Games with Gold

First announced during E3 2013, the Games with Gold program offers free Xbox 360 games to users who purchased Gold-level memberships for Xbox Live. The program was extended to the new Xbox One console one year later.

Xbox 360
Players with active Xbox Live Gold memberships (excluding trial memberships and "free Gold" weekends) may download free games during their respective availability periods. When downloaded, the game belongs to the user even if they subsequently drop their Xbox Live Gold membership. Two titles are released a month, with the exception of April 2015 (which had four) and June 2014 (which had three). The first game is free to download from the first of the month until the fifteenth, and then the second being available to download from the sixteenth until the end of the month.