

This is an opportunity for old veterans to relive those gaming days and a chance for newer players to experience gold. With the news of surprise additions to the Xbox Backward Compatibility catalog more than a year after its “final” batch of additions, Xbox Backward Compatibility lead Peggy Lo told The Verge, “While we continue to stay focused on preserving and enhancing the art form of games, we have reached the limit of our ability to bring new games to the catalog from the past due to licensing, legal, and technical constraints. The Backwards Compatible Program is a program where Xbox is going to make 70+ games from the past compatible on the current Xbox Consoles. This option is available to both digital and disc versions. 3, Binary Domain, and NIER.Įxisting backward compatible titles will also receive a frame rate boost, including the entire Gears of War series, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Dragon Age: Origins, Dead Space 2, Dead Space 3, Alan Wake, and Sonic Generations. Dead Space 2 and 3 are now backward-compatible, so now gamers can play them on the Xbox One. The first Dead Space has already been on there for over a year. Eleven titles will also receive a frame rate boost, including F.E.A.R., F.E.A.R. Dead Space 2 and 3 have been added to the Xbox One's backward compatibility library.

Rockstar’s Bully: Scholarship Edition gets slashed 50%, while the original Gears trilogy sees a massive 75% discount.Additionally, every backward compatible title added today will feature improved visual quality with auto high dynamic range on supported displays, and original Xbox games will experience a resolution increase on all Xbox Series and Xbox One consoles on supported displays (four times increase on Xbox Series X and Xbox One X, three times on Xbox Series S, and two times on Xbox One S and Xbox One). The Dead Space series has also seen a significant discount, on sale at 67% off. World at War, probably the last great WWII Call of Duty is also available for purchase at half price. Microsoft is holding a pretty massive Xbox 360 sale now, featuring games that are all available to be played on Xbox One via the console’s backwards compatibility program.Īmong the best deals are Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 3 and Black Ops at 50% off, while the recently-added Black Ops 2 gets a 60% discount, along a 50% discount for its season pass add-on. That’s how I imagine a television ad for this latest Xbox games sale would go.
