Tag: backwards compatibility

  • Owning THREE PS2s…?!

    It is certainly a fair question to ask why I would need to own three PS2s in the same house. What kind of setup could possibly require this? We certainly never intended to have three, but our logic for doing so may be sounder than even I originally thought. It started out with the original…

  • Online Consoles Follow-up

    As a follow-up to some material covered in episode seven of our podcast, here are a couple quick bits of information and reading: – At E3, Microsoft announced that they had one more title to bring over to “Xbox Originals”… and then it’s done. We can probably safely assume that no more software updates will…

  • More Activision Insanity

    At the risk of beating a dead horse, I just wanted to post up another bit of absolute insanity regarding Activision and their asinine decisions with the Guitar Hero games and DLC. According to this preview of Guitar Hero: Metallica by Destructoid, the game does not support any DLC, including the Death Magnetic album that…

  • They Just Don’t Get It (Let Me Play My Music!)

    IGN has put up an interview with Paul Gadbois, producer at Beedox, the company responsible for developing Guitar Hero Greatest Hits in conjunction with Activision. This “new” game is not really a “new” game; think of it as a compilation disc of songs from previous games. That sounds like a fantastic idea in theory, especially…

  • Nintendo’s 2008-2009 Updates

    Well, we’ve got a new Nintendo DS on the way (along with a few other things). There has already been a bunch of discussion about the whole thingie-ma-bob, despite the press event only happening within the last 24 hours (as of this writing, Nintendo has yet to hold their US press event). However, there are…

  • Conversation 002: Backwards Compatibility & The Top Ten Games We’ve Never Played

    I told you I’d get this done before Otakon! OK, so we’re leaving for the convention later today, but that’s still on time… That’s right, the second episode of our show is all up and ready for listening. We had an awesome time with this one, and I think that’s reflected in the content of…