The Gamer Access

• Modern Warfare 2 with Night Vision, I am there!
• PS2 Backwards Compatibility Making a Comeback Soon?
• ModNation Racers to Be a Hit?
• Sony Needs To Step It Up By Christmas Or It Is Curtains!
• Battlefield 1943 Impressions
• Is The 360 Hindering Third Party Development On The PS3?
• Why Is Blu-ray Not Being Fully Utilized?
• Will Forza 3 Sell Consoles for Microsoft?
• Why Games Being Delayed Is A Good Thing
• Idiots Online, And Why They Need To Go Away!
• MUCH MUCH MORE

Today I talk about PlayStation Home and how it could be improved. They keep bringing us these spaces, but is that going to keep us all coming back everyday?

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Looks like the PSP is finally getting some great games that are worth of a purchase! This game is said to have connectivity with the PS3 version which comes out later this year, so if you dont have a PS3 or a PSP, go out and get them!

I don't know about you, but I'm constantly sitting on the edge of my chair waiting to see what Guerilla Games is going to release next. Guerilla has announced a new Killzone 2 map pack called "Napalm & Cordite". Along with two new maps, you will also get two new weapons. Enough of me talking, click read more to see the "Napalm & Cordite" trailer. 

United Front Games new game, ModNation Racers, is one game I saw at the Sony Press Conference during E3 that had me excited. I have always been a huge Mario Kart fan since the Super Nintendo, and this is one game that could give it a run for its money. ModNation Racers is going to allow users to create and share cars and tracks via the online community. Click Read More to see the trailer.

Better Online Gaming is a weekly series that Christopher Myers discusses the possibilities that could better enhance gamers’ experiences online. This is the first issue of what will hopefully be a long running section that can be found at TheGamerAccess.com.

Each generation of consoles has had a certain niche that propelled certain consoles and companies to success. This generation is no different, especially when looking at the ever growing feud between Sony and Microsoft. The biggest battleground for these two behemoths has expanded beyond the living rooms of millions and is now waged abroad the online front. For many gamers, the console with the best online component is the best console period.

When this generation of gaming consoles started, two of the consoles, the Wii and the PlayStation 3, contained backwards compatibility for the games from their previous systems. The Xbox 360 had limited backwards compatibility for only the most popular games from the original Xbox. While the Wii has kept backwards compatibility for GameCube games and the 360 has continued to support more and more Xbox games via updates and patches, the newer models of the PS3, released after August 2008, have lost PS2 backwards compatibility. Late in 2007, due to complaints about the PS3's price and other factors we may not be aware of, Sony decided to pull the full backwards compatibility for PS2 games that was in the original 60gb and 20gb systems and replace it with partial backwards compatibility in a new 80gb model. Sony removed the Emotion Engine but left the GPU from the PS2 in the original 80gb model so PS2 backwards compatibility was done through software emulation. Many people griped about the quality of the emulation on the 80gb models, but Sony did as much as they could to improve the quality of it through firmware updates. Then in 2008, Sony removed PS2 backwards compatibility from all new PS3's completely leaving only backwards compatibility for PSOne games.