Ninja Gaiden 3, Friday the 13th headline October's Xbox Games With Gold

Xbox Live Gold subscribers teetering on the edge of their seats in anticipation of October's Xbox Games With Gold may finally loosen their glutes; Microsoft has now revealed all, with the likes of Friday the 13th and Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge due in the coming weeks.

Before either of those, however, is Tembo the Badass Elephant for Xbox One, available as part of Games With Gold from 1st-31st October. Eurogamer was initially impressed with this chirpy little platformer - the work of Pokemon developer Game Freak - when it reviewed it back in 2015. However, an excess of familiarity and repetition ultimately brought it down.

"Tembo is at his best in the first few hours, when that eye-catching cartoon style is still fresh and you're free to wallow in his more destructive tendencies," wrote Dan Whitehead, "It would be inaccurate to say the game gets worse the further you get, but it does start to lose its lustre."

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