Microsoft confirmed the names of a few more Xbox 360 games that will soon be functional on Xbox One through the newer consoles backwards compatibility feature, but they also showed a reel that hinted at lots more. Lets enhance and see what we can see.

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The first one is unknowable.

After that, weve got:

Trials
Ghost Recon Future Soldier
Far Cry 3
Fallout 3
Fable 2
BioShock Infinite
Dynasty Warriors
Driver San Francisco
Disney Universe
Defense Grid
Dead Space
Dark Souls
Civilization Revolution
Child of Eden
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Cars
Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway
Borderlands
BioShock
Bayonetta
Battleblock Theater
Banjo Tooie
Tom Clancys Endwar
Assassins Creed II
Risen 2
Far Cry 2
Alien Hominid
Alan Wake
A World of Keflings
A Kingdom of Keflings
Risen
Unclear another Dead Space?
Unclear
Another Assassins Creed

Beyond that, its pretty tough to see whats what, though I toss it to you the hive mind to see if you can sort out whats in the back part of the reel. I see Assassins Creed Revelations and a Viva Piata, but beyond that Im not sure what weve got here.

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That final EX one is Shadow Complex.

Users of the Xbox One preview program can already play a number of Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One. Ive used it myself. Todays new Xbox One release, Rare Replay, is the first non-preview use of the feature, giving users access to nine 360 titles on the Xbox One:

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Beyond that, Bethesda has said that Fallout 3 will be supported, and Ubisoft and Square Enix showed in trailers today that Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2 as well as Just Cause 2 will all work with the feature, too. All of those publishers seem to be bundling those Xbox 360 games with their forthcoming respective Xbox One sequels.

There dont appear to be any technical hurdles to getting more games on the list, as long as those games dont require Kinect, which isnt part of this. The backwards compatibility feature in Xbox One basically is just the console pretending to be a 360, so as best we understand itand as Microsoft has explained itany 360 game can run on the Xbox One. Its simply a matter of publishers giving Microsoft the ok. We recently asked publishers if they were giving Microsoft the okay, and pretty much all of them gave us a no-comment. Today, Microsoft mentioned the following publishers as among the first supporting the program:

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The most conspicuous absence there is Activision, which is too bad given that the most-requested game for the entire program is an Activision game:

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Theres no indication of any of those three games being greenlit for backwards compatibility yet.

Microsoft did recently say that all four Xbox 360 Gears of War games will not only be supported but will be offered to all purchasers of this months remake of the first game. At Gamescom, the company also said that it would support back compatibility for the key games it published on 360 in some shape or form (remember, Microsoft published the first Mass Effect, and therefore isnt likely to be talking about the subsequent games in this first-party context):

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Weve asked Microsoft if they can send us a full list of games that will be supported.

Xbox One backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games will go live in November. Microsoft is promising support at launch for over 100 games and says the feature will be free to all users. Presumably itll help if you own the games on disc or digitally, though its not clear how this will work if you merely borrow a disc. The Xbox One downloads a copy of the game to your harddrive, but surely theyll check if you still have the copy by requiring you to keep the disc in? What we do know is that, yes, it works with your old save files. Its worked with all the games Ive used it for so far.

UPDATE - 2:25pm: While Id only tested the Xbox Ones backwards compatibility feature with games I owned digitally, multiple readers who also have tried it through the Xbox Ones preview program say that you do indeed have to keep your Xbox 360 disc in the whole time youre using the game on the Xbox One, even though the console is running a downloaded copy of the game. Thats clearly Microsofts way to make sure that people arent tricking the system. Seems fair. And if you own the game digitally, no disc needed, as Ive experienced.

UPDATE - 6:20pm: Microsoft has declined to say whether the games in the reel shown at Gamescom today are all confirmed for backwards compatibilitys official November launch. The image we shared in the briefing is representative of the rich and diverse selection of titles we could bring to the program in the future, a Microsoft rep told me over e-mail, pointing me to the shorter list of games that the Xbox One preview version of backwards compatibility now supports. We arent confirming anything beyond this list but look forward to sharing more as we get closer to launch. You, dear reader, will have to decide whether or not Microsoft chose games for that reel that they dont think they can actually deliver, which would be interesting considering that the reel stuck only to games from the publishers Microsoft then said were on board with the program.

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