{"id":84687,"date":"2015-12-18T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84687"},"modified":"2015-12-18T11:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T09:18:43","slug":"microsoft-adds-halo-reach-portal-and-fable-iii-to-xbox-one-backwards-compatibility-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/84687-microsoft-adds-halo-reach-portal-and-fable-iii-to-xbox-one-backwards-compatibility-list","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft adds Halo: Reach, Portal and Fable III to Xbox One backwards compatibility list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next batch of Xbox 360 games made available for the Xbox One though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-ZA\/xbox-one\/backward-compatibility\" target=\"_blank\">backwards compatibility<\/a> have been announced by good ol\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/majornelson.com\/blog\/xbox-one-backward-compatibility\/\" target=\"_blank\">Major Nelson<\/a>, and there are some good ones.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what to expect:<\/p>\n<p><em>Braid<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Arcade<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Dues Ex: Human Revolution<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Games On Demand<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Doritos Crash Course<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Arcade<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Fable III<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Games On Demand<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Halo: Reach<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Games On Demand<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Hydro Thunder<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Arcade<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Iron Brigade<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Arcade\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Kane &amp; Lynch 2<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Games On Demand<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Motocross Madness<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Arcade<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>MS. PAC-MAN<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Arcade<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Peggle<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Arcade<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Portal: Still Alive<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Arcade\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Spelunky<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Arcade<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8216;Splosion Man<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Arcade<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Ticket to Ride<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Arcade<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Zuma\u2019s Revenge!<\/em> \u2013 <strong>Arcade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While a number of these titles are neither here nor there, like <em>Zuma\u2019s Revenge<\/em> and <em>Doritos Crash Course<\/em>, the addition of <em>Portal<\/em>, <em>Halo: Reach<\/em>, <em>Deus Ex: Human Revolution<\/em>, <em>Spelunky<\/em> and a few others is great news; they\u2019re great games.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s hoping that, <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/83497-fallout-3-performs-better-on-xbox-one-backwards-compatibility.html\" target=\"_blank\">like with <em>Fallout 3<\/em><\/a>, <em>Fable III<\/em> runs better than it does on the Xbox 360 \u2013 though it\u2019s still a pretty frustrating game anyway.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In related news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/84435-windows-7-and-8-1-now-support-the-xbox-one-wireless-controller.html\">Windows 7 and 8.1 now support the Xbox One Wireless Controller<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/84013-mtns-r11-000-plus-xbox-one-deal.html\">MTN\u2019s R11 000 plus Xbox One deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/80319-xbox-one-may-support-original-xbox-through-backwards-compatibility.html\">Xbox One may support original Xbox through backwards compatibility<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next batch of Xbox 360 games made available for the Xbox One though backwards compatibility have been announced by good ol\u2019 Major Nelson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":84689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8834,55,10065],"class_list":["post-84687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-backwards-compatibility","tag-halo-reach","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}