During Microsoft press event, Microsoft stunned the gaming community and announced that the Xbox One is now backwards compatible. Preview members will gain the feature today with everyone else receiving it later this year. The company revealed that a number of Xbox 360 games would be available to download on Xbox One starting today. Hundreds of Xbox 360 titles will be added every month. As of now, 21 Xbox 360 games are available on Xbox One including the beloved Mass Effect.
You can take a list of titles currently available below.
• A Kingdom for Keflings
• A World of Keflings
• Alien Hominid
• Banjo Kazooie: Nuts n Bolts
• Banjo-Kazooie
• Banjo-Tooie
• BattleBlock Theater
• Defense Grid
• 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 Piñata
• Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise
The digital titles that you own and are part of the Back Compat game catalog will automatically show up in the Ready to Install section on your Xbox One. For disc-based games that are a part of the Back Compat game catalog, simply insert the disc and the console will begin downloading the game to your hard drive. After the game has finished downloading, you will still need to keep the game disc in the drive to play.
Source: Microsoft
Asher Madan is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 182 articles to ICXM in 2015, focused on Windows and PC, and Xbox news: joined Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017 covering Xbox news, hardware, and reviews.