14 DAY TRIAL // The development team at Microsoft in charge of its home consoles announces that those who have access to an Xbox Live Gold subscription will be able to get access to three titles on the Xbox One and the 360 in July: Guacamelee, Gotham City Impostors and BattleBlock Theater.
The program is designed to offer fans of the two devices access to a variety of titles for free and has been created in order to offer similar value to the PS Plus offering from Sony for the PlayStation range of devices.
On the Xbox One, gamers will be able to get access to Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, a title created by DrinkBox Studios, which mixes both brawler and platformer elements.
The official Xbox Wire announcement states, "You play Juan Aguacate, a masked Mexican wrestler on a quest to save the President’s daughter from the evil, skeletal Carlos Calaca – you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll elbow-drop jaguars."
The game has a good-looking and interesting world to explore and plenty of secret areas for gamers to discover.
Halo: Spartan Assault is the Xbox One title that will no longer be available after June 30.
The first Xbox 360 title included in the Games with Gold initiative is Gotham City Impostors from Monolith Productions, a first-person shooter with a multiplayer focus that is based on the popular comic book universe from DC Comics.
Gamers can organize themselves in two teams of six and then use a variety of weapons based on the equipment that Batman and his Arch enemy The Joker had.
The final title offered to the loyal Xbox 360 community is BattleBlock Theater by The Behemoth and Microsoft adds, "You’ve got nowhere to go but up on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines."
The company has recently dropped the price of the Xbox One to 399 dollars or Euro and has eliminated the Kinect motion tracking system from the core package.
But Sony currently has the edge in terms of worldwide sales and the company has recently unveiled an exciting line-up of games for its own PS Plus service for the PlayStation 4, the PS3 and the Vita.
With the two next-gen consoles now selling for the same price, it will be interesting to see how the June sales numbers look in both North America and Europe when they are revealed in the middle of next month.