What is XBOX Live Gold and what are its benefits?

Xbox Live gold or also knows as Xbox live, is a paid feature from Xbox that allows you play online with your friends and other online players. Xbox live gold was first made available to users on November 2002. This service is available for both Xbox 360 and Xbox One players.

With Xbox Live Gold subscription you also will have a few free games each month. Games provided with Xbox Live Gold would be free if you download them and are available and playable in your account as long as you keep the subscription. As soon as your subscription to Xbox Live Gold expires, games wont work anymore. Click here to see this month’s available games with Xbox Gold Live.

Also, there are a lot of discounts when you have Xbox Live Gold. Discounts are usually available for Games. Click here to see all deals with Xbox Live Gold.

Cal I play online with my friends that have Play Station if I have Xbox Live gold?

This is a feature that a lot of people are asking. Right now, this only depends on the game that you want to play. If the game is Cross-Platform supported, then yes you can play it online with your friends that have other consoles such as PlayStation. But if the game doesn’t support it, you cannot play it with other users that are using different consoles and will need to wait until it’s supported on the game.

A few popular games that are cross-platform are:

Fortnite, Minecraft, Rocket League, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, PUBG and a few other games.