Another month, another set of free games for Xbox and PlayStation owners. Last month Xbox owners didn’t have the greatest selection to choose from. Meanwhile, PlayStation owners had the chance to get their hands on both Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry and Just Cause 3. This month features quite a few stellar options for both consoles though. There’s an acclaimed indie game for Xbox, a VR title for PlayStation owners, a big-name AAA title for each and more.  

Xbox

Forza Motorsport 5: Racing Game of the Year Edition

The Forza Motorsport 5 Racing Game of the Year Edition includes the Top Gear Car Pack, including ten additional cars for you to collect, race, and customize, featuring the 2013 Holden #10 Holden Xbox Racing Team Commodore VF, 1966 Chaparral #66 Chaparral Cars 2E and the 2013 Audi RS4 Avant. Forza Motorsport 5 is your ultimate car fantasy, only possible on Xbox One. Featuring an entirely new graphics engine, 16-player multiplayer, cloud-powered gameplay, and hundreds of perfectly recreated cars, Forza Motorsport 5 is where dreams are driven. The downloadable version of this game supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese languages.

Oxenfree

Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. Play as Alex, a bright, rebellious teenager who brings her new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight party on an old military island. The night takes a terrifying turn when you unwittingly open a ghostly gate spawned from the island’s cryptic past. How you deal with these events, your peers, and the ominous creatures you’ve unleashed is up to you.

YOU determine every aspect of Alex’s story while exploring Edwards Island, uncovering the base’s dark past, and changing the course of your friends’ lives. 

Battlefield 3

Battlefield 3 leaps ahead of the competition with the power of Frostbite™ 2, the next installment of DICE’s cutting-edge game engine. This state-of-the-art technology is the foundation on which Battlefield 3 is built, delivering superior visual quality, a grand sense of scale, massive destruction, dynamic audio and incredibly lifelike character animations. As bullets whiz by, walls crumble, and explosions throw you to the ground, the battlefield feels more alive and interactive than ever before. In Battlefield 3, players step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines where they will experience heart-pounding single player missions and competitive multiplayer actions ranging across diverse locations from around the globe including Paris, Tehran and New York.

Hydro Thunder Hurricane

Hydro Thunder Hurricane features high-powered speedboats rocketing through over-the-top themed environments, gorgeous visuals, and amazing dynamic water physics.

Test your skills in 11 mysterious and dangerous race environments including Monster Island, the Bermuda Triangle and Area 51 – each one packed with massive jumps and drop-offs, secret shortcuts, destructible objects, and special events that racers trigger in-game.

Unlock 20 all-new transforming speedboats as well as classics from the original Hydro Thunder like Razorback and Rad Hazard. Collect Boost powerups and fire up your on-board rockets for teeth-rattling speed. Conquer four game modes – Races, Ring Masters, Gauntlet, Championships — and race against your Friends’ best performances in the all-new Ghost Race! 

PlayStation

inFamous: Second Son

inFAMOUS Second Son, a PlayStation 4 exclusive , brings you an action adventure game where surrounded by a society that fears them, superhumans are ruthlessly hunted down and caged by the Department of Unified Protection. Step into a locked-down Seattle as Delsin Rowe, who has recently discovered his superhuman power and is now capable of fighting back against the oppressive DUP. Enjoy your power as you choose how you will push your awesome abilities to the limit and witness the consequences of your actions as they affect the city and people around you.

Strike Vector EX

Strike Vector EX is a competitive first-person aerial-combat game that satisfies every gamer’s fantasy of waging dizzying dogfights with super-powered aircraft. Bursting with customizable mech-inspired ships, Strike Vector EX disrupts the air combat genre through a combination of impressive mechanics, imaginative aircraft, and stunning, first-person, fast-paced multiplayer fights.

Truck Racer

Take control of five tons of metal and power, and floor it until you reach the finish line! Drive fully destructible trucks in Championship, Time Attack, Elimination and Quick Race. Get rid of opponents trying to block your way and make a reputation for yourself! Customize your vehicle from the engine to the paint, choose among 48 tracks and face your friends in Online or Local multiplayer for maximum destruction!

Handball 2016

 Play with all 68 teams from the three biggest European leagues in the FIRST handball simulation. Discover an intuitive game system with 24 offensive and defensive tactical set-ups. Use all the real handball moves and tactics: the spin shot, the hip shot and a wide range of tactical systems and realistic moves. Fully experience the 2015-2016 season with the official players, kits and statistics from the most prestigious leagues: the Championnat de D1 (France), the DKB Handball-Bundesliga (Germany) and the Liga Asobal (Spain). Take on the AI or other players in friendly matches, create your player, manage your development in career mode, play an entire season and lead your team to victory!

RIGS Mechanized Combat League for PSVR (Sept. 5 – Nov. 7)

 RIGS throws you into explosive battle arenas where mechanised combat and futuristic sports collide head-on.

Immerse yourself into a gripping single player experience that will push your skills to the limit and sharpen your team tactics. Unlock new and more powerful RIGS to then take online against the world.

Compete in a series of sporting events in the Mechanized Combat League – a near future sports league which pits teams of pilots against each other in real world locations. Face off against other teams from around the globe and enjoy an unprecedented sense of spatial awareness in multiple game modes with hero RIGS at your disposal.