-play model has to offer for the average Xbox One or Xbox One X (see on Amazon) player. I’d buy that for a dollar. While console gamers have grown accustomed to dropping $60 (or more) on a game, it’s good to see more variety in the marketplace. And just like a large price tag may not fit a small-scale indie game, it’s important to remember that the free-to-play model isn’t one-size-fits-all either. F2P is definitely here to stay, but not at the expense of other business models — in conjunction. Poorly made free-to-play games can easily leave a bad taste in your mouth, but it’s not fair to dismiss the entire concept outright. After all, we’ve seen numerous free-to-play games on the PC garner massive critical acclaim, and the concept is still relatively novel on consoles. Give these games a chance, and you might just find a game that you really love. Post a Comment Comment. Requires Xbox Live to obtain, and play, thus=not free. That is untrue to the best of my knowledge. You can download the client, and “Gatorade Sports Performance Football Training Camp” for $0 regardless of Gold status as far as I understand. nope, xblg required, part of free for gold program. I don’t have an Xbone here in the office, but I just now “bought” both the client and the “Gatorade Sports Performance Football Training Camp” online for $0. I don’t have XBL gold, and there were no disclaimers AT ALL about needing XBL gold. Obviously, you need to have gold for unlimited access, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m referring to this one specific routine “purchased” for $0 like you would buy one of the other programs for $60. Also, I just went through Xbox support, and asked if I can play Xbox Fitness DLC sans gold membership, and the answer was “Yes.” To be fair, it was really hard to explain it to the agent in a way that he would understand, so ya know. This issue is apparently more complicated than it would seem. Get on an xb1 without gold, see howfat that goes… not free, (KI is, but thats just a demo anyways..) every live account you start gives you a small amount of gold time if im correct and after you are downgraded to silver….but none of the games on this list were games that required xboxlive gold except warframe which is an all online game. ive downloaded plenty of games without having gold…i bought minecraft without gold and downloaded neverwinter without gold soooo do you even have a live account? CANT PLAY WITHOUT GOLD….. Games, like warframe, are free to play on ALL other platforms BUT xbox…… Do you even internet? I have each game you have stated that you are unable to play and i am able to play them all wothout my xbox one live so i have no live and am still playing games like neverwinter and warframe on my xbox do YOU even internet. So full of shit, haha. YOU ARE WRONG_ DO YOU EVEN OWN A XBOX!? you can get LIVE SILVER which is free and thus allows you to web connect and download the above games. My Uncle Max recently got a new black MINI Cooper Roadster Convertible by working parttime off of a macbook air. check this……>> -> START MAKING ONLINE EARNINGS EASILY. <- People used to bash XBLG service because PSN was free. But XBLG was clearly superior in every way. Now PSN is a paid subscription and people are still bashing XBLG. I don’t get it. You can literally buy XBLG for $40 a year if you wait for a sale somewhere that seems to happen every month. Under $4 for a lag free service with free stuff every month. What more do you want? PSN is awesome too with their free games. What people need to complain about is the nickel and dime DLC tactics by developers. They can’t increase game prices so they just give you an incomplete game and force you to buy DLCs. DLCs used to be extras. Now you just get things that should’ve came with the game. When a developer launch a game with DLCs ready, you know it’s BS. I pay for ps+, they tell me what I am paying for, and that is what I am getting… msft though claims its all for the servers (which it has plenty of, but xbk barely gets 1% of that whole 300k server pool they talk about, on top of the fact that most of the people, playing most of the games most of the time are not on xbl servers.. they are playing on that 3rd party game server. Msft is selling people something they aren’t getting, sony sells exactly what they say is being sold (and pays for itself, years worth every month, … I feel like I am stealing from sony really.) Unfortunately due to the amount of time PSN spends having maintenance its value for money is very low. I want to be able to play when i want not find that the system is down for maintenance again. Frequent maintenance to continue offering more of the best games and services to almost 10 times more users than xbl and all while making sure we don’t have our identities and credit cards stolen every 7 minutes like on xbl….uh.. yes please? Better security, service, and stability> being hacked on silly xbl. The only time i have ever had my data at risk on a console was on my PS3. I have always bought both systems and do not have the hatred that you seem to have for one or the other. I game for fun, so have both systems to be able to take the best of both worlds. Limiting yourself because of some unrepaid loyalty to a brand that doesn’t really even know you exist is ridiculous. The maintenance that has been happening on the PS4 is not planned so trying to spin it as a positive is again ridiculous. From my own personal experience two of the last three things you mention Security and stability have been better on the Xbox. The service offered by Sony has always been top class. er… your data was at risk on ps3? how’s that? did you make your pw : 12345? or your pet’s name? or literally PassWord?