It would be frustrating to spend so much time and talent, investing so much work on one level to make a masterpiece, only to find it obsoleted if a LittleBigPlanet 2 comes out. Anyone out there who made such a level? Alex Evans of Media Molecule won't let your levels gather dust in obscurity if a LittleBigPlanet sequel comes out - he and his team could make LittleBigPlanet backwards compatible.

For those who don't know, the Emotion Engine is the chip that Sony designed which acts as the PS2 CPU. The non-backwards compatible PS3s do not have one of these, hence, no PS2 games. According to the patent spotted, Sony is readying the code and the technology to use the Emotion Engine once again.

Aaaand: restock! Solid Snake's 80GB bundle is available once again on Amazon. Just in case you're looking to buy a PS3 unit (for yourself, or a friend, a brother, your girlfriend, your granny, who knows?), this one's worth a shot. The SKU was discontinued before, but now it's back.

Just so you know, this is not the Gun-metal Gray unit. This is, however, the backwards compatible version, so that's a plus.

Depressed and unemployed, Erik Salvador Ayala from Milwaukee went on a shooting spree in downtown Portland, then went on to shoot himself. He's still in critical condition, but he left a note for his roomie saying that he could have all that he owned, including his most prized possession - his 60GB backwards compatible PS3.

A vid up on YouTube shows a 40 GB PlayStation 3 running a PS2 game, supposedly proving that any PS3 model - not just the first batch - is backwards compatible with PS2 games. Reports claim that a patch will someday be available to unlock the feature in all PS3s.

Big thanks to misthero for the tip! Cookies for everybody else!

Yeah, we all booed when Sony decided to take out PS2 backwards compatibility in the later models of the PlayStation 3, but what's this? According to a product description from VideoGameCentral, Sony has a PS2 emulator for the PS3 available online. Buh?

Details after the link.

SCEE's PS3 SingStar title has just been given a patch that lets players swap out discs to access tracks found on other PS3 SingStar titles. Good news for gamers in Europe, but it's kind of useless for U.S. gamers at this point since only one SingStar title is out in the U.S. right now. More details after the jump.

Modding consoles is quite the risky business. After all, whenever you take apart a console by yourself, you're voiding the warranty and it may not work after you put it back together. Ben Heckendorn (or Ben Heck, as he is more commonly known) is not that kind of modder. He is the modder that modders all aspire to be. Check out why and what he just did to a backwards-compatible Sony PS3 in the full article.

The new PlayStation 3 models don't have backwards compatibility, which had a lot of gamers groaning. But how much is backwards compatibility worth? Would you buy the old 20 GB or 60 GB model at double the price of the newer, non-BC 40 GB model? It seems that gamers in Japan are willing to pay as much. Details in the full article.

After all the rumors surfacing about the backwards compatible PS3's deaths, it seems like Sony will be resurrecting the 80 GB next-gen console model with the release of the new game bundle containing the highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. For more information about this, read the all details in the full article.