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Bought any Xbox 360 games digitally? They’ll be waiting for you in the Xbox One Store with backwards compatibility

At a meeting today detailing Xbox One updates, more information on Xbox 360 backwards compatibility was provided to Stevivor.

It was confirmed that any Xbox 360 titles you’ve purchased digitally will appear in the Xbox One Store on your console, waiting for you to redownload.

The 360 games you digitally own can be downloaded in exactly the same way that you can with Xbox One titles you’ve purchased digitally and don’t have installed.

As far as the tech itself, Microsoft confirmed the Xbox One is running an Xbox 360 software emulator. Xbox One functionality will be applied to 360 games, so you can snap apps while playing, take screenshots, record video and even stream using Twitch. The old Xbox 360 guide can also be brought up in-game buy hitting the Xbox One controller’s Menu and Options buttons together.

As far as purchasing new Xbox 360 content is concerned, you won’t be able to buy new content from the Xbox One. Instead, you can use an actual Xbox 360 console or go to Xbox.com.

Xbox One backwards compatibility, giving gamers the chance to play Xbox 360 games on their current-gen hardware, is available now to Preview Program members. It will be released to the general public for the holidays.

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Steve Wright

Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.