First announced during E3 2013, the Games with Gold program offers free Xbox 360 games to users who have an Xbox Live Gold subscription. The program was extended to the Xbox One a year later. Starting October 2022, the program no longer offers games for the Xbox 360.
Beginning in July 2015, Microsoft announced the expansion of the Games With Gold program to officially offer two games each month for the Xbox One, just like with the Xbox 360. Each game will be offered for a full month, with one game being available from the 1st of the month until the last day of the month and the second game being available from the 16th of the month until the 15th of the following month. This was a change from previous policy: when the program had begun including Xbox One games, it had started with two games, rotating them so that each month included one new game and one game that had been offered the month before.
June Xbox Live Games With Gold announced
Microsoft has announced the June 2018 list of free games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Games from the Sonic and Assassin's Creed franchises are included with this month's offering, but they aren't main games in either series.
On the Xbox Wire, the games that will be available for free through Games with Gold for the month of May have been announced. The first game is Armello, which will be available from May 1st to 31st. Armello is a grim fairytale board game come to life, and mixes the deep tactics of card games and the strategy of tabletop games, all combined into a character-building RPG. Players will wage epic battles, explore a vast kingdom, cast spells, and vanquish monsters, all with the goal of becoming the next ruler of Armello.
Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners can look forward to a rotating schedule of free games each month with the Xbox Live Games with Gold program. There's a new set of titles players can download for free each month, and the latest May releases have just been announced via Major Nelson.
Though some are announced just for Xbox One and some for Xbox 360, the Xbox 360 titles are available to play as Backwards Compatible games for your Xbox One. If you're an avid collector of each of the Xbox Live Games with Gold program, check out what the offerings for May are with our list below.
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