When it was announced back at E3, the free-games-for-paid-subscriber s deal called Games With Gold was supposed to last only until the Xbox One's launch. Well, now it is officially continued as an "ongoing benefit." That's not what caught my eye about the announcement, however.
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.
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.
Maybe they don't want old games. Xbox live needs to give out more recent games i must say.
"Who the hell doesn't approve of free games?"
It's not that they don't approve of free games. It's that they've given their money to MS all these years and in return they are given ridiculously old and cheap games. They feel shortchanged. Can't say I blame them.
Maybe that 3% are Sony fanboys... free is free.
That 3% are probably the people still using the 20gb HDD or the 4gb Kinect 360.
Dont care about the 3% ...I am very pleased to see the program will continue. Competition is a great thing and clearly Sony has pushed MS in a good direction with the free games. Hopefully the program continues to evolve and on Xbox One you have to assume the games will be much newer given no BC.