Call Of Duty: World At War Map Pack 3 Coming August

Activision is set to release their third World At War map pack in August to tie all you Call Of Duty fans over until Modern Warfare 2 is released November 10, 2009.

The Map pack will include three new maps Battery, Revolution, and Breach plus a new zombie map called Der Riese. This maybe the last map pack for World At War with Modern Warfare 2 around the corner but this looks like the best of the three map pack's released.

Alien Breed Evolution Coming To XBLA First Then PS3 And PC

While Team 17's upcoming Alien Breed renewal, Alien Breed Evolution, will be coming to XBLA, PSN and PC, VG247 has learned that the game will be arriving on XBLA a bit earlier than the other two. Team 17 boss Martyn Brown said the following.

“I think XBLA still leads PS3 in terms of user base and probably the amount of people buying the thing,” he told us when we asked why Team 17 chose 360 as the lead platform for release.

“Plus we have a relationship with Microsoft that’s pretty close - a first party publishing relationship,” he said.

“They showed a lot of faith in us early doors and that’s kind of kept going really. I think they’ve got the same kind of games on there: it’s the same kind of audience really.

“I’m not suggesting the PS3 is any less than that, but we just feel that’s the market for the game.

“It will come to PS3 and it will come to PC as well, but intially it’ll be Live Arcade,” concluded Brown.

Joker Makes PS3 Home

At a special preview event taking place yesterday Rocksteady's Sefton Hill confirmed that The Joker will only be playable on the PS3 version and said that due to a exclusivity deal with Sony he will not be playable on the Xbox 360 at anytime in the future.

He did have some good news for 360 fans though, confirming that the firm are working on new downloadable content for both Xbox 360 and PS3.

source: wonderwallweb

Battlefield 1943 Problems Since Coral Sea Was Unlocked

There seems to be a few problems at the time of posting this post that seemed to of surfaced after Coral Sea was unlocked a select amount of people have lost their ranks and awards EA and Dice are looking into the problems as you read this post.

Keep an eye on the OfficialBF1943 Twitter page for more details.

It will be announced on Monday who got the 43 millionth kill and will no doubt recieve a prize like the person who got the 43 millionth kill on the Xbox360 version, user James (jkasapi) from Peterborough, England. For his trouble, James wins a pair of official 1943 sunglasses, a 1943 t-shirt, and custom Battlefield sneakers!

Sony About To Make All PS3s Backwards Compatible?

In an effort to reduce PlayStation 3 production costs, Sony removed the console's Emotion Engine; the chipset which enables the system to play PlayStation 2 software. At first the company left the chipset in a few of its console SKUs, but has since discontinued all hardware variations with the capacity for backward compatibility. While certainly a smart business decision from a logistical standpoint, the move to remove the console's ability to play last generation titles left gamers with substantial PS2 game libraries out in the cold, but a recent patent filing by the company suggests that the feature could be making a comeback.

According to a report by Siliconera, Sony recently filed a patent for a new cell-based emotion engine emulator, which could be capable of processing PS2 code through the PS3's existing processors. The processes were loosely outlined in the patent filing, but in essence, Sony is developing a way to translate and store Emotion Engine processing data within the PS3. In other words, this means that Sony could theoretically bring backwards compatibility to all current and previous PS3 units with a simple firmware update, regardless of hardware configuration. The filing makes no specific mention of the technology's intended purpose or when or if it will be implemented in a PS3 update, however, it seems pretty safe to assume that Sony will eventually bring it to console. After all, a firmware-enabled emulator is an extremely cost effective way to add an invaluable feature to the device without major hardware revisions.

Maybe we will hear more about this at GDC 2009 next month at Sony's three hour press conference.

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