Major Nelson recently announced via Twitter that Halo Wars Xbox 360 title originally launched in 2009, is finally ready for backward compatibility on Xbox One, although playable starting today only by members of the program preview.

Despite the title to be released in 2009, there is still a strong community in the game and this probably influenced the choice of making it finally backwards compatible. Those who have the digital version of Halo Wars and are enrolled in the program preview for Xbox should already be able to install the game from the games and apps " ready to install ". However, those who possess the disk version had problems with installing the game and may have to wait a further update that system problems.