Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is finally backwards compatible on Xbox One, and it's on sale too

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the longstanding crowd favorite for Xbox One backwards compatibility, is finally having its day. Xbox Live director of programming Larry Hryb revealed that the 2012 shooter will join the future-proofed library today.

If you don't already own it, you can buy it digitally for $19.99 / £15.99 if you're an Xbox Live Gold subscriber.

The original Black Ops came to Xbox One backwards compatibility just under a year ago in May 2016, though Black Ops 2 has been at the top of the official user voting chart since at least July 2015. Now that it's off the waiting list, the current favorite is Skyrim, which, er… probably isn't going to happen, since Bethesda presumably wants to keep selling more copies of Skyrim Special Edition.

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan
Former GamesRadar+ News Writer

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar+.