History is a very important part of who we are, Wargaming is a company who's franchise is based firmly in the past. Below you can see a video detailing the marrying of both history and gaming as the RAF museum together with Wargaming rescue and then exhibit a World War 2 Dornier17. It shows a wonderful community spirit from both parties but also the desire to preserve a piece of history.
Keen gamers celebrate project’s release in HimalayasWargaming, the leading free-to-play MMO developer and publisher, has revealed details of the Everest expedition, organized by seven World of Warplanes players who have tackled the treacherous slopes of the Himalayas to commend the release of the game.
About World of WarplanesWorld of Warplanes is a flight combat MMO action game set in the Golden Age of military aviation. Throwing players into a never-ending tussle for air dominance, the game allows aircraft enthusiasts to pursue full-scale careers as virtual pilots, earning their wings in intense 15-vs-15 battles where supremacy in the air depends not only on a fast trigger ringer, but also coordinated teamwork. Tune in on Friday November 22nd from 2 - 4 PM ET at socialclub.rockstargames.com/events or at twitch.tv/rockstargames for a special first live GTA Online Event broadcast show hosted by Rockstar. We’ll also be hosting a live chat at both of those pages where you can ask questions, or tell us what you and your Crew are up to in Online and we just might drop in on you to spectate with our live Event cameras. Make sure to follow us at Twitch or at Twitter or Facebook to get the word straight away when the broadcast begins. Members of Rockstar Games will also be online during the broadcast playing on both Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network as PlayRockstar, PlayRockstar1 and PlayRockstar2, so feel free to look for us and send a request our way on Friday. We look forward to seeing you all in the Playlists causing bucketloads of carnage up and down the coastline. Stay tuned as this is just the first of many Grand Theft Auto Online Social Club Events that will be happening regularly in the months to come. 
This weekend, Friday November 22nd through Sunday November 24th, hit the beaches of Vespucci, Chumash and Paleto Bay for the very first Grand Theft Auto Online Social Club Event Weekend. Sweepstakes Grand Prize: GTAV Logo Beach Towel and Los Santos Lifeguard Tee
In case it slipped your mind the stimulus packages are the monetary drops that rockstar promised to players who went online in GTAV in October. They will equal half a million in game dollars from two equal drops of 250,000 dollars each.
 Money in the Bank Given some of the recent technical issues during these first days of GTA Online, and now that things are starting to look much smoother (touch wood!), we are planning to provide a special stimulus package for all who have played or will play Grand Theft Auto Online this month. We will be dropping a cool half a million GTA$ in the GTA Online bank accounts of all players this month, starting as early as next week. ‘Don’t Spend It All in One Place!’ In order to keep the current worldwide in-game economy balanced, we will be providing this GTA$ to players via two deposits of $250,000. We will announce specific dates as soon as possible, but are currently hoping to be able to make the first deposit by the end of next week (after we’ve confirmed that issues causing game progress loss have been fixed) with the second installment to happen by the end of the month. For players who experienced cloud server errors, connection issues, and lost game progress and characters in these first days of GTA Online, we hope this GTA$ helps to facilitate a fresh start or makes your continued life in Los Santos and Blaine County extra sweet. Below are a few more details on how it will work. Stay tuned for tips on how to make the most of GTA$ cash, info on ways and places to earn more cash fast, as well as updates on all the new GTA Online content additions we’re working on for this fall and beyond. · You must play or have played Grand Theft Auto Online at any time during the month of October 2013 in order to qualify for the GTA$500,000 deposit in your in-game bank account. · Players will first have to install a forthcoming GTAV title update which we expect to happen next week. That title update (1.04) is expected to fix the remaining instances of issues that have caused vehicle purchase loss and will also enable the functionality through which we’ll be providing this GTA$ stimulus cash to players. · We will announce at the Rockstar Newswire when each deposit is made. · Each of the two GTA$250,000 deposits will be made by Rockstar and should automatically appear in the in-game GTA Online bank accounts of eligible players. Beyond downloading the forthcoming title update mentioned above, there should not be any additional special action required by eligible players to redeem. *Bar = 1 million
The highlight of the video for me at least is the cross platform nature of the clans. This will help to build communities and is a step in the right direction. But watch the video to see what your highlights are, A whole host of fixes have been added in the new GTAV update available now on both consoles. Hopefully at the rate the fixes are coming we should be able to organise a Gamenight in the next few weeks, so get your thinking caps on and dip is any events you would like to see added. You can find all the fuss fixes listed below add well as the rest of the Rockstar release. 
