Hit the jump for not one, but two galleries showcasing the graphical stylings of both versions of the game. Long live the PlayStation 2!

DYNASTY WARRIORS®6 COMING TO PLAYSTATION®2 AND WINDOWS-BASED PC ON NOVEMBER 18, 2008

KOEI to introduce its Tactical Action mega-hit to more platforms along with never-before-seen content exclusive to the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system

Burlingame, CA –- August 15, 2008 - KOEI, recognized worldwide as the premier brand of strategy and action games, today announced that the company is bringing its mega-hit Tactical Action game, DYNASTY WARRIORS®6 to PlayStation 2 and to Windows-based PC.

DYNASTY WARRIORS 6 will debut on PlayStation 2 as a massive two-disc collection action-packed with the full cast of playable characters and pulse-pounding scenarios of the original release, plus platform-exclusive content including never-before-seen “Musou” mode stories, incredible new weapons, five additional stages and 10 new scenarios.

DYNASTY WARRIORS 6 for PlayStation 2 will ship to retailers starting November 18, 2008, while the version for Windows-based PC will be available simultaneously and exclusively through digital download. The game is already in stores for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

About DYNASTY WARRIORS 6
Selling over 18 million units combined worldwide, KOEI’s award-winning DYNASTY WARRIORS series and SAMURAI WARRIORS series of Tactical Action games have become a global phenomenon.

Based on the epic novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the genre-defining DYNASTY WARRIORS 6 depicts the massive battles ignited by the fall of the Han Dynasty when three rebellious states moved to overthrow the Emperor of China.

DYNASTY WARRIORS 6 delivers the unparalleled exhilaration of single-handedly destroying thousands of soldiers on massive fields of combat. Utilizing spectacular fighting techniques motion-captured from some of today’s leading stuntmen and stuntwomen in Asia, DYNASTY WARRIORS 6 immerses gamers in a truly cinematic kung-fu action adventure. The game’s lightning-fast fighting, intuitive combat system and breathtaking environments create an unparalleled gaming experience that pushes the limits of Tactical Action.

Created by KOEI’s Omega Force team, DYNASTY WARRIORS 6 is rated “T” (Teen – Violence) by the ESRB. DYNASTY WARRIORS 6 is for 1 to 2 players. Press can find assets (watermark-free) at gamespress.com. For additional information, visit www.koei.com/dw6.

DYNASTY WARRIORS 6 for Windows-based PC System Requirements
Minimum: Pentium® 4 1.6GHz, Windows XP/Vista, 512MB, 5GB or more of free space, 640×480 High Color enabled, 3D Accelerator with Hardware T&L and Pixel Shading supporting 128MB or more of VRAM, DirectX 9.0c+, DirectX 9.0c+ compliant, 16-bit stereo with 44KHz playback supported by Windows XP/Vista, keyboard

Recommended: Intel® Core™2Duo 2.4GHz, Windows XP/Vista, 512MB, 5GB or more of free space, 1280×720 True Color enabled, 16:9, 3D Accelerator with Hardware T&L and Pixel Shading supporting 128MB or more of VRAM, DirectX 9.0c+, DirectX 9.0c+, DirectX 9.0c+ compliant, 16-bit stereo with 44KHz playback supported by Windows XP/Vista, DirectX 9.0 compatible, 12-button gamepad

The following video cards have been tested and found compatible with the product.
ATI Radeon™: X1650, X1950, HD 2600, HD 3650
NVIDIA GeForce™: 7600, 7900, 8500, 8600, 9600

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 possibles."

Lempell chose not to talk about "specific plans at this point" but that doesn't mean we can't hope. And pray. And start online petitions.

The full interview, which is actually with Sony Computer Entertainment SVP of marketing Peter Dille—he says backward compatibility is "important to us"—is in the newest issue of EGM, which is in subscriber hands now. We hope that 1UP will publish the interview online, in-full, at some point soon.

Rumors of a 120GB model have been spread to retail employees, but this conflicts with reports from other Best Buy moles who say that internal communications indicate only one model—the 40GB barebones edition—will be stocked after January 28th.

PS3 Fanboy has visual evidence of the notice to employees about the 80GB discontinuation, further proof that backwards compatibility may soon be a thing of the past. We've been bugging Sony about the situation all day, but have yet to receive anything other than a paraphrased "hold tight" about the rumors.

Update: It appears as though it's finally out. The 80GB model isn't showing on Best Buy's site.

