Xbox Live Games with Gold Program Extended

<p>Microsoft debuted the Games with Gold program for Xbox Live Gold members during E3 earlier this year&period; Since it&&num;8217&semi;s beginning&comma; it has offered free games to paying Xbox Live members&comma; like <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed II&comma; Halo 3<&sol;em> and <em>Crackdown<&sol;em>&period; The service was only supposed to run until the end of the year&comma; but <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;news&period;xbox&period;com&sol;2013&sol;10&sol;xbox-360-games-with-gold">Microsoft has now come out and announced<&sol;a> that the program is being extended and will be an &&num;8216&semi;ongoing benefit&&num;8217&semi; for Xbox 360 users&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People must really like Games with Gold&comma; because a massive 97&percnt; of people surveyed stated that they liked the program and want more free games&period; The free game aspect is why PlayStation Plus gets so much praise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Still&comma; though&comma; we don&&num;8217&semi;t know if the Xbox One will continue the Games with Gold service&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;d be in Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s best interest to do so&period; Especially if it&&num;8217&semi;s to compete directly with Sony&&num;8217&semi;s PS Plus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrace;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;news&period;xbox&period;com&sol;2013&sol;10&sol;xbox-360-games-with-gold">Xbox Wire<&sol;a>&rcub;<&sol;p>&NewLine;