….. wait.. I bet I know what you are going to reference.. the “great hack” of psn right? where NO USER ACCOUNT DATA WAS ACTUALLY ACCESSED according to the FBI…..Which was resolved fairly swiftly (srsly.. they rebuilt the entire PSN after that) and just in case there was a 1 million dollar insurance for every user, and compensation for something that wasn’t even being payed for at the time. While it is obvious you have a slight Bias to Playstation i will try to have a conversation with you. As i stated quite clearly my playstation was at risk. I did not lose any data but did have to go through the inconveniance of changing all my passwords as advised by Sony. If i remember correctly Sony also gave a free game as an apology for the inconvenience, which was welcomed. The new super dooper PSN you referred to was hacked again as recently as August, hmmmm. I have said before i own and enjoy both consoles. I can see the benefits of both consoles and because i do ot limit myself i can access the best games on both consoles. I do not care about 1080p, I do not that i have to pay a yearly subscription (to both). Gaming is about fun and enjoyment with friends, a lot of people this gen seem to have lost that and get their kicks from antagonising others over their choices. Enjoy your console as i enjoy both of mine. that wasn’t hack.. fyi, was a DDoS.. which NOTHING can prevent, and is itself not a security threat. I have no bias for or against a company in this industry, My bias is for or against a product, based solely on its capabilities costs, or lack thereof. It’s ok, I understand you aren’t as knowledgeable on the subject, but again, please refrain from inserting your misconceptions as though they were fact. Your manner on forums certainly requires work. I had a look through some of your previous posts and it appears that i am not the first person to call you up on some of your so called factual statements. I wonder how much time you have actually spent using the Xbox, probably little to none though im sure you will state otherwise. Its a shame as your prejudice is stopping you from experience some great games. That’s your choice though which you are free to make. So enjoy what you have, i wish you many hours of happy gaming. ah, deflection.. you forget (since you have read all my posts) I own an xb1 at my shop, anything I need to play on it I play there, and run side by side against ps4 and 2 tiers of PC builds all for customers to SEE the differences. Business must be slow if you have time to play on your Xbox. I did say how much time you spend using the Xbox, never stated you didn’t have one. Anyway i will leave this here although i await your final reply as i know that you will want the final say. Thank you. still avoiding the foundation of your argument eh? Nice job forgetting about that. anyways, yes, I do have time in the store I own to play the xb1 in it, and time is allotted to all of my employees to use the equipment we sell as I would prefer they have an experienced understanding of the products and not just the tested knowledge of them, unlike certain large chain stores who have “geeks” and “genius” types hovering about like used car salesmen, lacking even the most basic knowledge on the product or tech involved and only caring about that one sale. Been doing fine for 31 years with a customer base covering 9 towns… I think I’m doing just fine. What has any of that blowing your own trumpet nonsense you’ve just spouted have to do with psn being superior in your opinion? More like you think YOU are superior, and your opinion is the only one that matters, it must frustrate the s*#t out of you seeing us in subordinate lowlives having our own opinions and not cowtailing to yours.. I bet you’ve gone all pink with rage that somebody who doesn’t own a shop(big deal mate get over yourself) could possibly disagree with you. Owning a shop for however many years is irrelevant come to think of it so are you and I feel like I’ve wasted 2 minutes of my life on trying to converse with you. Ownership of a game shop obviously doesn’t promote intelligence eh? I learned long ago to not argue with PS fans. I own every every sytem and have 4 TVS in my living room for my family and the only obvious difference in PS/XB history is the original XB has noticeably better graphics than PS2. The 360/PS3 and XB1/PS4 games look the same, i’ve played dozens of them side-by-side. I have no preference as both companies have excellent exclusives, but in the end both have games that make me think “this is the most beautiful blah blah blah…” The only reasons I prefer XB is the controller feels far superior (just my opinion) and XB live has always been way more appealing TO ME. Both companies make great systems and games that push the other to respond, and they constantly one-up each other…to our (the non-biased) advantage. Choosing one side means you’re missing out. like you did by stating you can only get free games with gold which is not true, you come across badly here dude. Did you just wait a whole year to be wrong? Go shill elswhere. You’re a horrible troll. Particularly when you run your uninformed childish brand-loyal (pathetic no matter what platform you’re freely spamming for) BS mouth about uptime & security. = one of the largest data/user breaches of all time, including CC#’s. we could go on and on and on and on, but you’re just some pathetic kid that’s trolling an Xbox article that doesn’t even mention PS. Grow up. Get some hair. Go outside. Get laid. Do something. Finally a comment i can agree with. Well said. stfu Sony fan boy! If you remember ps3 everything went down for like 2 months where nobody could get online to do anything xbox has not had that happen during the time ive owned one granted i still enjoy my ps4 and xbox one just the same as any other system ive ever had because theyre just games and its just for fun if it were real life shit going on that would be a different story. That was psn, hacked in 2011, was down for 27 days, could still play games, and use apps and any onl e game that didn’t use psn for services. 27 days… not a single account looked at let alonr stolen from. While there has not been a single period lime that on xbl, xbl hets brought down by hacking more frequently and in total far more than 27 days… the cumulative number of days either system has been down shows xbl down significantly more, on top of being less secure (an account is highjaked every 7 minutes on xbl, and issue that has happened even to top brass accounts. It’s funny, because people like to talk about how msft has all these servers (but xbl gets less than 1% of these to operate on in reality). They claim it better because it has been forcibly taking subscription money for nearly a decade already. It has far fewer users and far less mefia and services to bog it down. And yet, it is slower than psn, don more often, and less secure (second to steam in this regard). None of these systems are immune to the whims of these ddos kids, but an argument can easily be made as to which is better or worse. Which has more uptime? Which has more account theft due to their own security flaws and not the individual’s? Which consistently has faster download speeds? Which has more media and services? Which costs more or less? It was Sony that got hacked and everyone’s details were stolen causing the psn to close not xbl doofus, facts mate do you know any? All you prove with your obvious bias is that playstation is in its entirety a fanboy console as you won’t be swayed by pesky facts in your unwavering defence for a poorly developed machine. I too used to be a fanboy for Sony advocating all then I realised Sony have consistently taken the p*s# out of the consumer, by rushing the release of ps3 and the birth of psn they didn’t seem to worry about hackers, thinking instead nobody would dare…. Epic fail, I’ve had all Sony consoles up to the ps3 and the catastrophic hack drama then I sold it and got an Xbox 360 and now have and xbox 1 which allows me to use cross platform xbl and share it with everyone on my home network so there are 3 of us with gold for £6 a month. 2 times as many users mate or do you really think 500 million people are on psn……. Fanboy. dude….remember when psn was down for like 2 months because they got hacked and user data was getting released. 27 days, no user data eas even accessed let alone stolen by the hack, still they rebuilt psn, offered insurances (which none had been requested) and gave users, who pay nothing for use of their network, free ps plus time and games…. (weird how evidence discovered and reported by the FBI is different than your misconception of a tale……) I know this is a later response but I’m going to point something out. Try to look at it with an open mind. Mind you I’m not taking a side in this debate but i do want to note that if data wasn’t in danger in the latest hack then why offer insurance why even need it. The fact that they offered insurance shows that they were worried about data having fallen into someones hands where it didn’t belong. In all honesty I agree when people say that Xbox live is much more stable. Because it is prudent, rather than only reacting if or when there is a problem they took action in the case of such, a contingency. The FBI had already proven that account data hadn’t even been looked at, let alone accessed. When we question these claims these people make, and search them out, we chip away the tales and get to the truth, and it is in this truth that we learn xbl is not what they believe it is. In the end it still comes down to worry even if its prudent. Its the worry about what if i dont do something and something bad happens. In this case it was better safe then sorry is basically what you are saying. How many companies run into the same security issues as many times as sony. Does gmail have issues keeping things secure, what about Dropbox, or better yet Samsung. Have you ever heard of the google play store getting hacked? The answer is no its cause they keep things tight and work hard to protect you. I know what you are gonna say those are all massive corporations and have money to spend on that stuff. But then the question is when does it become negligent. Do you think its wise to wait till you have a serious issue to start investing in proper security. Think of it as leaving the house unlocked while your on vacation. Would you leave you house open? I have no beef with Sony i do not care what you opinion i am only here for cold hard Facts and the fact is as of right now i do not have any trust in sony security and nothing you