STP: iOS is one of the most vibrant video game platforms out there, with a crazy number of excellent games releasing every month. In June we played a lot of great titles, including an elegantly simple two-player board game (OLO Game) and an adventure title that addresses horror and darkness in a way we rarely see (Yesterday). But it was a card battling game that earned our Game of the Month award for June. Magic 2013 is all we'd hoped it would be and more.
This months first Game with Gold, Magic 2013, has just gone free on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Boooooooooooo!!! Free is free but this is cr@p. Hoping for a proper game on the 16th.
Would be a good joke though. This game is more than a year old and not even that good. I bought it because I was playing the TCG a couple years ago but I couldn't continue playing after realizing that you can't even build the deck you want to build ...everything's preset.
I was so disappointed to see this earlier today, why not give us Forza 4, hell even Forza 3! That would allow more people to experience the series before Forza 5 launches in November.
I am not trolling! Hand on heart! this is exactly what SONY did by giving AC3 on PS Plus this month in Europe so as to gear up people for Black Flag!
Ye xbox crowd deserve a lot more after years of pumpimg money into Gold/Marketplace
They did not give it for free its a RENTAL
WHY DO SONY FANATICS IGNORE THIS FACT
But when ms gives afree to play then you are all "its not free to play becasue you pay for xlive"
You guys and your double standards are unvelibable
Ms gives a game for free and you find a eay to hate on it wow
You guys are really true gamers
@ Dread
Would you be arsed playing magic 2013 in 5 years time or play AC3 now complete it then move on. I never replay games i complete and neither do most!
And why xbox fans think ps plus fans keep thinking that they believe they own these games is beyond me! I know its a subscription and I dont care.
I have a gold account and i am not renewing it!
See giving Forza 4 would make a lot of sense. Forza 5 is coming out in November and Microsoft owns the product. Taking that on the end would be beneficial as it gets people excited for Forza 5. I get the impression Microsoft is 100% on the Xbox One launch without thinking about the, relatively, cheap ways to get people who own an Xbox 360 to transfer over. Forza 4 roughly sold about 4 million. There will be a lot of people who do not own Forza 4. It might get them excited for Forza 5
That's what MS did with Dead Rising 2, I've been playing it all week and can't wait to pick up DR 3 at launch. I loved Forza 3 (and Horizon, can't wait to see a next gen sequel!) but never got round to picking up 4 although from what I hear it's a fantastic game. Just seems like a bit of a missed opportunity really, especially when Forza 5 builds on many of the features from 4 (Autovista mode, Top Gear integration and so on).
Major Nelson:
The next set of free games for Xbox Live Members in September will be Magic 2013 and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas.
Starting Sunday (September 1st) Magic 2013 (Normally US $9.99) will be free for Xbox LIVE Gold members through September 15th .
Yeah..... 2006. I was hoping for something a little more recent for this months free game :/
Yeah, looks like MS is giving games that are 7 years old now.
Can't complain to much it is free.
EDIT: @Below When Deadrising, Crackdown, and Fable was free I saw a lot of people playing those old titles. It was as if the game just got released or something. That's how many people that I saw were downloading it and playing it.
Just comes to show if its free, and if its a good title, people will play no matter the age.
agreed. Games for Gold is a nice scheme to have but it just doesn't come close to what the PlayStation guys get.
Can i say something, your talking abous a service which lets u rent games (i say this cause once subscription is done u cant play it), to a service which lets u keep games, keeping is much more expensive then renting, hence the reason why i think xbox cant really give u recent games, because if they start handing out Battlefield 3 and AC3 for free to keep? That is a loss. If PS had the chance to let you keep their free games lineup it wouldn't be recent games on their either
Do you keep every game you purchase? I have sold nearly every game I've ever owned. This argument about renting is ridiculous and trying to deflect the fact that MS is giving away games that you could get change back from a fiver.
It would find it more useful to rent recent games that I can play and enjoy while I have my service, then get Old games for free which are so old I have no interest in playing them ever again nor any of my friends.
Yes it's free, but you still need to have a gold account to download it in the first place, and if I am going to be paying for Gold to download something for free that I will never play anyway... I may as well pay for PSN and get games I actually want to play !
Just saying...
For a guy like me who rarely replays games, PS+ is a fantastic value because after I play it and I can delete it and move on. I also got the walking dead for 5 dollars so you can also get great savings on games you do buy.
In my opinion, I would rather rent games like X:COM Enemy Unknown, Infamous 2, LBP2, Hitman: Absolution, etc. than own free games like Magic and Rainbow Six (though it is awesome for it's time). Crackdown was the best game in the games for gold promotion so far but it's not exactly in the class of Uncharted 3 quite frankly. If they threw Gears 3 in there or Halo: Reach, then that's something that's at least a little more recent and would be better.
To each their own of course, I'm just giving my two cents.
Kid, the fact that both services will be mandatory soon renders your keep vs rent argument moot at best.
If you have to subscribe to live and ps+ then all games are yours forever.
Smfh
The only difference is that ps+ offers much better games.
#dealwithit
@mega31
And when you don't pay your electric bill, you can't play your Xbox anymore. You are right.. Playstation Plus is a service. It's not required. You don't need it. But it's a GREAT VALUE. A value you WANT to have. A value you WILL pay to have, because it's just that dayam GOOD.
So, you want to call the free games a "rental". Whatever. My take on that is either you are trying to devalue the service for others in support of the competition or you simply don't understand a good value when it slaps you in the face. Point is, I recognize the VALUE of Playstation Plus and have ZERO intention of ever letting my subscription expire. So, while the games might not be "keepers", I'll have them for years to come, regardless, along with many, MANY more.
Well by that logic, aren't you essentially renting all MP games on the Xbox 360?
One of the main reasons im going back to sony, Though i plan on getting an xbox one later on just not now.
This is pretty darn pathetic man. You gotta admit, take away Sony from this equation and you still come up wanting. This is just horrible.
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