Xbox Live Gold subscribers will get an interesting mix of games in Games with Gold’s January lineup. Microsoft has announced that next month's Games with Gold will include
Celeste and
WRC 6 FIA World Rally Championship for Xbox One, while Xbox 360 owners will get access to
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and
Far Cry 2. Both games will be available to XO owners via backward compatibility.
Here’s when each game will be available via January's Games with Gold:
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Celeste: January 1 - 31 (Xbox One)
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WRC 6 FIA World Rally Championship: January 16 - February 15 (Xbox One)
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Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light: November 1 - 15 (Xbox 360/Xbox One)
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Far Cry 2: November 16 - 31 (Xbox 360/Xbox One)
Games with Gold is a benefit of Xbox Live Gold. Microsoft's consumer-friendly program provides Gold members with free, hand-selected games every month, worth up to $700 per year, as the subscription service is available to all Xbox Live Gold members. To download free games monthly, you just need to be an Xbox Live Gold member when you redeem any Games with Gold offers. Take a look:
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
On a race track, it's the car that makes all the difference. In a rally, it's the driver! WRC 6 is the official video game of the 2016 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). It includes the 14 WRC events, all the official WRC drivers and teams, as well as a wide selection of WRC 2 and Junior WRC drivers.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is an action/adventure game featuring Lara Croft. This brand extension combines the hallmarks of the Tomb Raider franchise including exploration & discovery, platforming, and puzzle solving combined with character progression, fun fast-paced combat, and elements of human cooperation and competition.
You are a gun for hire, trapped in a war-torn African state, stricken with malaria and forced to make deals with corrupt warlords on both sides of the conflict in order to make this country your home. You must identify and exploit your enemies' weaknesses, neutralizing their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and of course brute force.