Best Buy discontinuing 80GB PS3 [PS3 Fanboy]

November 2007 Back Compat titles added:

2006 Fifa World Cup Germany
25 to Life
AMF Bowling 2004
Apex
Arena Football
Armed and Dangerous
Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance
Batman Rise of Sin Tzu
Bionicle
Blade II
Blinx: The Timesweeper
Blitz The League
Blood Omen 2
Blowout
Breakdown
Burnout 2: Point of Impact
Cabelas Dangerous Hunts 2
Championship Manager 2006
Colin Mcrae Rally 2005
Crime Life: Gang Wars
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
Dungeons& Dragons Heroes
ESPN College Hoops 2k5
ESPN NFL 2k5
Fantastic 4
FIFA 06 Soccer
Fight Night: Round 3
Final Fight: Streetwise
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone
Freedom Fighters
Freestyle Street Soccer
Future Tactics: The Uprising
Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee
Godzilla Save the Earth
Goldeneye Rogue Agent
Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball Max'd
High Heat MLB 2004
Hunter: The Reckoning
Indiana Jones And The Emperors Tomb
MLB Slugfest Loaded
MVP Baseball 2003
MVP Baseball 2004
MVP Baseball 2005
Nascar Thunder 2002
Nascar Thunder 2003
NBA 2k3
NBA Ballers
NBA Inside Drive 2002
NBA Street V3
NCAA College Basketball 2k3
NCAA March Madness 2005
NCAA March Madness 2006
NFL 2k2
NFL 2k3
NHL 2005
NHL 2K3
NHL Hitz Pro
Nightcaster: Defeat The Darkness
NTRA Breeders Cup: World Thoroughbred Championships
Playboy The Mansion
RLH Hunt or be Hunted
Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown
Rocky
Rugby 2006
Shattered Union
Shrek Super Party
Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
Starsky & Hutch
Syberia II
Techmo Classic Arcade
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Test Drive
The Bard's Tale
The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
The Guy Game
The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age
Thousand Land
Thrillville
Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers
Turok: Evolution
Van Helsing
WarPath
Worms 3D
Zathura

It may have been lost in the news yesterday, but right after the Microsoft Blogger Breakfast I cornered Chris Satchell to ask him about the future of the Xbox 360's backwards compatibility.

He said that Microsoft still has a team working on it, but that they won't continue to do so forever.

"At some point we're going to focus less on it," he said. "When you get to the end of this year there will be a reduced focus on backwards compatibility. There are so many 360 games out there. I don't know if it's important anymore."

So that now leaves the Wii as the only console that seems to keep that as an important feature. Is it? Brian Crecente

A Playstation 3 owner put together a little video to show what happens to Playstation 2 games when they are played on the PS3. The end result, he says the video appears to show, is that you get more jaggies and artifacts when playing a PS2 or PSone game on the new console than if you were to play it on the PS2.

He says this is because the PS3 resizes the image at a low resolution with no filtering. I don't know, I noticed the same issue once I started playing PS2 games on my 50-inch high-def television, they just look like crap on a big TV. I haven't noticed a substantial difference between playing PS2 games on either system. Have you?

Judging from the forum posts about this, this particular issue isn't something everyone is running into. Maybe it's TV-related. Brian Crecente

The first time you pop in a PS2 game the system tells you you need to create a small partition on your drive to act like a virtual memory card. Then it just saves progress on it as it would a regular memory card.

After that you just need to pop the game in and start it like you would a PS3, simple as that.

I've tried three or four games on the system and all have worked fine, including SingStar using the USB microphones. I haven't been able to try to do a Guitar Hero or Guitar Hero 2 work around yet because you need to get a special adapter to be able to plug your guitar, or any PS2 controller, into a PS3.

Gameplay seems pretty much unchanged. Though you're now using the PS3, rumbleless controller, to play the games. The console does give you the option of selecting digital or analog mode for the controller, which is nice. But that can't make up for how relatively cruddy the games look after playing PS3 games for the day, but that's not too surprising. Brian Crecente

The last Xbox 360 backwards compatibility came and went, and there was much gnashing of teeth. "Where's Psychonauts?" asked the Internet's vast constabulary of fans of a game I've never been smart enough to appreciate. A yellowish loogie was perceived to arc from Microsoft's puckered lips into Tim Schaffer's face.

But don't fret: Psychonauts is coming. Alan Stuart of the Backwards Compatibility team told Aeropause that it's being worked on... nay, is imminent.

We worked on Psychonauts and it was almost ready to ship, but it didn't make the deadline. We continue to work on all games.

So we should see it in the next update, right, Alan? Florian Eckhardt

Backwards Compat: Psychonauts Almost Done [Aeropause]

A whole slew of shitty games and a handful of decent ones have finally crawled up the slimy pipe of backwards compatibility. Still no Psychonauts, Jet Set Radio Future or Prince of Persia: Two Thrones.

Aggressive Inline
Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis
All Star Baseball 2003
All Star Baseball 2005
Burnout 3: Takedown
Catwoman
Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart (UPDATED)
Counter Strike
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Dead to Rights

More after the jump, wooooooo!

