Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Kicks Into Gear
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Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Kicks Into Gear

By December 17, 2015January 25th, 2016No Comments

Today there’s a bunch of backwards-compatible games being released for the Xbox One.  The Xbox backwards compatibility feature means that you can now play certain Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One.

Here’s the full list:

  • Braid
  • DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION
  • Doritos Crash Course
  • Fable III
  • Halo: Reach
  • Hydro Thunder
  • Iron Brigade
  • Kane & Lynch 2
  • Motocross Madness
  • MS.PAC-MAN
  • Peggle
  • Portal: Still Alive
  • Spelunky
  • Splosion Man
  • Ticket to Ride
  • Zuma’s Revenge!

Peggle, Braid, and Portal are some of our favorite games.

These games join the 104 Xbox 360 games that are already available on Xbox One. Polygon reports that Halo: Reach was one of the most popular requests, with 95,000 people voting for it to come to Xbox One.

Xbox Wire writes that the most popular 360 games are “Fallout 3, Gears of War 3, Just Cause 2, Assassin’s Creed II, and DiRT 3.”

Since the November 12 debut of backwards compatibility, people have clocked over 9 million hours playing Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One.

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