Xbox One Backward Compatibility Program list news: list now includes 'Dead Space Ignition' and 'Escape Dead Island'

Microsoft is on a roll in expanding the list of games for the Xbox One Backward Compatibility Program. This week, they added two more games, namely "Dead Space Ignition" and "Escape Dead Island."

Xbox Live head Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb once again took to Twitter to make the announcement. The games are the fifth and sixth titles added for this month. The series of announcements is still in relation to the programs 1st anniversary.

"Dead Space Ignition" is an action-puzzle game released in October of 2010 by Electronic Arts and was developed by Megatube and Sumo Digital meant for the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.

The game story of "Dead Space Ignition" features an engineer and playable character named Franco Delille. He and his partner, Sarah, needed to fix an elevator in the Sprawl, which is a space station in Titan, one of Saturn's moons. However, their adventure will start after they find out the wreck was initiated by an act of sabotage. Gamers will need to control Franco through solving puzzles.

On the other hand, with "dead" in its name too, "Escape Dead Island" is a horror action-survival video game released in 2014 developed by Fatshark and released by Deep Silver. Its third-person mechanics make use mainly of stealth, melee combat and gunplay.

Gamers will have to control an operative named Kilo Two through a zombie outbreak. In the game's story, Kilo Two takes directive from another character Xian Mei, whose voice can be heard through a radio, and gives the playable character a mission to infiltrate a facility that will turn out to be infiltrated by zombies.

Since November last year, Microsoft launched the Xbox One Backward Compatibility Program that will enable players to upload their saved game, gamerscore, achievements, and bought upgrades from Xbox 360 to newer consoles without extra cost.

Meanwhile, Microsoft head of engineer Mike Ybarra confirmed that the Backward Compatibility Program will definitely work on their upcoming console dubbed box Project Scorpio.