Xbox PC backward compatibility expands to Windows 11
Microsoft is expanding Xbox backward compatibility by bringing four original Xbox titles—Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, and Fuzion Frenzy—to PC with PC-specific enhancements and eventual achievement support, available for purchase or included via Xbox Game Pass. The rollout emphasizes preservation and cross-platform play, with Windows 11 and modern hardware required for best performance and ongoing expansion to additional titles and features.
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About Blinx: The Time Sweeper
Blinx: The Time Sweeper is a 2002 platform game developed by Artoon in partnership with Microsoft Game Studios Japan and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox. Advertised as "The World's First 4-D Action Game", the game focuses on the titular character, an anthropomorphic cat called Blinx, who is on a mission to prevent the end of World B1Q64 and rescue its princess from the evil Tom-Tom Gang. Blinx is outfitted with the TS-1000 Vacuum Cleaner, with which he can slow, speed up, record, reverse, and stop time. Blinx was positioned by the gaming press as a mascot character for Microsoft to use to compete against Nintendo's Mario, Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sony's Crash Bandicoot, though the character was never used as such officially by Microsoft.
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