In a highly anticipated development, the new Xbox 360 games have been made backwards-compatible for gamers that are having Xbox One consoles across the world. With this, the number of backwards compatible games now look set to cross the 350.

The latest games that joins Xbox One backwards compatibility fray are:

  • Rocket Knight: Originally released for Xbox 360 in 2010
  • Shadows of the Damned: Released originally in 2011

As the above games having become backwards-compatible, Xbox One players will now be able to access these titles within their libraries.

However, the Xbox One's backwards compatibility catalogue further grows with the addition of Alice: Madness Returns. Its arrival was publicized in a tweet from Microsoft's Major Nelson.

Alice: Madness Returns ($20; 5.41 GB) originally came out in 2011 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. It was developed by designer American McGee's Chinese studio Spicy Horse and later on published by Electronic Arts.

January has been a busy month for the Xbox One backwards compatibility library, as Microsoft has now updated with the 14 titles to the catalogue this month, according to Games Spot.

There are more than 300 Xbox 360 games playable on Xbox One via backwards compatibility. In a more recent news, Microsoft announced that players collectively spent 265 million hours playing Xbox 360 games on Xbox One in 2016.

Microsoft's next-gen Project Scorpio aka Xbox 2 is on the way for release this year. Nevertheless, the release date of the Microsoft Xbox Project Scorpio is unknown yet. It could be pushed further, according to a new report by Express suggests that quoted Xbox head-honcho Phil Spencer.

Xbox loyalists had earlier anticipated the Redmond-based company to officially launch and release the Xbox Scorpio next-gen gaming device during this year's E3 event to be held in the US in June. Currently, it seems that even Phil Spencer isn't sure as to when exactly the console would be made available for the gaming enthusiasts.
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