Partner Development Lead says plans are afoot, "but we're not done thinking them through yet".
The topic of running Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One has been banded around since long before the Xbox One hit the shelves, and though Microsoft's official line has long been to keep hold of your Xbox 360 comments made this week seem to indicate that some form of backwards compatibility may eventually arrive on the system.
Showering you with our regular collection of weekly links.
We're into April already? Why, yes - the days are getting longer, E3 draws ever closer and the weather is... well, for those of us in the UK the British weather remains as unpredictable as ever.
"We feel like we're making something people will be playing for a long time to come.".
Evolve naturally invites comparisons with the development team Turtle Rock's previous title Left 4 Dead - which had an impressive raft of content. But like the forthcoming shooter's Goliath creature, the developer is promising to make their new monster grow even bigger.
Eidos Montreal posts job listing for "Online Programmer" for Deus Ex Universe project.
The slow burning mystery of the future of the Deus Ex series seems to be sprouting another chapter this weekend, as a job listing has been spotted on the website of developers Eidos Montreal calling out for an Online Programmer. Could this lean towards the next Deus Ex having online multiplayer?
Rumours of giant Fonz unconfirmed and made up by TotalXbox.com writer.
Battlefield 4 may have been released all the way back in October, but it turns out the game has been hiding a rather large easter egg in its waters. Rather literally in fact, as this week the BF community rallied around to uncover that a Megalodon - or as another way to put it: a giant shark.
Bigby's investigation continues on 9th April.
Episodes of The Wolf Among Us appear to be like buses. You wait ages for one, then they all come at once. OK, maybe that's not quite accurate, but it's good to see the schedule return to somewhat normality after the lengthy delay for the previous episode as Episode 3: A Crooked Mile will be arriving next week.
Exploit fixed by Microsoft, rewarding Kristoffer Von Hassel with 4 games, $50 and a year's free Xbox Live.
Definitely file this one under the big "whoops" column, as news has come to light this week of a five-year-old from San Francisco who managed to access his father's Xbox account by inadvertently exposing a vulnerability when attempting to log in on the Xbox One.
"We hear what fans say, they have great ideas and we should use that as an input as to how we build our product.".
The news that Phil Spencer was to become the new head of Xbox at Microsoft was met rather warmly last week. Now the man has given one of his first interviews on his plans for the Xbox division going forward in the form of a new video chat with Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb.
Beta will only appear on Xbox One, PS4 and PC, will require Gold subscription.
Are you planning to pick up a copy of Wolfenstein: the New Order next month? Though that game is shaping up well, it's a fair bet that many of you may have had your interest further raised by the prospect of getting into the Doom 4 beta? Well you might want to listen up, as a few more details have come to light.
"The game looks great, sounds great, and above all it plays great.".
Bluepoint Games has finally spoken out about the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall, due on shelves worldwide in a matter of days. According to senior producer Daryl Allison, the last gen version of Respawn's Xbox One hit will run at faster than 30 seconds a second, and will offer exactly the same maps, weapons, Titan classes, Burn cards and modes.
"Luckily, on Xbox One, that's not an issue.".
Drum roll please: the Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft has surpassed 12 million sales. Mojang's Daniel Kaplan has been chatting to the Xbox NewsWire about this momentous achievement - among other things, there's an explanation as to why we'll (probably) never get bigger Minecraft worlds via title update on last gen consoles.
Would cost $30 million, might not have RTS elements.
Somebody's been asking about Brutal Legend 2 again. Speaking to Edge, Double Fine boss Tim Schafer took a moment to discuss possibilities for a sequel to 2009's least expected strategy game. It's unlikely to ever happen, however - the project would cost $30 million.
30+ game types prototyped, of which six made it into the final game.
Rare tried out dozens of now-abandoned features for Kinect Sports Rivals, according to studio development director Danny Isaac, including some novel ideas for Xbox SmartGlass. Speaking to OXM at a preview event, Isaac described how sports that make sense "on paper" don't always translate well to the real world. Step forward Exhibit A: invisible horse-riding.
DMC developer looking "very closely" at the ID@Xbox program.
Xbox One is "impressive" but has yet to be fully exploited, DMC: Devil May Cry developer Ninja Theory has told OXM. Speaking as part of a soon-to-be published interview on the studio's current and future activities, product manager Dominic Matthews expressed excitement for SmartGlass, Game DVR and Kinect voice control in particular, but suggested that current games don't take full advantage of these features.
Microsoft apologises to those affected on Titanfall launch day.
Were you caught in the teeth of technical troubles on Titanfall launch day? You could stand to receive seven days of free Xbox Gold. Microsoft has sent out Xbox Live messages on the subject to a number of users, including OXM Twitter follower JoelPepper1.
See the former First Enchanter of Orlais in action.
BioWare has released a new in-engine shot of Dragon Age: Inquisition, revealing the Exalted Plains - a bleak but undeniably attractive region. Further inspection of the developer's social media channels reveals images of other regions and Vivienne, a new character and party member. Have a look.
Still waiting on actual screenshots and video.
Have you seen Titanfall? On Xbox 360, that is. The last gen version of the game has proven conspicuously inconspicuous, with not so much as a single screenshot or video doing the rounds at the time of writing - learned sages speculate that Microsoft has asked EA to hold back coverage, to boost sales of the Xbox One version.
PC demo demonstrates potential benefits for the console.
We've all heard the theory by now; the elusive power of the cloud on the Xbox One can enable developers to offload processing for various smaller tasks to remote servers, allowing the actual console's hardware to concentrate on bigger chores like rendering a game's environment. That's the theory, but how much of a difference does it actually make?
Zak Penn will direct the doco in search for old games.
The first show in a series of original TV programs being made for Xbox is closer to completion. Xbox Entertainment Studios and Lightbox have been given the go-ahead to excavate a landfill site containing a substantial number of Atari 2600 cartridges from a desert in New Mexico.
