08-02-2016 16:56 via wired.co.uk

Why Red Dead Redemption was so briefly available for Xbox One

Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption -- a brutal western tale of vengeance and obsession, and one of the most popular open world games of the last decade -- is coming to Xbox One's backwards compatibility scheme. The only hitch? Microsoft didn't want anyone to know yet.
The Xbox 360 version of the 2010 action epic was briefly playable on Xbox One over the weekend, with players reporting that it ran flawlessly through the emulated system. However, access to the game was remove
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