Xbox Series X and Xbox One gain 76 new backward-compatible games

Xbox Series Ten backward compatibility gets a huge boost with 76 new games

an image of max payne 3 one of the new backward-compatible games on Xbox Series X

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In commemoration of twenty years of Xbox, Microsoft unveiled a list of 76 new backwards compatible games from the original Xbox and Xbox 360 eras for the Xbox Series 10, Xbox Series S and Xbox Ane.

And 37 of these games will benefit from FPS Boost, where frame rates and functioning is improved without programmer intervention.

There are some big hitters in both lists. All of the Max Payne and FEAR games are playable on Xbox I and Series Ten/Due south for the get-go time, as are classics similar TimeSplitters 2, Cerise Expressionless Revolver and Manhunt. All of these volition benefit from Auto HDR, and original Xbox titles will get a 4x resolution heave on Series Ten and Xbox 1 X systems, a 3x bump on Series Due south and a 2x enhancement on One Southward and One consoles.

FPS Boost, meanwhile, will allow titles like Alan Wake, Sonic Generations, Oblivion and all of the Gears of War games to hit 60 frames per second.

But while the initiative should absolutely be applauded given there was no obligation for Microsoft to return to these one-time games, y'all do get the impression that some titles in the list were included simply because they worked rather than whatsoever cracking public clamoring for a revival. No boldness intended to Chicken Petty (Metacritic rating: 68%) or motion picture tie-in party game Rio (60%), but they're inappreciably Alpha Protocol, Blur or Silent Hill which all remain omitted.

Regardless, here is the full list of newly compatible games that you can put into your Xbox, hopefully the flagship console if y'all've been lucky with Xbox Series X restocks, without it throwing up an error:

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand	Nier
Aces of the Galaxy	Novadrome
Advent Rising	Oddworld: Munch'due south Oddysee
Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom	Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Team
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Make the Course	Otogi: Myth of Demons
Avatar: The Concluding Airbender - The Burning Earth	Otogi two: Immortal Warriors
Bankshot Billiards 2	The Outfit
Beautiful Katamari	Outpost Kaloki Ten
Binary Domain	Quake Arena Arcade
Black College Football game Xperience: Doug Williams Ed	RAW - Realms of Aboriginal War
Cloning Clyde	Red Expressionless Revolver
Conan	Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon Urban center
Darwinia+	Ridge Racer half-dozen
Dead or Alive Ultimate	Rio
Dead or Alive three	Risen
Expressionless or Alive 4	Risen 2: Dark Waters
Death by Cube	Rock of Ages
Disney Universe	Sacred ii: Fallen Angel
Disney's Chicken Lilliputian	Scramble
Elements of Destruction	Screwjumper!
Fear	Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Fearfulness 2: Project Origin	Skate two
FEAR 3	SpongeBob SquarePants Underpants Slam!
Fright Files	SpongeBob'due south Truth or Square
The First Templar	Star Wars Starfighter Special Edition
Gladius	Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith
Gunvalkyrie	Star Wars The Clone Wars
Islands of Wakfu	Star Wars Jedi Knight two: Jedi Outcast
Lego Lord of the Rings	Switchball
Manhunt	Thrillville
Max Payne	Thrillville: Off the Rails
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne	Time Pilot
Max Payne 3	TimeSplitters 2
Mini Ninjas	TimeSplitters: Time to come Perfect
Mortal Kombat	Toy Story Mania
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe	Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment
MX vs ATV Alive	Viva Pinata: Party Animals
MX vs ATV Untamed	Warlords

...and here are the games that now benefit from FPS Boost.

Alan Wake	Lightning Returns: Last Fantasy XIII
Assassin'southward Creed	Gears of State of war
Binary Domain	Gears of War 2
Blackness College Football game Xperience: Doug Williams Ed	Gears of War iii
Darksiders	Gears of War: Judgment
Dead Space ii	Gears of War: Ultimate Edition
Dead Space iii	Kameo: Elements of Power
Disney'south Chicken Little	Lego The Lord of the Rings
Dragon Age: Origins	Medal of Honor: Airborne
Dragon Age II	Mirror'south Border
The Elderberry Scrolls 4: Oblivion	Nier
F.Eastward.A.R.	Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon Urban center
F.Eastward.A.R. iii	Rock of Ages
Fable Ceremony	Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Fable III	Sonic Generations
Fallout 3	Sonic Unleashed
Fallout: New Vegas	Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Far Weep 3	Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment
Last Fantasy Thirteen-2

Phew. With the backwards compatible list now continuing at shut to 700 titles, is at that place any promise of more coming? Probably not: in the weblog mail service announcing the additions, this batch was referred to as the "latest and final" drop.

Then once more, the June 2019 additions were as well described equally "terminal," so maybe we can hold out a little hope for the 25th anniversary of Xbox in 2026.

Freelance correspondent Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in betwixt. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional mag besides. When not weighing upwards the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably find him tackling his e'er-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.