Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers are getting four free games next month. March’s slate of titles includes a couple of fairly recent indie games and a couple much older titles. The first two games coming to the service next month are The Flame in the Flood and Sacred 2 Fallen Angel. The Flame in the Flood […]

The two biggest names on Xbox Live’s Games with Gold lineup for October 2021 come from the Xbox 360 — and the Sega Dreamcast, originally. Castlevania: Harmony of Despair and Resident Evil Code: Veronica X headline the backward-compatible offerings for the Halloween-themed month. Resident Evil Code: Veronica X is the high-definition remaster of 2000’s Resident Evil — Code: Veronica for […]

Xbox Live Gold subscribers will get four free games in August. Microsoft announced the latest slate of Games with Gold titles on Wednesday, along with the dates that they’ll be available in August. Among this month’s games is Darksiders 3, a character-action game with one of the greatest premises of all time: Players control Fury, one of the Four Horsemen […]

Space Jam: A New Legacy, the sequel to the iconic ’90s sports comedy with Looney Tunes characters, is getting a video game tie-in. Space Jam: A New Legacy – The Game will launch exclusively as part of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Perks program on July 1. It will become free-to-play on the Microsoft Store on July 15, according to […]

Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers get four free games under Microsoft’s Xbox Games with Gold program in June, but they may only recognize one of them. That’s 2013’s Injustice: Gods Among Us. The DC Universe fighting game isn’t available until June 16, however. Injustice is an Xbox 360 game; all of June’s Games with Gold are […]

Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will get four free games in May as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Games with Gold program. Next month’s games will roll out on May 1 with Traveller’s Tales’ kid-friendly action brawler Lego Batman: The Video Game for Xbox 360 and League of Geeks’ “grim fairy tale board game come to life” […]

Many free-to-play games on Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X and Xbox One consoles will no longer require an Xbox Live Gold membership, Microsoft announced on Wednesday. The change was made official after Microsoft started lifting the restriction in its Xbox Insiders beta testing program. Furthermore, a system update this month will open up the Looking for Group option to […]

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X on Friday. But over the weekend, Xbox players started reporting crashes before they could even launch the game. After rave reviews, Activision announced plans last month to bring Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 to next-gen consoles and the Nintendo Switch. The PlayStation 5 […]

Microsoft is currently testing a change to Xbox Live Gold that would allow players to access certain online multiplayer features — such as multiplayer gaming in free-to-play titles — without an active Xbox Live Gold subscription, the company announced Wednesday on the Xbox Insider Twitter account. The company originally announced plans to make this change alongside a rollback of a […]

After over 18 years, Microsoft will soon rename Xbox Live. The service will be called Xbox network. Some of the earliest mentions of the name change came from beta testers of Xbox’s new dashboard, however Microsoft has since confirmed the changes itself. In a statement to The Verge, a Microsoft spokesperson said, “‘Xbox network’ refers to the underlying Xbox online […]