say will change that. Daily…. this is more dramatized and oversensationalized, as is common for the poor media who are worried more about views and less about the actual news. http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/02/technology/security/sony-playstation-hack/ just gonna leave this here for you to read. Note this is coming from a trusted source and the person interviewed is a longtime sony user. I don’t have an XBox, but I do have a PS3 and PS4 (Mainly on PC, though) and I have to say, that PSN is one of the worst services I’ve ever used. Often unstable and all kinds of different issues with it. 280 million people say otherwise… You sure? Did you ask them? When you look at the internet and even Playstation forums, then you can see so many people, who have issues with one thing or another. (A lot of those issues being things, which shouldn’t be a problem) Were issues tangible and serious, these would no longer be active members, it is clearly better than others. Sadly that’s not true. There are so many examples of terrible services having more active users than proper services. Lol, you are telling me people are saying “oh, this thing sucks, let’s use it”. Not exactly, I hope. People put up with terrible services, it seems, when they have to, to get that small part, which they wanted. Even I put up with some terrible services, if I don’t have another choice. You haven’t lived enough yet, I guess, to notice these things, but you will. Lol…it’s psn, they have many choices, not just the user, but the developers and publishers get to choose if they use psn at all or not…. it’s not at all like living in an area where there is no other cable company so they can bilk you for standard services. And don’t try pulling the wise old man game on me kid. There is no game. If you haven’t noticed a lot of people using services, which tend to often have issues, then you either haven’t been around long enough or have been interestingly lucky to not have noticed. Usually it’s the first. Simple as that. Wtf are you talking about? Do you actually have a point? I certainly never said it, nor any service has been free of issues, I am in fact saying quite the opposite, as well as how drastically the comparative rlation of them are. Adres IP: 117.162.212.230. Data: 2015-12-09 03:20 (GMT) This is a part of a message I got from Microsoft about some accident with a try to log into my account. Im using Sony console for 1 year, and I never got anything like that. I was having X360 for few years, but now I dont want XOne. I decided to get PS4, not because PS+ is better or something, cuz Im not using it anyway. I like PS4 games more than games that are coming to XOne. Pozdro dla kumatych. I’ve never been hacked on my 360 or one but have have 2 friends get the ps info stolen and got charged lots…. Doesn’t mean it’s not a good system but you can’t just say stupid stuff about Xbox just cause you’re not a fan of it loser! Hm… way to run about name calling when your fake story didn’t hold up. Even msft brass had their xbl accounts hacked…. and stop making your psn passwords “1234” and “password”… thorough investigations are conducted by sony, who pay for losses and then some if they find they are at fault…. that has never been found though even by the FBI…. Bet you didn’t think I would snipe your little fanboy comment here posting months after the fact did ya? Get a clue kid. oh i see you just a fanboy looser console defender. Holy full retard fanboy…. like msft you came here a day late and a dollar short. Some games are free without gold as I have purchased them without a gold membership. Not all launch day DLC is evil. There’s a period of time where they actually have to make all the packaging and disks, and send them out everywhere. They all have to have the same version, which means the devs have a cut-off point to work on the main game. In that between period, when the copies are being created and distributed to various stores, they work on DLC. It keeps them employed, makes the publisher some more cash, and adds content for the gamers. It isn’t like they chop DLC chunks out of the game and ransom it back. That only happens on rare occasion. Pretty poor nigga if u aint got xbl XD. Wait, unless games are free with ads… WHO THE $#!T WOULD WANT TO DOWNLOAD “Gatorade Sports Performance Football Training Camp”. It’s literally $25. Stop being a cheap ass and just go buy some. It’s not much and they’re always having sales and free games to gold so you can’t act like they don’t treat us well either. So you are complaining that you need xbox live to get a game and not soend actual money on the gane itself the idea of the game being free is you paid 60$ to use live and you are not paying for the game itself you get multiple games depend8ng on what live you get so you are getting the games for free just not the ability to download and play them right away quit your bitching and grow up. Free on All other platforms. How many of those run at 1080p? Er, every game on my Android runs at 1080p. It is a lot easier to run 10000 polygons in 1080p than 100000 polygons in 720p. Perhaps I did not made myself clear. How many of those run at 1080p ON THE XBOX ONE? Because the last time I checked. It can’t even run Angry Birds at 1080p but the PS4 version does. Bear, dont be bitter, darkich was just being an smartass. You are right, this pos dont run any of those @ 1080p. Damn, X1 can’t play Angry Birds at 