Microsoft reportedly testing 24-hour game trials on Xbox One

Xbox One owners may soon be able to try out games for an entire day. A Redditor taking part in Microsoft's preview program has posted an image revealing the so-far unannounced "Free Play Day with Gold" feature. As with most good things on Microsoft's console, the name suggests you'll need an Xbox Live Gold subscription to access 24-hour demos. It's hard to imagine that each and every forthcoming Xbox One title will be supported; that'd take an awful lot of generosity on the part of publishers.

But even if only a small crop of titles are offered, the opportunity to sample a game for a full day would be a great differentiator between the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. In the previous console generation, Sony offered hour-long trials to its...

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