** Initial PlayStation 3 models are backward compatible with most PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games.

While often criticized for its reliance on existing franchises, the company developed several titles for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 based on original intellectual property: Lost Planet and Dead Rising.

* The Chimera is the name of the enemy alien race from Insomniac Games ' Resistance trilogy for the PlayStation 3.

* PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3

The perennial debates between users of competing operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS, or the GNU / Linux operating system, users of Intel and AMD processors, and users of the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game systems, often escalate into seemingly unending " flamewars ", called also software wars.

Some newer game consoles, such as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, had publishing policies which mandated the use of anti-aliasing in all games released for them.

In 2007, the Advertising agency TBWA decided to use Moğollar's late 1960s track, Garip Çoban ( translated-Lonesome Shepherd ; written by Murat Ses ) in the This is Living advertisement campaign for Sony's PlayStation 3.

In 2007 Advertising agency TBWA decided to use the early 70s Moğollar song ' Garip Çoban ' ( meaning Poor Shepherd in Turkish ), composed by Murat Ses, in PlayStation 3 campaigns commercial.

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* Polyphemus will be featured in the 2013 PlayStation 3 video game, God of War: Ascension.

On June 15, 2009, THQ released Red Faction: Guerrilla, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows.

It has also been responsible for localizing a number of non-Square titles, including Capcom's Breath of Fire for the SNES and Sony's Wild Arms 3 for the PlayStation 2.

* Terminator Salvation ( video game ), 2009 game for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3

A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.

For example, Turtle Beach is a third party headset company to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

On June 1, 2012, Worms Collection will be released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

It was a revamp of the original Worms 3D and Worms 4: Mayhem engine, and it was released on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

The world of video games reached the 7th Generation in the form of consoles like the Wii, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by the mid 2000s.

The number-one-selling game console as of the decade, the PlayStation 2, was released in 2000 and remained popular up to the end of the decade, even after the PlayStation 3 was released.

In 2004, Asteroids ( Including both the Atari 2600 port and the arcade original, along with Asteroids Deluxe ) were included as part of Atari Anthology for both Xbox and PlayStation 2, using Digital Eclipse's emulation technology.

* In 1995 an adventure game based on the series was released called Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity on the PC, with a PlayStation port being released in Japan.

** The PlayStation 2 is backward compatible with most of the original PlayStation library.

** The PS Vita is backward compatible with PSP games, Minis, PlayStation and Neo Geo games downloaded from the PlayStation Store.

The main character from the Namco game for the PlayStation Portable Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception who remains unnamed in the story but rather goes by his codename Gryphus-1 ( as he is the leader of the Gryphus Squadron ) is known as the " Southern Cross ", and his squadron's emblem is an Andean Condor with the Southern Cross in its beak.

A game of the same name developed by G-Artists and published by Bandai was released in 2005 for PlayStation Portable, but this is a sequel to the PlayStation 2 game, with a completely different storyline, setting, and gameplay.

Karaoke Revolution, created for the PlayStation 2 by Harmonix and released by Konami in North America in 2003, is a console game in which a single player sings along with on-screen guidance and receives a score based on pitch, timing, and rhythm.

In terms of its long lasting impact on the video game industry, perhaps the most intriguing aspect is Wyn Holloway's claim that Lucasfilm had their frequent partner Sony lined up to manufacture their version of the system, this being contemporaneous with Sony's development of the SNES-CD for Nintendo, which ultimately led to the first PlayStation.

In another side effect, Square Co. ( now Square Enix ) executives have suggested that the price of publishing games on the Nintendo 64 along with the degree of censorship and control that Nintendo enforced over its games, most notably Final Fantasy VI, were factors in switching its focus towards Sony's PlayStation console.

Although SNK's American home entertainment division quickly acknowledged that the system simply was incapable to compete with the 3D-able powerhouse systems of the day like Sega's Saturn and Sony's PlayStation, SNK corporate of Japan felt they could continue to maintain profitable sales in the Japanese home market by shortening the previous system's load-times.

