Microsoft celebrating one year of Xbox One with giveaways
Win Xbox One bundles, games, and other goodies.
Xbox One is celebrating its one year anniversary this Saturday, November 22, and to thank fans, Microsoft is giving Xbox One users several digital gifts, as well as potential bigger gifts.
First, if you’re in one of Xbox One’s original 13 markets and have opted in to receiving Xbox Marketing e-mails, you’ll receive a personalized e-mail detailing what you’ve accomplished since Xbox One launched last November. Some of the community achievements made on the platform in its first year include:
- Overall, the total community Gamerscore earned on Xbox One is more than 11 billion
- Fans spent more than 2 billion hours playing games on Xbox One
- The top four most popular achievements unlocked include:
- Forza Motorsport 5: “Welcome to Forza Motorsport”
- Titanfall: “Build Yourself”
- Destiny: “Ship Rite”
- Call of Duty: Ghosts: “Spatial Awareness”
Several gifts will also be available to fans. Beginning Friday, everyone who purchased the console before November 11 will get:
- A Year One Gamer Picture
- New Xbox One backgrounds: A special Year One background as well as an exclusive Day One background for those who unlocked the Day One achievement
- A Year One background image for use on Twitter, your desktop, etc.
- A free rental of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (for a limited time)
- A free rental of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods movie and a sampler pack of Dragon Ball Z TV episodes (for a limited time, available in the U.S. and Canada only)
Additionally, fans will be selected at random to receive a special gift. The full list of possible gifts include:
- Xbox One Limited Edition Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Bundle (U.S. only)
- Xbox One Special Edition Sunset Overdrive Bundle (U.S. only)
- One month membership for Xbox One-exclusive EA Access service
- Tiger Shark cash card for Grand Theft Auto V, worth $200,000 in-game GTA Online dollars
- Forza gift pack with Forza RallyCross hat, Lamborghini Huracán 1/24 scale replica, and Xbox One Controller (launch team edition) signed by Tanner Foust, host of Top Gear America, Global RallyCross champion and professional stunt driver (U.S. only)
- Forza Horizon 2 Limited Edition Casio G-Shock Men’s Black Multi-Function Digital Sports Watch (U.S. only)
- Grand Theft Auto V gift pack with the Los Santos Sheriff Trucker cap, Michael, Franklin and Trevor Posters, and a Grand Theft Auto V sticker pack (U.S. only)
- Xbox Live Gold 12-month membership digital code
- Killer Instinct Season 1 Combo Breaker Pack, the retail version of Killer Instinct Xbox One’s first season and includes all eight season one characters: Jago, Sabrewulf, Glacius, Thunder, Sadira, Orchid, and Spinal. Also includes Fulgore DLC character.
- Special limited edition Nissan 370Z, featuring a custom Casio livery for Forza Horizon 2
- Air Vehicle shortcut for Battlefield 4 for immediate access to all available unlocks for helicopters and jets available in the main Battlefield 4 game
- Arno’s French Rapier for Assassin’s Creed Unity to improve your combat skills
- 75 Platinum in Warframe
- Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare Costume Pack for Peggle 2
- Epic Quest Table in Pinball FX2
- Dance Central Spotlight (full game token)
- Project Spark Premium – 15 days: Grants 2x gain of Spark XP, credits, and champion XP, as well as the ability to purchase new token-only content for earned in-game credits
Thanks, Xbox Wire.