Digimon Rumble Arena 2 (UPDATED)
ESPN Major League Baseball
Fatal Frame 2
Ford vs. Chevy (UPDATED)
Freaky Flyers
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows
Tom Clancy s Ghost Recon - Island Thunder
Half Life 2 (UPDATED)
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer UPDATED
IndyCar Series 2005
Kabuki Warrior (UPDATED)
Lego Star Wars II
Links 2004
Magatama (UPDATED)
Maximum Chase
Mortal Kombat: Deception (UPDATED)
MTX: Mototrax Featuring Travis Pastrana
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection
MX vs. ATV Unleashed
Outlaw Tennis
Over the Hedge
Sid Meier's Pirates
Richard Burns Rally
Rogue Trooper
Serious Sam
Shincho Mahjong
Smashing Drive
Sneakers (UPDATED)
Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run
The Legend of Spyro: A Beginning
TAZ: Wanted
True Crime Streets of LA
The Suffering
Trigger Man
Torino Winter Olympics 2006
Vietcong
Wrath Unleashed
X-Men II: Wolverine's Revenge

Eliza Gauger

I didn't like Psychonauts. That admission alone will cause some of you to wrongfully vilify me as some sort of monster. I'm not a monster. I tried to love it, I wanted to love it! I played two hours of Psychonauts, then quit: the game's quirky humor, much lauded by the same internet that finds Something Awful funny, was lost on me as I stared at the screen, my lips compressed into a grim, humorless line. Upon being forced to fight some stupid tank that I couldn't figure out how to beat, I quit in disgust and went out to beat a baby to death with a bag full of kittens.

Nevertheless, I know a lot of people love it, and are dismayed that Psychonauts can not be played in backwards compatibility mode on the 360. Tim Schaffer is too! And he wants you to help fight back!

I want you to get up. I want you to walk over to your window right now. I want you to open your window up, and then I want you to stick your head out, and then I want you to take in a nice breath of fresh air, and then I want you to close that window and walk back to your computer and click on this link and send Microsoft a heartfelt message. Something to the effect of, "I am a 9-year-old boy in the hospital, dying of consumption, and my last wish is to play Psychonauts on my XBOX 360!" (Please, try to make up your own disease.)

Remember to follow politically correct protocol when you're picking your disease! Trust me on this: you don't want to get the National Down Syndrome Congress on your back. Florian Eckhardt

Psychonauts on the XBox 360 [Double Fine]

An interesting idea, but it introduces a weird problem: this means that earlier PS3s will be fully backwards compatible where as later model PS3s will likely not be, as PS2 games will be running under emulation, which always tends to be a bit finickier.

Too bad they can't cram a PS1 in there while they're at it. FLORIAN ECKHARDT

Sony Bundles PS2 With PS3 [IGN]

Msoft Marketeer John Porcaro reports that he went and spoke to the BC team and were told that Msoft is in the testing phase of another batch update which should hit in a few weeks. The list will include at least a dozen titles, JP reports.

What I find most interesting about the post is the fact that it somehow manages to never mention the fact that BC has become a hot topic is because Peter Moore shot his mouth off about it.

Hello, he's the guy running things. Oh, and according to our survey 40 percent of those who voted think it's very important, while only 13 percent either never use BC or think it's not important at all. Brian Crecente

Backwards Compatibility Update Coming Soon [GameScore Blog]

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I'm most excited about Black making the list of new games I can play on my 360.

New Games
BLACK
Star Wars Battlefront II
World Soccer Winning Eleven 9

Updated Games
Darkwatch
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Half-Life 2
Fable
Fable: The Lost Chapters
Forza Motorsport
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden Black
SSX 3
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
kill.switch
World Series Baseball 2K3

Gee, glad to see they got Kabuki Warriors on there.

Revised XBox 360 Backwards Compatibility List [XBox.com]

It sounds like this is mostly due to the fact that the BC team is on holiday through January. The team is going to jump on priority titles when they get back to work, but ActiveXbox is reporting that there may only be a few more BC updates for the Xbox 360 through the END OF THE YEAR. Cripes, I hope they're mammoth updates or this guy is wrong.

No More Backwards Compatibility Updates Till March [Active Xbox]

IGN is reporting that the silver PlayStation 2 isn't as backwards compatible as its predecessors. Some older titles are having problems running on the hardware. It's an annoyance that a handful of PlayStation 2 games are having problems on the unit, but the majority of games having issues are PSOne games. The last time I turned on a PSOne game, it was probably on my original PlayStation, anyway.

Peter Moore is promising that a list of backward compatible Xbox games will be posted on the Xbox.com site in the next week or so.

In an interview with Game Informer, Moore said that they will probably be in a position to post the list next week but that it will likely be updated as "more and more games get through certification." So don't be freaked when the initial list comes out and Halo or something isn't on there.

X05: Peter Moore and J Allard Speak Up [Game Informer]