By 1993 the 32-bit 3DO platform was released with much developer interest and Sega and Sony let it be known that the Sega Saturn and PlayStation would be ready for the Japanese marketplace in late 1994, and Bandai was also readying the release of their Playdia system.

Quake III Revolution was released for the PlayStation 2 ( ported by Bullfrog Productions and released by Electronic Arts ) in 2001, featuring several elements adopted from Team Arena, along with a more mission-based single-player mode.

The game has also been ported to the PlayStation Portable ( PSP ), with multiplayer options, the ability to load maps and mods, and has inspired homebrew like Kurok, a mix of Turok and Goldeneye 64, and Left 4 Quake, a fan-made Left 4 Dead in Quake.

Square was one of the many companies that had planned to develop and publish their games for the Nintendo 64, but with the cheaper costs associated with developing games on CDs for the Sony PlayStation, the games were instead made for PlayStation.

was a shell corporation founded by Square to create video games for the Nintendo GameCube, even though Square had an exclusive deal with Sony Computer Entertainment to create games only for PlayStation consoles.

Games continue to be ported to the PlayStation 2 ( mostly in Europe since most of the games did not get an approval from SCEA ) and, in some cases, Microsoft's Xbox.

The game was set to be released for Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and for personal computers, but the game was delayed and on 2 February 2007, EA announced that the game had been put on an indefinite hiatus, and to date no further information has been released.

There was little hope for the L600, however, for its speculated release date was during the peak of Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's PlayStation 2, and Nintendo's GameCube, and it was just one of the many independently developed systems that would never rise out of obscurity and gain much popularity, as the three aforementioned systems had already secured the home console gaming market.

Mega Man 2 was included with nine other games in the series in Mega Man Anniversary Collection for the Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Microsoft's Xbox, released between 2004 and 2005.

The latest release is the UE3, designed for Microsoft's DirectX 9 ( for Windows and Xbox 360 ), DirectX 10 ( for Windows Vista ) and DirectX 11 ( for Windows 7 and later ), OpenGL for Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Wii U, iOS, Android, and Stage 3D for Adobe Flash Player 11.

Yamauchi touted the Nintendo GameCube as a machine designed exclusively to be a video game console ; an approach which he considered different from Microsoft's and Sony's for their respective Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles.

One title, Ace Combat X, was released on the PlayStation Portable ( PSP ) platform, while another title, Ace Combat 6, was released on Microsoft's Xbox 360 platform.

A PAL version was later released during May 2005 for PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox through ZOO Digital Publishing.

Many older video game systems do not allow games from different regions to be played, however more modern consoles, either leave protection to the discretion of publishers such as Microsoft's Xbox 360 or discontinue its use entirely like Sony's PlayStation 3.

Kolber's football broadcast narrative is featured on Sega's video game, ESPN NFL Football for Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation 2.

( Unlike Sony's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox video game console, the GameCube cannot output Macrovision gain-control copy distortion signals ).

A HD-remake version titled Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, is available for purchase on Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade and Sony's PlayStation Network.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 video game consoles can also play WMV HD.

Current generation video game consoles such as Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 can display games and video content in 1080p ( although the majority of games are rendered at lower resolutions ).

Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 are capable of DTS decoding and output via TOSLINK or HDMI as LPCM.

YouTube and other internet based video services allow users to watch network shows on demand on their computers by using TiVo and other set-top boxes such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.

Currently HDRR has been prevalent in games, primarily for PCs, Microsoft's Xbox 360, and Sony's PlayStation 3.

The game was also included in the 2005 Capcom Classics Collection for the Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox and in Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded for the PlayStation Portable.

eDRAM is used in IBM's POWER7 processor and in many game consoles and other devices, including Sony's PlayStation 2, Sony's PlayStation Portable, Nintendo's GameCube, Nintendo's Wii, Nintendo's Wii U, Apple Inc .' s iPhone, Microsoft's Zune HD, and Microsoft's Xbox 360.