UPDATED 10:21 EDT / NOVEMBER 09 2015

NEWS

First Xbox One backwards compatibility list includes 104 games

Xbox fans rejoiced at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) when the console maker announced that it would be adding backwards compatibility support to the Xbox One, allowing players to bring some of their favorite Xbox 360 games to the next-gen system without having to buy them all over again.

The new backwards compatibility update will finally be arriving on November 12, but there will only be a limited number games supported in the beginning. Today, Xbox revealed the first 104 games to get compatibility support, including (via Xbox.com):

A Kingdom for Keflings Lode Runner™
A World of Keflings LUMINES LIVE!
Alien Hominid HD Mass Effect™
Assassin’s Creed II Metal Slug 3
Asteroids & Deluxe Metal Slug XX
Banjo Kazooie®: Nuts & Bolts Might & Magic Clash of Heroes™
Banjo-Kazooie® Mirror’s Edge™
Banjo-Tooie® Missile Command
BattleBlock Theater Monday Night Combat
Bejeweled 2 Monkey Island: Special Edition
Bellator: MMA Onslaught Monkey Island 2: Special Edition
Beyond Good & Evil HD Ms. Splosion Man™
Blood of the Werewolf Mutant Blobs Attack!!!
BloodRayne: Betrayal N+
Borderlands NBA JAM: On Fire Edition
Call of Juarez® Gunslinger NiGHTS into dreams…
Castle Crashers Operation Flashpoint™: Dragon Rising
CastleStorm Pac-Man: Championship Edition™
Centipede & Millipede Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX+
Condemned: Criminal Origins Perfect Dark
Crazy Taxi™ Perfect Dark Zero
Deadliest Warrior: Legends Phantom Breaker:Battle Grounds
Defense Grid: The Awakening Pinball FX™
DiRT 3 Plants vs. Zombies
DiRT Showdown Prince of Persia
Discs of Tron Putty Squad
Doom Rayman 3 HD
Doom II R-Type Dimensions™
Dungeon Siege III Sacred Citadel
Earthworm Jim HD Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co.
Fable II Sega Vintage Collection: Golden Axe
Fallout 3 Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World
Feeding Frenzy Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage
Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown Shadow Complex
Gears of War Sonic CD
Gears of War 2 Sonic The Hedgehog
Gears of War 3 Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Gears of War: Judgment Sonic The Hedgehog 3
Golden Axe™ Super Meat Boy
Halo: Spartan Assault Supreme Commander 2
Hardwood Backgammon® Tom Clancy’s RainbowSix Vegas
Hardwood Hearts® Tom Clancy’s RainbowSix Vegas 2
Hardwood Spades® South Park: The Stick of Truth™
Heavy Weapon Torchlight
Hexic HD Toy Soldiers
Ikaruga Toy Soldiers: Cold War
Jetpac Refuelled Tron: Evolution
Joy Ride Turbo Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon
Just Cause 2 Viva Piñata
Kameo™: Elements of Power Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game Wolfenstein 3D
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga Zuma

Xbox also gave a disclaimer saying that “games and availability are subject to change,” which sounds a lot like region locking could be a potential issue for some of the games offered.

If you do not see some of your favorite Xbox 360 games listed, do not worry too much. Xbox plans on adding hundreds of other games in the coming months, and it assures users that “fans can submit what titles they’d like to see added via Xbox Feedback, and Xbox will work with game publishers to continue to release new titles regularly.”

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