Last week, we brought news of Xbox's final batch of Games with Gold titles prior to the service closing down in favour of Xbox Game Pass Core. Well, those two titles in Blue Fire and Inertial Drift are now live - so grab them before GWG disappears for good!
Yep, these two mark your last ever Games with Gold drops - from September 14th Xbox Live Gold members will be transferred to an Xbox Game Pass Core subscription, which includes around 25 games at launch. So far, Microsoft has confirmed 19 of those games that'll make up the Game Pass Core library.
The good news is that all of your previously redeemed Games with Gold entries will carry over to the new Game Pass Core tier, so you won't lose access to anything that's been redeemed on your Gold account. We'll drop all the details on that transition down below.
And with that, we officially say goodbye to Xbox Games with Gold! We can't say it's been the smoothest ride, but we've had some great free games over the years and ultimately, it's still been a nice bonus for Xbox Live Gold members. We're intrigued to see how the Xbox Game Pass Core library grows in the coming years, hopefully it remains worth exploring!
Let us know which of these final GWG titles you're playing in the poll down below.
Which Of These GWG Titles Will You Be Playing? (463 votes)
- Blue Fire
- Inertial Drift
- Both
- Neither
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Not live here in the US yet (at least for me) but they’ll probs show up within the next 24 hours. I also still haven’t received the new dashboard update, not that I care much about that lol.
I have not received the update either. I know this is probably not the case, but I thought maybe Microsoft saw all of my complaining and decided to hold off updating my consoles. Haha. I wonder of maybe Microsoft is holding off updating any more consoles because of the backlash. I'm just speculating.
Out with a whimper.
And don't come back...
This highlights why the service is so poorly received. These are both games that are mediocre-good (certainly nothing amazing) and several years old. So most people who would enjoy these relatively niche games already played them in 2020
Snagged em both, but will likely only play Blue Fire, if I play it. Already have it on Switch from when it released, good game and NL gave it an 8/10 then. And it should be even better now with more updates since then. Not sure if it ever had dlc….
Microsoft should have done so much better, what with this being the last ever batch of GWG. Shame.
I will miss it. It’s nice building up a library of obscure games. Shame very few seem to think so.
I missed out a lot of the better GWG, but aside from those few, the 360 & OG Xbox were the only ones I ever played. If I could trade all my Xbox One games I got with it for $40 of Microsoft Store credit, the amount they lied each month gave a value of, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Way to go out with a whimper
@Wheatly Your not getting less, Ultimate Gamepass will be getting all those Activision Blizzard titles
Good riddance
Jesus... They couldn't even go out with a bang in any way? This is like a fart in the wind...
I'll kind of miss GWG. It really is like an xbox tradition. Yeah, there's been some utter tat but there's been a few gems too. Strange, whenever I think about xbox live gold, I instantly think of that little headset and the quite frankly amazing xbox live arcade. Free games, no matter if good or bad, were free. And free is always good. RIP GWG!
2 good Indies why not.
Anyone else: Not big titles or bigger Indies don't care because don't recognise the names/not what play usually.
I mean since when were they going to offer big titles at the end anyway? Would have been nice but I doubt it.
Honestly if what was in Gamepass that's leaving was for Gold instead then I think it would have been better but it wasn't so not surprised. Besides yes other titles but I mean they wouldn't have offered them likely.
Whelp add to the library or not and welcoming Core good deal or not.
So long, GwG.
It’s been real, it’s been fun, but it hasn’t been real fun.
Last ever lol. I would have assumed the last ever would be something to remember, but it's something I've never even heard of.
With these two games, my library says I have 163 games through Games With Gold. I rarely would skip a download unless it was seriously a game I would have so little interest in playing.
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