Backwards compatibility for the Xbox One was revealed to extremely positive reception at E3 earlier this year. The feature has been in beta testing for the last several months thanks to the Xbox Preview program, but now it will be released alongside a dashboard update on November 12th 2015. As to what games will be compatible on the day of launch, a tweet from Xbox head Phil Spencer revealed that the full list of games will be announced on November 9th, just three days before the update’s release.
Some games are already available to play, provided that you own specific games such as Gears of War Ultimate Edition or Rare Replay. This condition will be lifted once the update has gone live next week. A list of currently confirmed games can be found below:
- A Kingdom of Keflings
- A World of Keflings
- Alien Hominid
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
- Banjo-Tooie
- BattleBlock Theater
- Defense Grid: The Awakening
- Geometry Wars: Evolved
- Hexic HD
- Jetpac Refuelled
- Kameo
- Mass Effect
- Perfect Dark
- Perfect Dark Zero
- Small Arms
- Super Meat Boy
- Toy Soldiers
- Toy Soldiers Cold War
- Viva Pinata
- Viva Pinata Trouble in Paradise
- Zuma
In case you want to relive the moment when the feature was announced, , here is the video of the occasion from E3 2015.
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