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Free January Xbox Games with Gold announced: Sleeping dogs and Lara Croft

Sleeping Dogs free January 1-16, while Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will be free January 16-31.

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Microsoft has announced January 2014's set of free games for Xbox Live Gold members on Xbox 360.

Starting Wednesday, January 1, Square Enix's open-world action game Sleeping Dogs (normally $20) will be free. Then from January 16-31, subscribers can download Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (normally $15) for free.

The free games are part of Microsoft's Xbox 360 "Games with Gold" program that gives subscribers two free games to keep per month. New titles are available on the 1st and 16th of every month.

An Xbox Live Gold subscription is $10/month or $60/year. No such promotion is available on Xbox One.

The current free Xbox 360 game for subscribers is Shoot Many Robots (normally $10). The deal expires at midnight tomorrow.

By comparison, Sony will offer BioShock Infinite, DmC: Devil May Cry, and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons as free games for PlayStation Plus members on PlayStation 3 during January 2014. PlayStation 4 owners can download indie hit Don't Starve, while PlayStation Vita owners will be able to download Worms: Battle Island and Smart As… during the month.

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I've been on Gold for 8 years and only PS+ for 3 months, even I can see that PS+ is much better value for miney

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Without a doubt the best games they've given away yet

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Lol, what's free in February? Deadpool and LA Noire?

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I hope we get at least slightly newer games when they finally release the free games with gold on the XB1.

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LOL

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light...
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XBL also offers crazy sales each month as well that nobody mentions. A few months ago I bought Sleeping Dogs for $5 on sale from XBL.


I own a 360, XB1 & PS4 (traded ps3 in years ago). I got the XB1 first, so I have all the good next gen multi-plat games on the XB1. I haven't bought a single game for the PS4, except the free PS+ games Resogun (which is awesome) and Contrast. The only game worth buying on PS4 is Killzone and I don't like it enough to spend $65 on it. So I really have shit to play on the PS4. I don't even know if the disc drive works!


If I had bought all the multi-plat games for PS4 instead, I would have Dead Rising 3, Forza 5 and Ryse to play on XB1. Everyone I've spoken with that owns BOTH next gen consoles prefers the XB1, including myself. It's just got lot more going for it.

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Yes XB1 has lot more cuming from it.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >>LOL.....what you did, I see.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Is that a crack at the "mysterious white goo" nonsense? j/k

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Buying two 2-month-old consoles... When you could buy an awesome PC with that money... Sad.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I have a gaming laptop... Asus G750 hooked to my 55" HDTV. So who's sad now?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> don't be jelly. Gaming laptops are there for people who are willing to pay the extra buck for performance. They preform better than consoles naturally.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >>LMAO.....good one. XD.

Seriously, though homie (meatz666), why you worry/hatin' on what he does or doesn't have?? And for you info dude (not directed at you FallenOneX), I also game on a laptop, too. There's nothing wrong w/ that; frankly it's a fairly decent balance for the kind of PC gaming I do enjoy doing (though I will admit I lean more toward console gaming.).

If you ask me, FallenOneX, I'm thinking that hatorade must tasting kinda salty....lol.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Because people with money obviously don't do what they can to spend it wisely. Dumb comment is dumb.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You just seem to be mad he's "him". First you say he's lying, then you say he's stupid if he's telling the truth. Can you at least tell me how hatorade tastes?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> You, because you're lying. There's no such thing as "gaming laptop", for an instance. Buying a overpriced laptop for gaming is pretty stupid, imo. And, if you're that loaded, why write "XBL also offers crazy sales each month as well that nobody mentions. A few months ago I bought Sleeping Dogs for $5 on sale from XBL. "? Why are you mentioning free and discounted games?

You're just another Xboned, who lies about having two consoles, making the community more stupid with the "Console Wars", something that only the gaming media and marketing companies profit on.

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Glad to see them finally offering an excellent game for the gold subscribers. I'd say most people would have this one by now so it's not gonna do much good, except it flew under the radar for a lot of people it seems, myself included.

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Seriously people, can't we just agree that Xbox Live is far superior as an online service than PSN and PS Plus offers far superior value as far as games go, and move on. Just pick the one that's more important to you and quit bitching about what free games we are getting from xbox live, after all a year ago we were getting nothing. I will never complain about anything that is given extra on top of what I already agreed to pay for.

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@CptMorgan21 I agree.

And since I almost never play online Xbox appeals much less to me, especially with the Netflix/YouTube paywall.

But if you're big into CoD online or MMOs then yeah Xbox is definitely where you should go right now.

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only poor self induce fanboys complains, cause they are too poor to owns both system, i owns all, including pc, no complains there, just get any games and service u want and can afford, what is there to complain, gaming is fun on all system... all i see are poor jealous fanboys not able to play or own the system they lack.. so just complain and rant to ease their jealousy..

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i already own sleeping dogs a great game with a great story

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I gotta say that, having both, XBL tends to work better. The PSN store crashes constantly (at least on ps4), the apps work when they feel like it (music unlimited, anyone?), and the matchmaking seemed to be smoother on XBL (although that could be a game issue, I dont really know how is that handled).

On the other side, just Resogun owns whatever games XBL gives for free.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I read your post and had a good chuckle. The whole reason I read this article is b/c Xbox live is down on my XB1. It rarely happens to me on either my XB1 or PS4 though I do experience more problems with matchmaking and especially voice chat on my XB1.

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Lol these 2 games alone are worth more than the subscription.

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ill still stick with xbl and its dedicated servers for all online games, among the many other features that are xbl exclusive that fanboys conveniently omit when sitting around all day trying to find reasons to cry about something ms did or did not do

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And I'm wondering why everyone says xbox 360 is better than playstation 3.

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@zillaman101 The 360 was the best, imo, at the start of last gen but as the PS3 got better and better the 360 seemed to get less and less first party support. The last couple of years the PS3 has overtaken the 360 in total world wide sales despite releasing a year later. So I would say it is just the online vocal minority that would still claim the 360 is better than the PS3.

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I'm playing battlefield 4 on Xbox360 and having fun.

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wow those games are both ass as well as old as ****. Sleeping dogs was free on PS+ during the summer, that lara croft just can't be justifably sold for more than a few cents. horrible

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I enjoyed Lara Croft actually. Though I received the code for it free when I purchased the last retail Tomb Raider and likely never would have bought it.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Well... ignoring your ridiculous grammar, Sleeping Dogs was a fantastic game. It had a great setting, an engaging story and main character, and the gameplay was solid. More importantly it was different enough from GTA to not be considered a poor attempt at a clone, so it's a great alternative to people who were unimpressed with GTA 4, such as myself.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I enjoyed Sleeping Dogs more then GTA 5.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> it sucks that I own sleeping dogs already but it was not a bad game so stop whining, its free and you keep it unlike psn plus where all your downloads are useless until you reactivate

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Meanwhile...........fine.

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I have all the current and next gen systems (Playstation ID and XBOX Gamertag both are DroopyGangsta) and I have to say that PS Plus hands down is a superior service compared to XBOX live Gold. PS Plus is a requirement for the PS4 to play online plus you get free games for all 3 systems (PS3,4, and VITA). Gold is a requirement for you to enjoy your XBOX, If you don't have it you can't have fun with it.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I'm pretty sure it's a requirement with the exception of the free indi games. Those games are given to you for free with the hope that you purchase all the expansion packs they offer. With games that are paid like 2K and COD you can't play online w/o a PS Plus subscription on PS4.

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And that is so true. We need more people like you and me that knows that PS Plus is better than Live Gold. And possibly PS3 being better than Xbox 360.

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