Spotted via Techcrunch that Big Fish Games has closed an $83.3 million funding round.
That’s pretty sweet!
So who can say games are just child’s play…?
Juuso: "Russell: it’s the amount of junk in me house I dislike… I don’t like the idea of owning seven thousand different consoles connected to a tv. :)" 3 hours 56 minutes ago. Juuso: "Jake: what about stealth/assassinations - are they interesting as in Thief (=cool) or interesting as in Assassins Creed I (=pretty okay)?" 3 hours 58 minutes ago. 
Jake Birkett: "Shame. The PS2 played PS1 games but they looked funny. Can anyone 100% confirm if the PS3 games are really region free? If so I might buy one in Canada..." 7 hours 6 minutes ago. Jake Birkett: "@Juuso: Yes, it’s very good. I’m impressed. It has great graphics and a great atmosphere of 15th Century Italy (I actually feel like..." 7 hours 8 minutes ago. 
GamingHorror: "Besides the already mentioned points, backwards compatibility seems not to be a big issue. It’s definetely not a system seller." 10 hours 55 minutes ago. 
Lumooja: "It’s production costs. The old PS3 had a chip which could run PS2 games, so it didn’t need to emulate them. It also had bigger harddrive, more USB..." 12 hours 46 minutes ago. 
mikeful: "Original model supported PS2 games. For some reason backwards compatibility was dropped from newer models. PS1 games are software emulated on all models...." 13 hours 41 minutes ago. 
Russell: "Actually, I believe that the first-generation PS3s did support PS2 games, but are only compatible with 92%-98% of them. You can check which models are..." 15 hours 9 minutes ago. 
