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Kyle Campbell (GLHF)

Over 70 new backward compatible games are coming to Xbox

Old-school gamers listen up: 76 original Xbox and Xbox 360 games are returning via backward compatibility. 

During the Xbox 20th Anniversary celebration, Microsoft announced that a significant update for its backward compatibility program. From first-person shooting classics like FEAR  to bizarre curiosities like Otogi: Myth of Demons, Xbox gamers are in for a tidal wave of nostalgia. Best of all, it’s all coming out today!

Here’s a complete list of Xbox backward compatible games coming today:

  • 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
  • Aces of the Galaxy
  • Advent Rising
  • Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom
  • Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Make the Grade
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Burning Earth
  • Bankshot Billiards 2
  • Beautiful Katamari
  • Binary Domain
  • Black College Football Xperience: Doug Williams Ed
  • Cloning Clyde
  • Conan
  • Darwinia+
  • Dead or Alive Ultimate
  • Dead or Alive 3
  • Dead or Alive 4
  • Death by Cube
  • Disney’s Chicken Little
  • Disney Universe
  • Elements of Destruction
  • FEAR
  • FEAR 2: Project Origin
  • FEAR 3
  • FEAR Files
  • The First Templar
  • Gladius
  • Gunvalkyrie
  • Islands of Wakfu
  • Lego: The Lord of the Rings
  • Max Payne
  • Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
  • Max Payne 3
  • Mini Ninjas
  • Mortal Kombat
  • Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
  • MX vs. ATV Alive
  • MX vs. ATV Untamed
  • Nier
  • Novadrome
  • Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee
  • Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
  • Otogi: Myth of Demons
  • Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
  • The Outfit
  • Outpost Kaloki X
  • Quake Arena Arcade
  • RAW: Realms of Ancient War
  • Red Dead Revolver
  • Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
  • Ridge Racer 6
  • Rio
  • Risen
  • Risen 2: Dark Waters
  • Rock of Ages
  • Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
  • Scramble
  • Screwjumper!
  • Skate 2
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Underpants Slam
  • SpongeBob: Truth or Square
  • Star Wars: Starfighter: Special Edition
  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  • Star Wars: Jedi Knight II – Jedi Outcast
  • Switchball
  • Thrillville
  • Thrillville: Off the Rails
  • Time Pilot
  • TimeSplitters 2
  • TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
  • Toy Story Mania
  • Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment
  • Viva Piñata: Party Animals
  • Warlords

Anyone with an Xbox One X or Xbox Series X will be able to play all of the games mentioned above with new visual enhancements like 4K support. Similarly, titles such as FEARBinary Domain  and Nier  will see a framerate boost up to 60 FPS. Games like Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout: New Vegas, Alan Wake and several more.

If you happen to be part of the xCloud beta, framerate boosts are coming for Fallout 76Fallout 4  and The Evil Within 

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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