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Forza Motorsport 5 is free with Gold on Xbox One this weekend
Plus - win an all-expenses-paid trip to some hotshot driving school in Arizona
Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be able to download and play Forza Motorsport 5 on Xbox One for free this weekend, as Microsoft "gears up" (did you see what they did there, etc) for the launch of Forza Horizon 2.
"Beginning at 12:01 a.m. PDT, Thursday, Sept. 4 through 11:59 p.m. PDT, Sunday, Sept. 7, Gold members in Xbox One markets can play the newest entry in the highest-rated racing franchise of the past decade, Forza Motorsport 5, in entirety and for free," reads the NewsWire post in question.
Attachment 15562Attachment 15563Attachment 15564Attachment 15565Attachment 15566Attachment 15567Attachment 15568The Grand Tour of Prague - a "special multiclass endurance in-game race event" will be available for play throughout this weekend. If you complete it and drive at least 130 miles in the race, you'll get a new title and badge for your Forza Motorsport 5 profile.
US-based Xbox Golders who take advantage of the offer could also win "an all-expenses paid trip to the three-day Forza Motorsport Grand Prix Road Racing Class at the esteemed Bondurant School of High Performance Driving in Arizona". Sounds seismic.
Read our Forza Motorsport 5 review for more on why nabbing a free copy is a Good Thing. There have been better Forzas, it must be said, but this still pretty much the finest racer you'll play on a next generation console.
As for Forza Horizon 2 - a demo for Playground's second open world festival racer will release on 16th September.