An alien invasion, a red cubic hero, and a renegade goat make up the players in Microsoft’s odd, marginally satisfying freebies for Gold members in the month of June. Each console seems to have a little bit of...

Microsoft kept things small and relatively indie with the Games With Gold offerings for the month of May. From an unassuming RPG set during Halloween to a fast-paced defense simulator and a longstanding casual puzzler, they’ve gathered...

Microsoft has announced next month’s slate of free offerings for Xbox Live Gold members. The four-pack happens to become more interesting as one reads the game descriptions, save for the one blockbuster title on the tail-end that, unfortunately, has...

All but one of the four free Xbox Games with Gold January 2016 offerings are almost overtly designed to get you to buy more stuff down the line. The good news is, because of that fact, they...

For the second month in a row since activating the free backwards compatibility feature for the Xbox One, Microsoft has gone out of its way to create the most boring list of free Xbox 360 games which...

Though the actual game offering is underwhelming, the freebie Games with Gold November lineup for Xbox consoles is owning up to a promise made a few months ago by the company: all four titles will be playable...

Major Nelson claims that the Games with Gold October 2015 free-for-all contains four games. I have decided that he is wrong, that he has clearly lost his mind. There are just three games, Major. Three. And this is...

Microsoft is playing a little catch up with Sony in August. Its Games with Gold promotion, originally conceived as a match for Sony’s Playstation Plus free games, maintains a struggling position in the final month of summer with...

Behold, the tyranny of Pool Nation FX has ended. Microsoft is offering four games across its two consoles free to Xbox Live Gold members in July, and none of those games are repeats from the previous month, nor do...

Microsoft’s free Games with Gold June lineup is, frankly, anemic at best. It doesn’t quite match up to the enormously crowd-pleasing/promotional goldmine that is Playstation Plus free games next month. Oh well. This is where we say...

April gave us quite the bundle of free goodies from the Games with Gold freebie promotion, scaling considerably from the tidbit titles to the massive, AAA stuff. Reality settles back in for Games with Gold May 2015,...

Microsoft is doubling the number of free games as part of the Xbox Live Games with Gold promotion next month (April 2015), with two going free on Xbox One and four dispersed about for the Xbox 360. According...