1080p?? Yeah, either that was one lazy port or.. That’s it. I will have to say its a lazy port. If not damn. meh…… EA needs to bring C&C to a downloadable client instead of the script version they offer. I’m seeing reports that some large retailers are knocking $50 off of the price of the XB1 (bundled with Sunset Overdrive IIRC). Supposed to last through at least January per info on IGN and TechCrunch. Between that and these “free” games, MS is getting serious about trying to revive market interest after their flop of a launch. I sort of wonder if Sony will be able to match the price drop because, although PS4 selling very well is making them money, it is damn near the ONLY thing making them money right now and they are in hot water as a company overall. Whatever the case, as a consumer I am glad to see increasing competition for my $$$. It’s kind of funny that despite Sony’s TV division has been bleeding money for many, many years, they’re still holding onto that one while letting others go. Despite all their attempts, their smartphone and TV divisions are still regularly posting losses as usual. It’s kind of surprising to see Sony struggle as much as they have, especially with their TVs. Only ten years ago were they the de facto brand for your TV needs. They were researching cutting edge technologies like S-LCD which was sold off to HTC and OLED which they’re no longer pursuing it seems… Or maybe they are, but their Vita OLED screens are nowhere near the quality of Samsung’s (I have one… screen burns etc. galore) 10 years ago some key things happened, companies like samsung began hitting the market hard with reverse engineered sony tech, for a fraction of the cost and were able to price it far lower. Sony’s real issue is failing to lock down their R&D on displays as much as they should have and gone after blatant copies, or having sold off/shared said tech after piling cash into its R&D. Hahaha they all stole their tech from Sony did they? You’re sounding desperate now….. I am speaking of displays only.. ( but really, most if what all the consoles are doing is iwed to sony anyways..) wash away the silly trademarks and branded terms, look inly at the tech itself and the timing of each, and it becomes clear.. if I want the most bang for my buck on a mid range display=samsung. If I want the best image possible regardless of price=sony. Thag is simply the way things are, and people do shop by those filters. Also, why would I be despirate?? Nvm, just realized you are one of them fanboys, an xbot to be specific, who will interject into anything pro sony, nintendo, or pc that doesn’t give overly gratuitous praise to the console brand you emotionally attached your lack of self-esteem to. I’m a fan of watching morons take the time to bash each other over stupid shit but he’s right. actually, many retailers have been doing -$50 to -$100 no xb1 and bundles since as early as late Jan 2013… Me being one of them (along with a free 8th gen console of choice with 4k Display purchase). Sony won’t drop prices, they quite famously bragged about how they can take the p*#s out of consumers because they are Sony (can’t afford a playstation get another job….. Remember that??) I’m not going to say the xb1 is better than the ps4 it was just my preference of Xbox that made me purchase it I honestly don’t care about differences between the two, I care about the quality I receive and couldn’t give a monkeys whether or not psn works or ps4 has 2 more polygons and can play angry birds in 1080p as that would be the equivalent of polishing a gaming turd (great graphics do not a good game make my old son) be lucky go outside take a breath and smile, you are alive and the real world is in HD x. Giving away 10 Xbox Live Gold codes all this week on my blog. This is for one FREE month of xbox live. Don’t miss out. We need an article detailing and explaining about the Cancellation of F.E.A.R. Online, how they are shutting the servers down for good sometime in the middle of May 2015. The one reason I read is many people were in game hacking and the moderators can’t keep up with the patching. Too bad, the game is actually good. i really dont care about the best, where is the list for all the free games. No kidding. I don’t understand why Microsoft makes it so hard to find games on the XB1. The on-system store has no sort or filter options and the web store isn’t much better. Warframe is a complete waste of time. You can’t effectively solo it and you will never find players in the lobbies to get a co-op game going. Just avoid it. I favoured the x-box over the ps2 as preferred the games such as championship manager and KOTOR 1 & 2, Never really bothered with the 360 after I bought my ps3 apart from for Mass Effect 1 and 2. I got the ps4 before the X-box one but disappointed with it and ordered X-box one a day after. I have only really played Watchdogs, Thief and Arkam night on ps4 but played loads on x-box one have no real preference other online experience but prefer the PSN store. Console wise the X-box one fits my needs most. I have gold for the x box one and EA hub, but don’t have a PSN subscription although have considered it for free games alone. then go get gold cheap ass bitch I’m more than happy with my yearly subscription of gold. I really don’t care which company is better. It is a matter of opinion not fact. Both companies make good consoles. I personally enjoy the Xbox as most of my friends do as