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Free Xbox One/360 Games With Gold for September 2016 Revealed

A new RPG, open-world racing, and more.

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After revealing one of the month's two Xbox One games early, Microsoft has now shared the full Games With Gold lineup for September.

On Xbox One, indie RPG Earthlock: Festival of Magic will be joined by Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China. The Xbox 360 lineup--also accessible on Xbox One through backward compatibility--consists of Mirror's Edge and the excellent Forza Horizon.

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Now Playing: Xbox September Games with Gold

Earthlock and Horizon will be available from September 1, with China and Mirror's Edge becoming free on September 16. The full schedule for the new games coming to Xbox Live Gold subscribers follows at the bottom of this post.

You can still claim the current slate of Games With Gold titles, two of which (Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate and Beyond Good & Evil HD) will leave at the end of August. WWE 2K16 remains available on Xbox One until September 15.

September 2016 Games With Gold Lineup:

Xbox One

Xbox 360

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Very good month, one of the very few times I'll actually download all 4 offerings.

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This is great - thanks MS! Not sure about the RPG - looks a bit cutesy for me, but will certainly give it a try. Have always toyed with the idea of buying Mirror's Edge and now I don't have to.

I don't think I ever owned FH so will happily accept it esp as 2 days ago I sold FH2 on ebay and will def try the 2D AC game - don't hate me but I'm a fan of the AC games.

This is a really good month for GwG. Keep it up guys!!

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Well played MS.

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MS setting the value bar so high. What kind of twit can complain about $50/year for Live?

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I've been hoping Horizon would come to bc. Great game w best soundtrack ever for me. Good lineup this next month.

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When I saw open world racing I was hoping for Horizon 2. I already have Horizon, but still a good month it looks like.

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Damn Microsoft killing it. If Ps4 got these games the $10 would be acceptable.

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Great month. Mirror's Edge and Horizon for me.

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Pretty good

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Interesting line up. Earthlock is a kickstarter game - looks like a solid RPG.

I've got Horizon 2 to keep me busy till H3 but will be good to finally get a hold of Mirrors Edge and give the 2D AC games a go.

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forza hor 1 was one of the best racers i had ever played at the time. the colorado setting was refreshing and the only bad thing about the game was the rally expansion.

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Good, good, good.....

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Thank you Microsoft! Now I can endure FH 3 hype by playing FH while waiting for FH3 to go on sale :)

Never played Mirror's edge or ACC:China so I'm very happy.

Man, GWG is killing it this year, and BC is a great perk.

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never played the first FH so this is great news.

same goes for ME

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I remember that Phil Spencer had mentioned racing games like Forza could be difficult to bring to B/C because of potential car manufacturer licensing . Now that Forza Horizon is announced as BC for September 1 its encouraging that some of it might be solved and opens the way for Forza 2 through 4.

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@skemaal:

--but
--you know they are bringing it 'back out'
--because horizon and forza are NOTORIOUS for paid dlc content
--even though some of the content is solid(like storm island)
--there are just WAY TO MANY 'cars for sale' man
--it is sorta ridiculous
--i mean true
--it is also to promote Horizon 3
--which is potentially gonna be my favorite racing game yet

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@TheZeroPercent: I'm glad you already scored your comments a double negative as you know that nobody is forced to buy any extra cars. You call Forza "NOTORIOUS for paid DLC" ???? What models are you comparing it to? iRacing? Everything is paid content there, Project Cars? Lots of DLC etc... Racing titles are different, the licenses necessary for the content cost money, they're not maps for a shooter.

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@TheZeroPercent: And absolutely none of those additional DLC cars are required to complete the game and there is plenty of content in the base games to begin with. The only one that kind of sucks is the Porsche cars being a separate DLC in some of the games, but that is partially on EA who holds the exclusive Porsche rights and sublicense them to other developers.

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I hated the free roaming in Catalyst, maybe the more focused Mirror´s Edge "1" will be right up my alley

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Strong month.

