The freedom of roaming around vast spaces earned popularity a few console generations ago with fine-tuned releases of the Elder Scrolls and Grand Theft Auto videogames, but that desire to explore and simply wander has grown in popularity...

On one side of Microsoft’s free downloads for Games With Gold subscribers in May, we’ve got two recognizable names – for wildly different reasons – who have had their gameplay styles massively updated for the current era...

There are quite a few big-name offerings made available this month for Xbox’s Games With Gold, but, frankly, they’re mostly the kinds of titles that subscribers have likely already powered through … perhaps even in remastered versions...

Sort of like one of the bigger titles they’re offering this month, Microsoft has a team of three trigger-happy shooters squaring off against one drastically different, somewhat menacing type of game for March’s Games With Gold.  Two...

Honestly, this is a month where the games of last-gen are allowed to shine. Whether that’s a testament to the quality of the legacy games or the shrug-worthy nature of the current-gen choices shall remain up to the...

The folks at Microsoft are taking it easy with January’s Games With Gold, an eclectic yet subdued cluster of spinoffs, add-ons, and sequels. While folks will be tackling their holiday video-game gifts, Xbox subscribers will have the...

For the month of December, Microsoft hopes to give players a lot to do with the Games With Gold offerings on the Xbox by dishing out two different kinds of open-world games for them to ransack. Both are...

There’s nothing ordinary about the characters starring in each of November’s Games With Gold from Xbox. From music-themed knights and ghostly detectives to wannabe pirates and cyborg super-soldiers, they’re a unique bunch of heroes that showcase how...

For the month of October, Microsoft wants to guide its players through elevated-reality simulations with Xbox’s Games With Gold. From baseball games and off-road racing to prison breaks and post-apocalyptic survival, each one offers a clear view on...

Sometimes, updating the trappings of a videogame genre results in innovation for a new generation.  Other times, it leads to a nostalgic response, reminding players of what they’ve dug about the times when a specific genre has really...

There isn’t much rhyme or reason behind the games being offered by Microsoft to Games With Gold subscribers over the month of August.  One could say that the freebies available on the Xbox One could both be classified as “beat-’em-up”...

Microsoft runs the gamut of age with the free games they’ve made available in July for their Gold subscribers. The pair of 360 offerings dates back almost ten years, including a movie tie-in and the sequel to...