well and it has good quality. Also in the time that Microsoft has made 3 consoles (Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One) to compete with Sony, Sony has made 4 consoles (PlayStation, PS2, PS3, and PS4) and 2 handheld consoles (PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita) but Microsoft is still their main company to “Battle” with. I also have a few friends who have recently switched from the PlayStation 4 to the Xbox One. So, while everyone is busy debating about which is better, you can try them out for yourself and just take in the vast and glory of both of the consoles because they are both unique in their very own way. I have also recently bought a new Xbox One console (Forza Motorsport 6 Edition) and I have to say that it is one of my favorite consoles that I have ever used. It also sounds like a racecar as the special power up and power down sounds so that is a really cool feature as well :) These are Freemium games not Free. Don’t forget the new Fable Legends is F2P! Please don’t call world of tanks historical :) It may be free to download and maybe free to play, but not totally free. Microtransactions galore or grind fest. Besides, a lot of these free games are already on PC which is already a superior console err i mean platform (excluding some of the crappy console ports). Now if only Evolved was free I’d actually play that. Why do I say that? Because a lot of the aesthetic skins in the game are locked behind a paywall. $60 for the game + $15 for content that you ALREADY paid for? That’s pushing it. World of Tanks, I don’t think I ever hated a game so bad and yet I kind of like the feel of the tanks. But the terrible mm and wallet warriors, along with the some bias for Russian tanks. before i got gold again i downloaded tomb raider definitive edition and it required gold to play so they are not free at all so you grant need to get ya facts right am with you on that one mirimon. Great news that DCUO is coming to Xbox. Ive been telling my Xbox friends abou this game for years. Plus it gives me a chance to grab the names i never managed to get on PS3 and 4. dont be stupid when something is free it cost 0. there for it is free, all games with gold are free the games in this list are free. if game shops took all their games and said come take what you want they are frrreeee, you can not turn around a say oh none of its free cos I had to pay bus fare or to play these I have to buy an xbox. your an idiot free is free. now what does cost is xbox live gold and for that price you are paying for eeso Microsoft feature inding most online features. Slideshow doesn’t show up in Chrome. Same problem here; got our dev team working on it. Sorry for the inconvenience! (It’s intermittent, too; a refresh sometimes brings it up for me, which is even weirder.) Okay, this problem should disappear over the next few minutes. Thanks for reporting. Store online. xbox one digital games http://www.gameskey.net order now! 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We have updated our PRIVACY POLICY and encourage you to read it by clicking here. The Complete Xbox Games with Gold List and Details. Updated for February 2018. Games with Gold is Microsoft’s attempt to counter Sony’s PlayStation Plus program, which gives members free games each month. With the program, Xbox Live Gold members are eligible to receive multiple free games on the Xbox Store every month. Due to reader interest, we’ll catalog and archive the Games with Gold program here. How to Get Free Games. Xbox Live Gold members must log-in to their consoles or the Xbox Marketplace and “purchase” each free game at some point during its promotional period. Games with Gold is exclusive to the Xbox 360 and, as of June 2014, the Xbox One. Generally, four games are released each month for approximately two weeks, two for each console. Two games are available during the first half of each month, and another two games during the second half. Note, however, that Microsoft occasionally changes this release schedule by, for example, releasing a single Xbox One game for an entire month, or by releasing more than two games per month for each platform. You don’t need to actually download a game during its period of availability to get it, but you must at least complete the free “purchase” online or via your console in order to qualify. Once a game’s promotional period has expired, it will cease to be free and return to its former price, but if you’ve “purchased” the game for free prior to this, it will be yours indefinitely. Games with Gold List To Date. Below is a table listing all Games with Gold titles to date. Each title links directly to the Xbox.com marketplace, where Xbox Live members can log in and “purchase” the games during their free period without having to log into their consoles. “GWG Release” is the first day the game is free with the Games with Gold promotion, “Orig. Release” is the date the game was first released for Xbox, and “Reg. Price” is a game’s current price on the Xbox Store before the free promotion (not the game’s original retail price). The Complete Saga. Twisted Dreams - Director's Cut. Release dates in the above list reference North America, and prices are in U.S. dollars. Check back each month to see which new games are eligible for Games with Gold. Want news and tips from TekRevue delivered directly to your inbox? Sign up for the TekRevue Weekly Digest using the box below. Get tips, reviews, news, and giveaways reserved exclusively for subscribers. Sign Up for the TekRevue Weekly Digest. Read more in Games on TekRevue. Here’s What Xbox 360 Games Look Like on the Xbox One. How to Soon Play Xbox 360 Games on Xbox One. Xbox Live Games with Gold May 2015. Civ Revolution for free is awesome! Highly recommend that game if you haven’t played it. I was shocked to realize that it first came out in 2008! Where has the time gone? 