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Xbox One/360 Free Games With Gold for August 2015 Revealed

Two new games for Xbox One and Xbox 360 each once again.

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Microsoft has announced the slate of four games set to be made available for free to Xbox Live Gold members during August, including two each for Xbox One and Xbox 360.

Among the games coming next month are both Metro games on Xbox 360 and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes on Xbox One, which comes just ahead of The Phantom Pain's launch on September 1. You can see the full schedule below.

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One of July's two games for Xbox One, So Many Me, remains available until August 15.

Microsoft announced last month that it would begin offering two games for both Xbox One and Xbox 360 each month as part of the Games With Gold program. Previously, Xbox One often received only a single new game.

Both Ground Zeroes and Metro 2033 will be available for free to Gold members starting this Saturday, August 1. In the meantime, it's not too late to still grab some of July's games, including Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and Gears of War 3.

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Xbox has better customer service than Sony. PS brand needs to get its stuff together and release more exclusives on PS4...

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dang and i literally bought both of these games 2-3 weeks ago ...there both good!!!!

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Xbox Stealing an idea from SONY PS + Free games. Well Done.

What does it feel like to be last place ?


Since 1994 SONY : PS1 , PS2 , PS3 , PS4 , PSP , PS VITA = Half a BILLION Sold World wide.

Check Google Xbox fan boys.

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@Terminator95:

Alright, kiddo, we'll rumble.

"OH LOOK, THE PLAYSTATION HAS SOLD A HALF BILLION UNITS, TOTAL! THAT'S WAY BETTER THAN MICROSOFT'S DONE!"

Pfft. Chump.

Want to know what a half billion units looks like? That's just Windows 7 for Microsoft.
There's the fact that Microsoft's been making what are essentially game consoles since... before Nintendo existed. Yes, consoles. The MSX "home computers" (in the same way that the Atari was a home computer) was all about gaming. And they released free games for that. And they released free games REPEATEDLY for Windows. Heck, every single piece of Microsoft software came with free games for a long time.

Microsoft's sold more games than the other two major players COMBINED. You look at the list of best selling games of all time, and you know what they're all on? Windows. Tons of the top selling console games? Xbox.

Heck, a ton of Sony's game code is freaking licensed from Microsoft. Tons of the OpenGL code at this point was designed SOLELY to replicate functionality that exists in... DirectX.

Your whole shill of a platform came from ripping off Nintendo and Microsoft and then pretending to have a better platform. STFD.

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@Terminator95: Just like sony stole party system from xbox

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@Terminator95: Wow... talk about a fanboy. Does anyone REALLY care which one sells the most? I loved my PS2 and still have it, but guess what? I grew adult size hands and things had to change. Hell, even then it was a struggle to play with that controller. By the way didn't PS+ start with temporary games? You couldn't even open them after so long or something like that? Even with the big hack thingy a while back what'd they do? Said, "Sorry, here's some demos ." It wasn't til they started charging you a monthly fee (like xbox) when you got to start keeping the games. I think maybe most 360 owners thought there was no huge reason to pounce on the One right away, where PS3 folks felt they were missing something. Maybe that's why sales are lower. Point is unless you work for / own stock in MS or Sony you shouldn't give a hoot. Just be happy that you have one or the other (or both) and play it! Theyre both about the same anyway.

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@carolinachiefi have large hands and ps1 ps2 ps3 all fit well, more so than xbox ever did. and whats with the analog sticks on xbox, thats not where my thumbs are.

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@haze0986:I didn't say I had large hands, just hands that are too big for a PS controller. And if you did have large hands, your thumbs would probably NOT be where the PS joysticks are, haha.

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@Terminator95: You're so enthusiastic that Sony is raking it in! It's almost as if you were also making money off those sales.

Almost.

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YES!! METRO!!! FINALLY!!! I have been waiting for this day....

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With the Xbox One approaching it's two year mark, with a growing library, I think we're now closer to seeing "triple A" caliber games as the Games with Gold freebies.

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Great now I can finally play the MGS V demo.

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Getting a good feeling that Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition will be free next month. Especially after that 9 dollar sale from earlier in July.

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@quigonzel: It was already free on 360.

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Another month of pure win.

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Wow and here I was about to re purchases ground zeros because I traded it in and the phantom pain hype was starting to get to me.....:D

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Was thinking about getting MGS V so this could be like a demo anyone know if its good

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@mupet-man: for free yes its definitely worth getting. a solid stealth game with lots of replay value missions have secondary objectives you can choose to do or not like rescue prisoners blow up anti air etc and you can complete missions how you want stealth or full on assault give it a try.

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Decent month for people still on the 360, both Metro games are pretty good. Already got GZ on PS4 for free, and i dont know much about How to Survive. Definitely give Ground Zeros a play, its classic Metal Gear Solid. Id consider it the Intro to Phantom Pain. Its quite good, if you are into the series.

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Yea, picking up GZ and the metro stuff. Gonna be a good month.

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Never played GZ so win and downloading everything that comes to 360 is a good idea....yall know why :)

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Fff.... I bought GZ a couple weeks ago... Why couldn't I wait it out?

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I got Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes on PS4 this month. Still might as well get it on Xbox One as well. Free is free

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@GH05T-666: Youll also get it keep it on xbox should you decide not to renew gold. Something sony could do with offering.

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@EcksTheory: i dont have plus anymore, and all but 2 games are playable, dont know if im lucky or not but i dont think thats the case anymore

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@EcksTheory: Negatory. Xbox One Games With Gold require a sub to keep them. Xbox 360 still get to keep their games after the sub runs out though.

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Ground Zeros is a good selection for free game of the month.

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@AyatollaofRnR: For the fans it was a good game to buy at the start too, I and many others have over 100 hours in it experimenting with the physics and gameplay. c4 is your friend

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Lookin forward to How to Survive but meh for MGS. Bought it near the beginning of the year and played the heck outa it, and when ps4 gave it for free last month I believe I got it again. I was that person sitting there with MGS ps4 on my TV and MGS Xbox streaming to my surface to see if I could see a graphical difference xD needless to say wasn't as big as I thought it would be considering the comparison that was made when it first came out.

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@Buck_jr: I noticed a pretty big difference? Some reason his hair looked blocky on xbox one?

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Ugh, great, nothing I remotely care about this month. *sighs*

I wish they'd be a bit more varied in their genre choices each month - say for example an RPG or platformer, an FPS, a sports game of some kind and maybe a non-specific game, instead of having all a month's games in one genre or two very similar to each other.

Oh well. I suppose it doesn't hurt not to be adding more to my backlog, but given how rarely I play multiplayer I'm feeling I may be paying more than I ought.

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@trialia: I am definitely paying more than I should, on PS4 too. I almost never play multiplayer, kinda dumb but oh well. It's not too bad I guess, since I always wait for the deals on 12 month subscriptions which works out to only a little over $3 a month.

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Ground zeroes is fun, especially for free

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Pretty good list this month, altho nothing for me...

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I'll try Ground Zeroes for that price.

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@deathstream: you mean for zero dollars and zero cents?

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@streetz_86: Precisely. It is a demo. It is demo priced. That works for me.

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Oh nice, I liked How To Survive on 360. I look forward to giving the Metros a try.

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Would be nice to have the free games be Xbox exclusives; any multi platform games I'd rather have for my PC.

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Nice. Right when I was considering getting Metro Redux.

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They should have flipped those and gave us the remastered Metro games on Xbone. PS4 got MGS:GZ a few months ago as it is.

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Ground Zeroes? A free demo haha

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