Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox Live Games with Gold for July 2017, which are free titles offered monthly to Xbox Live Gold subscribers, while also announcing more titles that will be added to the Xbox Game Pass service.
The Xbox Live Games with Gold are headlined by Grow Up and Runbow for the Xbox One, while the upcoming titles on the Xbox Game Pass feature zombie-infested Resident Evil 6 and Dead Island: Definitive Edition.
Xbox Games With Gold July 2017
Microsoft announced the free titles for July 2017 under Xbox Games with Gold through a post on the Xbox Wire.
For July, Xbox Games with Gold will offer Grow Up and Runbow as the free Xbox One games. Grow Up, which will see players control a robot to recover parts of a crashed spaceship in an open world, will be available from July 1 to July 31. Meanwhile Runbow, a fast-paced party game that uses a unique color mechanic, will be available from July 16 to Aug. 15.
For the Xbox 360, the free games are Kate & Lynch 2 and LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game. Kane & Lynch, which will be available from July 1 to July 15, will allow players to take on the role of two violent criminals in an action shooter. LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game, which will be available from July 16 to July 30, features characters from the classic movie franchise, but in a LEGO world. Both titles are also playable on the Xbox One as they are part of the console's highly touted Backward Compatibility feature.
Watch Dogs, featured as part of Xbox Games with Gold for June, will also still be available until July 15.
New Xbox Game Pass Titles Include 'Resident Evil 6,' 'Dead Island'
In a separate post on the Xbox Wire, Microsoft revealed that eight more titles will be added to the Xbox Game Pass starting July 1.
Headlining the July additions for the Xbox Game Pass are zombie titles Resident Evil 6 and Dead Island: Definitive Edition. Resident Evil 6 is a third-person shooter that takes the franchise into a more action-oriented direction and away from its survival horror roots that Capcom returned to for Resident Evil 7. Dead Island, meanwhile, is an open-world adventure that starts with four survivors waking up in a hospital during a zombie outbreak.
The other titles that will be added to the Xbox Game Pass are racing simulator F1 2015, post-apocalyptic survival game The Flame in the Flood, platformers Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition and Bard's Gold, and stealth strategy game Monaco: What's Yours is Mine.
The Xbox Game Pass, which only launched on June 1, is a video game subscription service that allows members to play hundreds of Xbox titles for a monthly fee of $10. The service has drawn comparisons to Netflix as a streaming service, with a major difference being that players will download the games, eliminating lag but also giving up valuable hard drive space.
Microsoft did not mention if any games currently offered under the service will leave on July 1, though it previously said that a handful of games will be added or removed from the Xbox Game Pass monthly.