🙂 Bradley Thomas Kincaid-Moore says. This list is wrong. the dates for some of the games are wrong. like Crimson Dragon, Quacamelle, Assassins creed, Hitman, alot of these still arent free yet even tho the list says they are. The list is correct; it is an historical list of all the games that have been part of the Games with Gold program. Most of the games you mentioned, except for Crimson Dragon, already came and went as part of the free program, as is clearly illustrated by the “GWG Release” column. Only the games at the top of the list are current (or forthcoming this month). crimson dragon was free for 1 month on xbox one. when will companys learn to make better games and not thrown together garbage to make a quick buck out of my 20 years straight of gaming ive played every game you can think of 100’s and 100’s of games and i can say this only 10% of the game are really good and are enjoyable to play while the other 90% of games are trash. Live should be predominantly for online multiplayer if you get it for free games then your wasting money. Marcelo Linhares says. It is still “crap for gold” to me. I havent seen any worth game so far on my xbox one. thats because they dont want to sell expensive games yet but now they will start to hand out $60 games. Dayel Van Damme says. How about tomb raider definitive edition, MGSV, Assassins creed… Pretty good games if you didn’t have them already. I didn’t see Fable 3 for free with gold. I have been waiting. I called them and they said fable 3 might come out next, it never did. I know for a fact it didn’t come out for free with gold. I would have saw it. it was free as one of the first games ever for gwg. Source: Own it from GWG. it was free, it was the first ever free game and it was out for about 20 days as it started on a different date then the rest also not to many people knew it was free. 1st of all Assassains creed was 1st. People tell me that they got fable 3 with the free with gold. Others agree with me, they didn’t see Fable 3 either. Fable III was indeed free, and it was the first game Microsoft gave away free to Xbox Live members. It could be argued that Fable III isn’t technically part of “Games with Gold” because the regular free game updates didn’t begin until July, but it was offered as a free download on Xbox 360 to all Xbox Live members from June 10th to June 30th, 2013. I know what I am talking about, I didn’t see it for free 1st, Asassains Creed 2 was the first. I have been part of it for day 1. Why didn’t I see it then? Chad Lehew says. Fable 3 was first free download. I have no idea why you didn’t see it. It was the first. My Xbox 360 has a copy of the game on it right now thanks to the free promo. Evan Thornton says. My guess would be that you didn’t look… Andrew Rosenberger says. Just for you Patriot… no it was fable 3. Manjot Mohan says. games with gold is terrible. Yeah maybe for Xbox one but they’ve been giving good games for 360 lol. Evan Thornton says. Really, the Xbox One hasn’t had the library necessary to give out full version games like the 360 has. They’ve now given out Metal Gear Solid V, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, and you’ll get Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition the second half of this month. Just give it a bit and you’ll start seeing better games. So far, I’ve owned all the games with gold. John Vandenberg says. Yea I’ve owned all of the games offered so far. I would like to see something where those who buy games on release be offered something that would benefit them as well. Thanks for the article, Jim. Just want to inform all folks who live outside US that Xbox 360 is a great media Player. If you want to access Netflix and other streaming stations on your Xbox360 / Xbox One, you can use UnoTelly as I do to get around the geo block. silas soares says. João Victor de Mello says. Last Light is missing, from last week… I see it says they are only for Xbox 360. When are they going to do free games for the Xbox one? It puzzles me greatly this. Please find out when they are doing games for Xbox one then I can look forward to you updating your out of date rubbish. Apologies. The chart listing the games is managed and updated separately from the body text on the page, which was originally published in late 2013. The body text has been updated to reflect the current release practice. Mike Warner says. So this month they are giing out dirt showdown. I bought hits game afew years back, used. Didn’t come with the online code so I never got to try it out. What’s the deal with it now? Do you get the code when you donwload it or do you still have to pay extra. I think it was like a season pass or sojething. Joe swanson says. Can someone please let me know of any free games that arent part of the games with gold or in the free section with world of tanks; for instance, I just discovered roblox and project spark. so if you know of anymore please pass it on ill be watching this page… i spent alot of time