Xbox One Games With Gold Starts Next Month

[I Black Belt]

Just found this.

During June, Xbox One Gold LIVE members will be able to download [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]. The one thing that you will need to bear in mind is that you will need to have an active Gold membership to be able to play your free games. If you let your Gold membership lapse, you will not be able to play those free games until you re-purchase your Gold. You must also download the titles during the promotional window, so those who are planning on getting an Xbox One at a later date are unlikely to be able to trigger the free games on Xbox.com ready for when they buy the console at a later date.

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[bobo06]

About time.

[Jokah]

I wouldn't have paid money for either of these games but I'll certainly be giving Halo a try for free. Looks fun. Curse of the brotherhood not so much.

Good to see games with gold been implemented on Xbox one. Didn't think it would be ready for it as I would have thought there's hardly any games they'd be willing to give away for free yet.

[Hangman]

Do you think they will have re-coded some older games to run on XB1?

[Jokah]

Do you think they will have re-coded some older games to run on XB1?

I wouldn't have thought so. I know pretty much bugger all about game development and game coding but I presume that it would be quite a task to re-code last gen to current gen due to the vastly different architectures. Especially for something they are going to give away for free. I mean who would re-code it? I'm sure the game studio's who made it would have better things to do than re-code a game there not gonna get paid for.

I like the idea but just don't see it. Hoping to be proved wrong though.

[inspectercoley]

Humm, need to find someone with an xbox one to register the games to my gold account.
I wonder if you can do that on xbox.com if you haven't registred your account to an xbox?
Would be good to get some of the free games before getting an xbox one.

[Jokah]

I don't recall ever registering my Xbox One unless it just does it automatically when you sign into your account on it? Don't know how it all works really regarding activating the games online (xbox.com) then using on your Xbox.

Not sure what my point is. Just pointing out that there is no specific registration process.

[AD]

a lot of the xbox 360 XBLA games are on the pc version of windows live. So would be easier to port the pc versions.

[akimba]

Got both of those games and both excellent ;-)

If they giving them away I would recommend you do download them

[Goldberg]

Humm, need to find someone with an xbox one to register the games to my gold account.
I wonder if you can do that on xbox.com if you haven't registred your account to an xbox?
Would be good to get some of the free games before getting an xbox one.

Can you not just do it over the web?
I normally queue up the Xbox 360 games this way so that when I get home and turn on the 360 they automatically download.

Obviously if you have no Xbox One console registered it might be a different matter.... I cannot access xboxlive site through work (classed as games so it is blocked) to try.

[EvilBoB]

I bought Halo as I'm a huge fan of the Halo franchise. It is actually good fun. Haven't played Max though - I'll be queuing it up when they start it.

[akimba]

I bought Halo as I'm a huge fan of the Halo franchise. It is actually good fun. Haven't played Max though - I'll be queuing it up when they start it.

Max is a brilliant puzzle platformer, heres my skills ;-) [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

[x_Mr_C_x]

Both games are now available for download.

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

[EvilBoB]

Just grabbed Max - already had Halo You can get them direct from these links and they will auto download to your console in the background :
Halo : [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Max : [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Login and buy for £0

[Mystical_2K]

im amazed they are giving away free games so early, no strings attached i assume? apart from requiring a gold account of course!

[Bald Bouncer]

im amazed they are giving away free games so early, no strings attached i assume? apart from requiring a gold account of course!

Don't think it's something they wanted to do I think it's due to Sony doing it, good to have 2 big names in the console scene as they keep each other honest and competitive

[Mystical_2K]

Don't think it's something they wanted to do I think it's due to Sony doing it, good to have 2 big names in the console scene as they keep each other honest and competitive

ah thanks, makes a bit more sense

[bbshark]

been waiting for these to show up. into that power star golf at the mo

[akimba]

been waiting for these to show up. into that power star golf at the mo

Yeah I been doing a few rounds lately too ;-)

As said before Max is a wicked little game well worth downloading ;-)

[AD]

Yeah I started playing that last night... Like it alot... may get the full game.