Already own Forza Horizon, the implied good news there is that it´s coming to backwards compatibility. Mirror´s Edge is another game that I own in other platforms (PSN and Steam) but have been waiting to play it on Xbox.

AC Chronicles it´s exactly my style of game, even if the reviews were not great, and Earthlock I know nothing about, maybe it´s good...

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@LeoKRock: Yeah, but look at the bright side, now you don't have to put the Horizon disc in the drive anymore. I have a feeling it won't support FFB though....

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Nice lineup!

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Love the 360 collection. Let's see how earth lock turns out.

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Pretty decent month.

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All games I don't have and all games that interest me, awesome! I hope we get some nice from from psplus next. JAMMN'

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Still calling them "free"?

I guess only on consoles would you ever consider games you get when you pay an annual fee, free...

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@ECH71: Wow sony plugs feel totally bent over, I don't mind saying I'm getting some pleasure and amusement from it.

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@ECH71: you're embarrassing. Sore buttholes are sore

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@ECH71: Before GWG was a thing, XBL was $60.

Now with GWG, XBL is still $60.

Sounds free in my book.

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@ECH71: The fee is for online play, the games are a bonus as that feature was added long after Live was introduced....thus a FREE feature of the service.

Do you call out McDonalds the same way if you get a free drink that requires a meal purchase?

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@ECH71: still being salty behind that giant technicality?

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@ECH71: Still butthurt sony is giving trash indies?

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@ECH71: 60 bucks for 750 dollars worth of games. Half of which you keep for ever. Yeah free sounds about right. I mean yeah its technically not free but that is one hell of a deal. Better price then renting and streaming your games that's for sure.

And no smart gamer pays the full 60 bucks for the year service. On top of that, MS pays you back throw the rewards system.

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@ECH71: I'm pretty sure if you subscription ends, you still keep the games.. PSN has it where you loose your games if you don't subscribe.

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@XxAK47xX: Only with the 360 games, but still much better value

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@chiefwiggum16: This ! You need to be subscribed for GWG XB1 games but the 360 games are yours to keep even if your sub runs out.

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@ECH71: 360 games are free the others are rentals, and you pay for online gaming the games were just icing on the cake.

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@chiefwiggum16: Yeah the cheapest rentals money can buy. And not many games you going to play years after. Most of you gamer buy a brand new game, only to sale it a week later at Gamestop. You can't downplay the value you get from it. It would be ignorant of you to try though.

From years of playing on Xbox Live and PC online gaming. I will gladly continue to pay for the online service. A hell of a lot less cheaters and bullshit to deal with then on PC. To each their own. But you can't downplay the great service.

Hell when we run our ARMA 3 servers we have to lock them with passwords and have you go to a website to sign up to play on the server. All of this just to keep cheaters out. PC is a nesting ground for cheaters and I am a competitive online gamer so its really annoying when games don't take the proper measures on PC to prevent cheating. Cheating happens on Xbox Live also not no nearly as frequent. And the best thing about online console gaming we can report the cheaters. Not just word of mouth or through the ingame reporting system. But Xbox Live its self has a reporting system and you can even send the video in. Which gets seen within the week of the incident. And immediately taken care of. With in fact a message from Xbox saying the matter was dealt with.

Try getting that service on PC with every game online. Good luck.

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@legendaryh1tman: Thats why I like the Windows store xbox games. It uses xbox live and it's security. Only ppl who bitch about it ar the ones who are mad because they can't pirate the game.

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@ECH71: People still using that argument? You pay the sub to play online, not for the games. So, yes they are a free bonus. If you buy a pizza and they have a special where you get free pop is the pop not free because you had to pay for the pizza?

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Absolutely awesome month, I already own AC Chronicles on PS4 so I won't bother with that but ME, FH and a new turn based RPG. Lord have mercy Xbox are smashing it with their games with gold recently!!

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