In a movie that's not particularly surprising, Sony has announced that it's going to do everything it can to fix the backwards compatibility issues with the PlayStation 3. As reported yesterday, some PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games simply weren't running or, if they were, weren't running very well (missing audio, stalling at menus, etc).
Here's hoping it's all sorted by the time we manage to get out hands on the long-awaited console.
In a surprising move recently, Capcom split from their agreement with THQ to distribute their titles in Australia. The news came with the announcement from Activision Inc, that an agreement was signed giving Activision exclusive rights to the distribution of Capcom titles to the Australian and New Zealand market. Activision’s John Watts, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Asia/Pacific Region, had the following to say:
We are delighted to be working with one of the most admired…
Sadly, it seems as if the Sony PlayStation 3 won't be fully backwards compatible. As reported in The Age today:
...the PS3 might not play background music to the popular "Tekken 5" combat game, and some scenes from the "Gran Turismo" racing game might freeze, according to Sony. The game "Suikoden III" can't read data from a first-generation PlayStation, while a virtual gun in one of the "Biohazard" games won't fire properly.
Some older games won't run on the PS3 at all...
We can only hope that…
So what was it like working on the first mobile MMO?
Visser: Working on our mobile MMO was interesting in many ways. Firstly, it started out as a multiplayer demo for mobile - much like a Warcraft 3 Hero Arena or Gladiator map. Basically a death match kind of thing. Some people had told us it was ambitious or impossible, so we felt compelled to prove otherwise. Initially, the results were good, and it all seemed to work. Then we started testing different phones on different networks and that's…
Australia/UK's The Creative Assembly, well known for their 'Total War' historical strategy games, will be having their latest addition to the series, Medieval II: Total War, available to be purchased and downloaded directly to your PC via Steam. Available on the 15th of November (Tomorrow!), the game is already available for pre-loading in preparation for the official release.
The Australian Gamespot has released the local charts of the most popular games purchased from the 30th of October to the 5th of November. The data was supplied by Gfk Australia, and indicates what Aussie gamers have been purchasing in multiple platform categories and price categories. What full-priced games have we been purchasing over the week? Well, Krome’s very own The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning for the PS2 took the number 5 top selling position, and New Zealand’s…
If you've visited IGN in the past few days, you might've noticed that you get redirected to a brand new Australian version. Headed by Bennett Ring, who's been involved with magazines such as Atomic and PC PowerPlay, IGN.au will bring us not only all the content from the US version, but some exclusive local goodies too.
IR Gurus, a developer based in Melbourne, has been working on an aerial combat title called Heatseeker for the Nintendo Wii, Playstation 2 and the PSP. The publisher for the game, Codemasters, published a press release detailing a unique aspect to this action-oriented game, called the ‘Impact Cam’. The press release is as follows:
Explosions are good. However, watching state-of-the-art, military machines explode into blazing fireballs of fuel and molten metal in cinematic…
The Australian games industry lacks the programmers it needs, according to Evelyn Richardson, CEO of the Games Developer Association of Australia.
Ben Palmer, Executive Producer at IR Gurus, agrees, telling radio station 3RRR that:
"Programmers are the one we are desperately short of, there is a global drought of Programmers. We are hiring from all over the globe, but so is everybody else."
