OXM - "Microsoft recently revealed plans to extend its “Games with Gold” promotion (the free-games-with-paid-subscript ion program) into 2014. But given what we've seen so far, I don't think I would have mourned the program's conclusion."
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
It's been 20 years to the day since Xbox Live brought online play to consoles.
I remember when Live turned five and they had special edition controllers made and everything. Kind of wished they would do that again for the 20th.
Happy Birthday. OG XBL (and later 360 XBL) really revolutionized online gaming on console.
Never understood the obsession with live...but I was gaming online on PC so not sure too much of what live did that the PlayStation didn't.
I had a PS2 and it's online experience was fine but it didn't have the same level of polish voice chat never worked for me but I was trying to play from Australia where not many people played PS2 online to the point where many devs simply dropped the online mode from the pal version.
That's not all PS2 games mind you there were plenty that worked perfectly but it was more on the dev and not the platform
During that era I also played a fairly large amount on online PC games and they were undoubtedly better than both systems. PS2 from functionality and Xbox because it was free
Playing my friends original Xbox it was a really polished experience it felt robust yet simple things just worked there was zero config.
Yeah but the time ps3 came the experience was the same on both based on what I played...not too much online though to be honest. But I do think that the xbox did help bring online into the console space a lot. As well as PC games to consoles.
Today would of been the perfect day to drop halo 2 the original bc version free on gwg.... If only
Xbox Live 1.0, the first instance of online servers for the original Xbox, is set to return via Insignia, a free third-party service that's currently compatible with 20 titles, such as Call of Duty: Finest Hour and Counter-Strike.
Lobbies, Matchmaking, Leaderboards, Voice Chat, Content Downloads, Friends Lists, all set to return
Halo 2 set to come later as it requires additional services to run online.
Beta sign ups available now with beta launch of 11/15/22. Certain features of XBL will roll out over the future.
People crying because they are getting free games. Ahh the internet...never lets me down.
Ive gotten around 8-10 games that I didn't have with Games for Gold for free. Im not complaining at all. That would have easily paid for a year of Live Gold.
I never subscribed to Gold when I had a 360, but the Games for Gold is a sweetening of the deal. Let's just say that each company has something they are better at than the other... perhaps the next-gen will see a little closer competition.
So it's okay for Sony to slowly build PSN up to xbox live level. Give them time, they said. But Microsoft isn't afforded the same luxury?
I have free games on my HDD. That I can keep forever. I'm not complaining.
Microsoft can do no right. They turned from their "bad" policies, included a headset, have dedicated servers for every Xbox One game, secured Titanfall and extended the free games program forever. People just hate Microsoft and Xbox just because and will find anything to laugh at them about. Pretty said. We are living a dark age of gaming.
Wait, it has been extended?? When?? Why was I not informed?