{"id":19051,"date":"2015-04-29T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=19051"},"modified":"2015-06-22T14:47:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:47:50","slug":"microsoft-scales-back-games-gold-may-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/microsoft-scales-back-games-gold-may-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Scales Back with Games with Gold May Offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/games-gold-free-xbox-games-april-2015\/\">April<\/a> 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, though, with only three newly free games across both consoles and one holdover from this month, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/2015\/04\/games-make-room-for-mays-games-with-gold\">Xbox Wire<\/a>. Here they are, for better or worse:<\/p>\n<h2>Xbox One<\/h2>\n<p>As always, both titles will be free for the duration of Games with Gold May.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Castlestorm: Definitive Edition<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The tower defense genre bloomed ever so loudly in the app stores, but lately such titles have been scarce on consoles. That&#8217;s just about the best reason why\u00a0<em>Castlestorm\u00a0<\/em>matters, delivering the kind of immediately addictive, but ultimately shallow, gameplay so intuitive to the genre. It&#8217;s bombastic fun, and definitely worthy as a free download.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z5qvlYT-QJo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Poolnation FX<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the holdover. It&#8217;s a very fancy pool simulator, trick shots and online play included. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/games-gold-free-xbox-games-april-2015\/\">last month&#8217;s article<\/a> for more details. Or, you know, just go download it. This thing might just be free forever.<\/p>\n<h2>Xbox 360<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Mafia II<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>(free from May 1- 15)<\/p>\n<p>This is your low-rent\u00a0<em>GTA\u00a0<\/em>clone of the past generation, taking players to the\u00a0<em>Godfather\u00a0<\/em>crime era and letting them loose in a narrative-driven open-world. There&#8217;s nothing particularly special about this game, but it does what it does well enough to keep fans of the genre entertained in the run-time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LjRuTsKMw8o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>F1 2013<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>(free from May 16-31)<\/p>\n<p>The simulation masters at Codemasters deliver an acceptable F1 experience with\u00a0<em>F1 2013<\/em>, neither bending the very fabric of our simulation expectations nor faltering in the delivery of a satisfying challenge. As such, this one should hit the radar of car and race enthusiasts. At the very least, it&#8217;s a quality sim title that isn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>Forza\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>Gran Turismo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/f1-2013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19055 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/f1-2013.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"F1 2013 Games with Gold May\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/f1-2013.jpg 620w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/f1-2013-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, though, with only three newly free games across both consoles and one holdover from this month, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":19055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1261,372,378],"class_list":["post-19051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-games-with-gold","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19051"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19063,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19051\/revisions\/19063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}