Make Room for Three Great Games in May - Games with Gold

Xbox Wire:
It’s not quite time for summer vacation, but May is a time for sunny days, warm weather, and plenty of great gaming courtesy of Games with Gold. In May, Games with Gold is adding CastleStorm: Definitive Edition, an awesome tower-defense brawler mashup title, for free, as well as extending Pool Nation in Games with Gold for another month on Xbox One. On the Xbox 360 front, two great games are coming free in May: Mafia II, a third-person action game that immerses players in the dark and unforgiving world of the Mafia in the 1940’s and 50’s, and F1 2013, a realistic, open-wheel racing sim. As usual, all games are available only for a limited time*, as part of the ongoing Games with Gold program.

[creeping judas]

Wow, looks like both the PS+ free games and Games With Gold are striking out in May!!

[AngelicIceDiamond]

Considering Witcher 3 releases next month. Can't have anything to crazy for May.

[KiwiViper85]

I think everyone is looking forward to Witcher 3... It's gonna sell so well.

CDPR deserves the riches

[XanderZane]

Yup.. I'm not mad at Microsoft or Sony for these weak offerings, because I still have a lot of the other free games they've given me over the past 4 months to play. Like you said, The Witcher 3 is coming in May, so I definitely won't have time to play any of these freebies next month.

[lelo2play]

Yep, both PS+ and Games with Gold are subpar.

Sony doesn't need to improve PS+ subpar offerings, since the PS4 is selling quite well... but Microsoft could really sell a few more X1's if their Gold offerings were better. It's Microsoft that needs to improve, not Sony.
Like it or not, the company that "offers" better games with their paid online service, could sway a few gamers in purchasing their console instead of the competition. It happened last gen with PS+ "offerings" for the PS3.

Microsoft doesn't learn... they simply don't know how to compete.
Supposing the other way around, if the X1 had better sales then the PS4, you could bet your a** that Sony would be offering AAA PS4 games with PS+ to improve sales.

[Dirtnapstor]

PS+ offerings subpar? Whatever....
Not sure about the all the PS offerings, but I know Guacamelee and The Unfinished Swan are great games.
To say Sony is not putting in any effort because the PS4 is selling so well is ignorant.
I'm in Playstation's corner, but getting AC Blag Flag for free was pretty sweet!

[DanZeeMan]

My spider senses are telling me you possibly own a PS4

[Dudebro90]

All good games.

[Ricegum]

Haha. Oh man.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Happy to see CastleStorm on the list. Its a game I was interested in but was probably not willing to buy.

[ThinkThink]

CastleStorm was great. Looking forward to playing it again with the DLC on the X1.

[MTROB]

I thought it was going to be DR3 for XB1, nevermind!

[xDHAV0K24x]

DR3 was good. sure u can get it for cheap nowadays

[WCxAlchemist]

MS we gotta do better than that!

how bout Lords of the fallen to usher in ur new partnership with deck 13

[ERFO]

At the very least, put it on sale.

[gangsta_red]

Yea, very lackluster next month. There are way better titles out there old or not that could be offered to Xbox users.

[xDHAV0K24x]

Neverwinter and Happy Wars is also free to play

[ERFO]

Thank the gaming gods!!! Another month of 9 ball! I thought I'd have to google "free online pool games" and choose from 80+ sites.

Where's Lifeless Planet Phil?

You scratched on the 8 ball this month...

[Svinya]

It's a great pool game and on a different level than any free online games...

[RiPPn]

Looking forward to CastleStorm: Definitive Edition, the 360 titles are pretty meh though.

[barb_wire]

Never played either of those 360 games, so yay for me in May.

[Mutant-Spud]

There's nothing wrong with Mafia II, it's a decent enough game and the F! series are always good value if you're into racing.

[GoPanthers999]

I'll give Castlestorm a try, otherwise I will spare my hardrive space for better games.

[WizzroSupreme]

I'm totally downloading Mafia II.

[TheOnlyMastrx]

Is Xbox One ever going to get a game that isn't Indie/Arcade? Some have been good, but most I haven't played more than once.

[Svinya]

Um, yes. Rayman Legends was free a nonth ago..

[Kalebninja]

a single arcade game? really?

[NonShinyGoose]

This is usually the case on Xbox One.

[Arty84]

F1...

[PhoenixUp]

Such a let down from last month. I thought Microsoft was going to be offering 6 games from now on

[NonShinyGoose]

Hopefully Pool Nation FX will be patched soon. 12 of the achievements are borked.

[RiseofScorpio]

Swap F1 for NFS or Forza and this would've been a great month MS.

[magiciandude]

April's GwG was great. This month's, not so much. MS could've done better with their choices, no doubt about that. Same for Sony. Mafia II is older than the hills and everyone that wanted to play it has already played it.

[Haseo106]

Mafia 2? It was released in 2011. This month, PS+ is way better! Glad I bought the PS4 instead of XBONE.

[StrayaKNT]

You bought it for the free monthly games? Wow

[Death]

It's odd that you bought a PS4 for indie games. I would rather you bought a PS4 for Bloodbourne, The Last of Us and of course the upcoming Uncharted. Each to their own I guess.

[Haseo106]

I own all those games. But indie games are amazing too. To me, there is no such thing as indie games and AAA games. Games are just games. If a game is amazing, it is amazing. Looks at Bastion, Transistor, Child of Light, and many other indie games. They are a lot better than so many AAA games out there.

So I bought a PS4 for games! :)

[Skate-AK]

Mafia 2 is a cool. I bought the ultimate edtion they have on PSN with all the DLC a couple years ago. Ended up getting the platinum trophy for it. Game is a lot of fun. The 360 version is the better version too.

[ghaleon1980]

I don't think that the XOne has only had "indie junk" for free games as some of you suggest...

Child of Light, which was one of April's free games for XOne, was an Ubisoft game and a fantastic one at that.

Same goes for Rayman Legends, which was released the month before that and available for 2 months straight.

[bananaboats]

Gladly take them all. but as soon as The Witcher 3 hits I'm making soon room on my HD.

[iliimaster]

ps plus with ps3 can only do so much i have so many damn games from them good ones too so i can see why it would slow down,

[22CobraKing]

Good month for the 360 but not that much for the Xbox one

[KryptoniteTail]

PS+ was already looking alright. Compare it to this stinking turd and I feel privileged.

[Death]

You should. PS+ is a game subscription service. Live is a match making service.

[poor_cus_of_games]

What a mess.

[BillytheBarbarian]

It's my renewal month and it was going to depend on what games were going to be free this month. I don't play enough online to pay. I'm done. Slowly I'm cutting ties from gaming. It's not the hobby I used to love. It's just become a giant money pit full of rental services and dlc that should be available with the initial purchase. I saw it coming when Madden 360 came in 2005.