Microsoft's executive Peter Moore announced that twenty or so original Xbox games including DOOM 3 will be made 360-friendly in the next Backwards Compatibility update which will be released later this week.

"We're going to continue to get as close as we can to our stated target of every Xbox game being backwards compatible with the Xbox 360," states Moore in the Major Nelson Podcast. "There's a very talented team right here in the Redmond campus that are working on [backwards compatibility] and they'll continue to work on that, and more and more games we'll be announced over this calendar year and going forward."

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[i]---- News update:[/i] Microsoft's June BC update has been released! You may fetch it [url="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardscompatibility.htm#download"]from this page[/url]. Thanks to it, over two hundred original Xbox games are now backwards compatible with the the Xbox 360.

June backwards compat list: 4x4 EVO 2, Amped, Bad Boys 2, Big Mutha Truckers, DOOM 3, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Fatal Frame, FlatOut, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Intellivision Lives, LEGO Star Wars, Minority Report, MLB SlugFest 20-04, The Punisher, RalliSport Challenge, Silent Hill 4: The Room, Spawn Armageddon, Spider-Man, Star Wars Battlefront, State of Emergency, and Zapper. Additional Japanese-only titles: Bistro Cupid 1, Flight Academy, Othello Seminar, Igo Seminar, Shogi Seminar, and Mahjong Seminar.