clicking through cheap looking games but you have to click each individually to see their price as far as i know. Darren Schwartz says. Peggle GWG release date is wrong. Says 2015, should be 2016. Thanks for catching that typo. We’ll fix it right away. I’ve profited 104 thousand dollars last year by freelancing on-line and I did it by w­orking part-time for few hrs daily. I was following a business opportunity I came across online and I am so excited that i earned such great money. It’s beginner-friendly and I’m just so blessed that I found out about this. Here is what i do… STATICTAB.COM/dk8k8gt. I got paid 104000 dollars in last 12 months by freelancing from home a­­n­­d I did that by w­o­r­k­i­n­g in my own time f­­o­­r few hours each day. I used an earning opportunity I was introduced by this web-site i found on-line and I am excited that i made such great money. It’s really newbie friendly a­n­d I am just so thankful that I found out about it. This is what i did… STATICTAB.COM/x4biwaa. I profited $104000 previous year by freelancing online a­n­d I did that by work­ing part time f­­o­­r few h a day. I was following a business opportunity I found online and I am happy that i made such great money. It’s really newbie-friendly a­­n­­d I am just so happy that I found out about it. Here’s what I do… STATICTAB.COM/r2tyhgi. I was paid 104000 bucks last year by freelancing from home a­­n­­d I manage to earn that much by work­ing in my own time f­­o­­r several hrs /day. I used work opportunity I was introduced by this website i found on-line and I am excited that I was able to earn so much extra income. It’s really newbie-friendly a­n­d I’m just so thankful that i found it. Check out what I do… STATICTAB.COM/h8vxywm. slash dash is also free in singapore this month. For GOLD users only? Still free? Where to find a comprehensive list of free games for ALL REGIONS? There’re always more than 4 games per month available – you just need to know the region. Usually it’s Japan and Germany. kaiZen weisZ says. Whoa there. OK now THIS is important. Japan and Germany have different GWG releases? Hmmmmm. So twice a month we should change our regions to those and check? Thank you for a brilliant idea! It’s not a new idea, nor is it mine, but you’re welcome. What will also make you happy is that MS actually not opposed to this, officially. WWE 2K16 has never been apart of “Games With Gold” – Maybe for a small discount, but never part of the 2 free games a month. Look at the date. WWE 2K16 will be free starting August 16th. I have profited 104000 bucks in 2016 by doing an online job a­n­d I was able to do it by wo­rking part-time for several hrs every day. I followed an earning opportunity I found online and I am amazed that i made so much extra income. It’s so beginner friendly and I’m just so thankful that i learned about it. This is what i do… STATICTAB.COM/x4biwaa. I’ve got an XBOX joystick – USB. Stewart Damien says. Wow I can’t believe how many great 360 games I missed over time. Xbox One’s selection sucks in comparison. Sunset Overdrive been the best free game to date on Xbox One. I am tired of the kidy games on the xbox gold . I like one teen or one muture game once every month please because I have not downloaded many gold games . Nathan D Homan says. If I get an xbox 360 game on my xbox one and then my Gold Subscription runs out a couple weeks later (and I don’t renew) will I lose access to the xbox 360 game? Any Xbox 360 games obtained from Games with Gold remain active and are playable forever, even if you cancel your Gold Subscription. However, Xbox One games obtained from Games with Gold will stop working once your subscription ends. The games will still be tied to your account and will become available again if you resubscribe in the future, but you can’t play them during any periods where you don’t have an active Gold subscription. Just fyi, found out the hard way that even if you “purchased” certain xbox one games through the gwg program you can’t actually play them in the future without having a current gold subscription. At least that’s what Microsoft has told me. Bunch of bs if you ask me. Will you ever post an up-to-date comprehensive list for PlayStation Plus members? I’m comparison shopping between the XO and PS4 and I can’t find enough definitive info to make a decision that I’m comfortable with. I have a strange feeling vscode sent me here. Joe Drewniak says. Downloaded Dirt 3 with gwg aND then due to storage space I had to delete it. Now I have room again and it is no longer available on Xbox marketplace for 360. Alexandre Cossette says. I also had storage problems so I could never download all the free games, so what you do is start the download then stop it/cancel it. Then you go into Account/Download History and you have everything you have ever downloaded, so you just select the game and re-download it. Sapphire Opinion says. You can also plug an external hard drive into the 360. Since last year, they lifted the 10 mb allocated space. Now you can use the entire drive for xbox games. I use a 1 TB drive and it works great. Sapphire Opinion says. You can also plug an external hard drive into the 360. Since last year, they lifted the 10 mb allocated space. Now you can use the entire drive for xbox games. I use a 1 TB drive and it works great!! I think that slas dash is the best. I’ll give star wars a go. Thanks! 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