The current Games for Gold game, available until May 1 (don’t blink), is Tequila Work’s 2012 2-D zombie game “Deadlight.” 15 Xbox Store games to check out As of yet they aren’t available for Xbox One. New Games for Gold games aren’t announced well in advance, so it’s important to see what the new game will be. But if you do download it, the game is yours forever, even if you stop subscribing to Xbox Live: a significant difference from PS+. If you miss downloading the game in that timespan, you’re out of luck. Games are available one at a time, usually for half a month. That has become a lot better in recent months, with “Dead Island,” “Sleeping Dogs” and “Hitman Absolution” now free. Although popular, the first few games, such as “Assassin’s Creed 2” and “Halo 3,” were a few of the games people bought the console for in the first place and likely already owned. At first, the games were nothing special. With the raving success of PlayStation Plus, eventually Microsoft was bound to try their hand at giving their users free games for subscribing to Xbox Live Gold.

The addition of voice commands and the ability to scan QR codes with Kinect for things like add-on DLC make this much easier to deal with, thankfully. The Xbox One’s store is much faster than the 360’s, although it suffers from some of the same problems the PSN store does, namely the organizational aspect. It’s quick and simple and means a lot of the searching happens before actually getting into the store. Also unlike PSN, the Xbox Games Store splits games, movies and other entertainment into their own subsections. Unlike PSN, where the store is its own application and takes a bit of time to load, Xbox 360’s store is built right into the 360’s user interface. When it came to online features, the Xbox 360 dominated the past gen, partly because it got the financial support of players paying to access online multiplayer and streaming services like Netflix.

Today, we’re setting our eyes on the competition with the Xbox Games Store. Yesterday, we took a look at the PlayStation’s online store. Throughout the week, The Badger Herald will be looking into the digital gaming stores of various consoles, including an overview of their functions, key features and a selection of exclusive downloadable games to check out on each system (with an exception for games also available on PC).

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