{"id":21312,"date":"2015-10-08T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=21312"},"modified":"2015-10-07T21:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T04:21:23","slug":"xbox-lives-free-games-gold-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/xbox-lives-free-games-gold-october-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Live&#8217;s Free Games with Gold October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Major Nelson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/majornelson.com\/2015\/09\/24\/xbox-live-games-with-gold-for-october-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">claims<\/a> 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 the third Xbox, for that matter, not number One, Major. Are you okay? We love you. You&#8217;ll be okay.<\/p>\n<h2>Xbox One Free Games<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Valiant Hearts: The Great War (free from Oct. 1 to Oct. 31)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MP8q5F6dFqQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Voted &#8220;best trailer&#8221; of 2014\u00a0by me, Ubisoft&#8217;s second experimental, faux-indie game (following\u00a0<em>Child of Light<\/em>) was far more interesting from a narrative standpoint, but essentially thrived and died on some pretty basic 2D puzzling gameplay. Simply put, divergent folks attempt to survive the first World War with varying success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season (free from Oct. 16 to Nov. 15)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/the-walking-dead.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-21327\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/the-walking-dead-1024x576.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Walking Dead Season 1 Games with Gold October 2015\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/the-walking-dead-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/the-walking-dead-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/the-walking-dead.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And speaking of interesting narratives, Telltale Games&#8217; first season of\u00a0<em>The Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>was nothing short of groundbreaking for the studio and storytelling in games on the whole. All those random spin-off games (<em>Game of Thrones, Borderlands, Minecraft<\/em>) coming out of Telltale wouldn&#8217;t exist if not for Clementine and Lee&#8217;s five episode tearjerker. So play it, even if you don&#8217;t want to. You might as well know why.<\/p>\n<h2>Xbox 360 Free Games<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (free from Oct. 1 to Oct. 15)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-Ground-Zeroes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19309\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-Ground-Zeroes-1024x576.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Games with Gold October 2015\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-Ground-Zeroes-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-Ground-Zeroes-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-Ground-Zeroes.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This prequel went free for the Xbox One already, so why not, in the month after the real\u00a0<em>Metal Gear Solid V&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>official release, do it for the Xbox 360? Yes, it&#8217;s essentially an advertisement, but it&#8217;s a fun, two-hour long advertisement. With Konami drifting away from AAA development and famed Metal Gear director Hideo Kojima completely out of the company now, these two titles might just be the last of Snake&#8217;s full-fledged adventures. But probably not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season (free from Oct. 15 to Oct. 31)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Major Nelson thinks this game isn&#8217;t the same as the one listed above. Sure, he&#8217;s technically right. But he&#8217;s wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Nelson\u00a0claims 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 the third Xbox, for that matter, not number One, Major. Are you okay? We love you. You&#8217;ll be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":21327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1261,25,378],"class_list":["post-21312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-games-with-gold","tag-video-games","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312","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=21312"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21317,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312\/revisions\/21317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}