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By Gino D. This latest rumor comes from a French video game publisher who supposedly let French website JV247 in on the secret. According to them, PS2 backwards compatibility could still eventually come as an update, and if it so happens, it's going to be because Sony would start offering PS2 games o...

By Mister Slimm No known issues TitleProduct CodeWidescreenSystem Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsSLES 51192 2.52 Sly RaccoonSCES 50917 2.52 Posted in Backwards Compatibility, Games, PlayStation, PS2, PS3       You can access the full list using the 360 PS3 BC link at the top of the page. Key...

By Mister Slimm Controller stops functioning inside the game after a certain time after a certain point in the first, non-training, level. PS button and menu still work.SLES 539562.50        A small update regarding a couple of games I had not listed before and one which stops working a short period into th...

According to the SingStar development team, SingStar track compatibility across PS2 and PS3 is enabled via the Disc Swap feature. “The feature has previously been available on SingStar games for both PlayStation 2 and PLAYSTATION 3, but for the first time owners of SingStar for PS3 will...

By Rajiv Ashrafi Posting on the PlayStation Blog, SCE PR director Michael Shorrock revealed that Sony has brokered an arrangement between the developers of Rock Band, Guitar Hero and Rock Revolution to ensure instrument interoperability on the PS3. “We have been working closely with Neversoft and Act...

By Mister Slimm Game doesn’t run in widescreen and has the image squished into a 4:3 area in the middle of the display. Opening movie has occasional sound glitches. Frame-rate occasionally stutters. Heat-haze effects are incorrectly rendered on top of everything else including the HUD. I also wonder what...

By Michael Shorrock For the most part, this means that the titles with musical peripherals will work with the other’s software. A few specific examples include: Guitar Hero: World Tour’s guitars and drums will work with Rock Band 2 and Konami’s Rock Revolution software.

By Michael McWhertor For those of you wondering (and not already discussing the news in the Kotaku comments section!), yes the PlayStation 3 included in the Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle announced earlier today will play select PlayStation 2 games via hardware and software emulation. SCEA PR manager Al De Leon co...

By Michael McWhertor When asked by the mag if the now BC-less console kills any chance of offering PS2 games via the PlayStation Store, as it does for original PlayStation games, Lempel said "We haven't talked about that yet, but there are possibilities through technology and software emulation to make that...

By misterslimm Sony have updated their backwards compatibility capability with the 2.10 firmware release and a number of games that were previously non-compatible have demonstrated progress. Some, notably the Jak and Daxter games I owned, ...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, BusinessThis week Sony announced there may be some slight backward compatibility issues on the European PS3. CVG followed-up and received word from Sony European PR, "Backwards compatibility is important but it does not define the...

By Darren Murph Filed under: GamingWe'll admit, we're feeling starting to feel for you folks in Europe, as not only do you now have to actually pay attention to where you're driving, but the PlayStation 3 you were planning on snagging exactly one month from today might be hamstringed right out of the box. A...

Eager to find out how the PS3 will play your old PS2 games? Here ya go. Here we take you on a tour of how the PS3 will make a new memory card, how the game loads up, and how you can reassign different SIXAXIS controllers to different "slots" on the virtual PS2.

By L.B. Jeffries What the...I just assumed it was backwards compatible automatically. That's like building a Death Star without the planet kill laser.