A new title update to address the reported issues of game progress loss in GTA Online as well as other technical fixes, tweaks and enhancements is now available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A new title update to address the reported issues of game progress loss in GTA Online as well as other technical fixes, tweaks and enhancements is now available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. 
Today Rockstar are starting to address some of the problems GTA online has had in the form of a patch. The full details are below but all we can hope is this will make the game more stable so we can finally get some Los Santos multiplayer under our belts Thank you everyone for continuing to bear with us since Tuesday’s initial roll out of Grand Theft Auto Online – we’re aware that a variety of technical difficulties have made it difficult to get access and that the experience has been a bit less than smooth for many of you who jumped in straight away, so here are a few updates as of this afternoon to keep you all apprised. At the Rockstar Games Support site, there is adedicated article listing out the most common technical issues being reported. Things are changing and developing frequently but here are some latest updates as of this afternoon:For PlayStation 3 users, a PlayStation Network server issue was detected that was limiting the amount of possible concurrent users. This was preventing most players from accessing GTA Online altogether and as of this morning, that problem was resolved.
The Curve Studios TakeoverTo celebrate the release of Jasper Byrne's Lone Survivor we decided to highlight all the games that we have reviewed from Curve Studios and what a collection of titles they are. You can look at all the reviews below. A new Comic Book Reviewer enters the siteOur new writer Kevin Birtcher started with an eclectic mix of titles but one thing for sure is his writing style has impressed lots and we are very happy he have him aboard the site.
There have been quite a few changes going on around the site. Some of these will be getting revealed over the next few weeks but we are happy to announce a new writer will be joining the site. His first pieces will be up on Tuesday and we will be introducing him later in the week Eurogamer News Feed
GTAV: The First 30 MinutesBelieve it or not but GTAV was released last week, you may not have realised but lets face it would you really be reading this page if you did not know. Anyway we sent our intrepid explorer Jon to find out if Rockstar have lived up to the pre-release hype. You van view his findings here. Fashion Beast
 We are celebrating the UK's top gaming show with the creation of a dedicated news feed.
We will be bringing you all the news and views before during and after the show, as well as some community based frolics that will be announced soon. So keep your eyes locked on Backwards Compatible your friendly neighbourhood news feed. We are going to be adding a new dedicated blog later in the week so keep an eye out. For now though its time to take a look around the world of BC. Forum funThe work on the Beta version of Forum is still going on. Thankfully our head Elf is back after getting married (Congratulations Jolo from all of us) so we are moving at a pace. We are happy for new folks to join, in an attempt to test the hell out of the forum and of course grow the community. Here's the link to make life easier. FIFA14 vs PES14 in the battle for moneyThe big two played the first big Derby of the season and to see which game came out on top follow the link (in case your not sure its the blue highlighted word). BreakQuest Extra Evolution A block breaker with a retro feel, but can this feemium title break the stigma most games in the genre have? Comic ReviewsIts not often we will paste a full press release and sit back, however this release from Special Effect is one of the times where my shortened description would not really be good enough to convey the full message. So please take a look and do two things past the post on and think about supporting this great charity. Many Thanks Backwards Compatible team SpecialEffect, the charity that enables people with disabilities to play games through adapted technology, have today appealed to all gamers to support their first ever crowdfunding project, codenamed PLAYING WITH YOUR EYES.
Its been another hectic week here at Backwards Compatible. I thankfully am now back in the world of full internet and have a few of the big articles and news stories from the site for your viewing pleasure. Backwards Compatible Forum moves into open Beta That's right we now have a forum. At the moment we are in active Beta trying to hone the forum into a well oiled machine. As such we are looking for some testers and hope that you (yes you reading this) will be up for the task. You can find the Forum by clicking on the Logo to the left or the Forum label at the top of the page. We hope to see lots of you on the forum in the coming weeks and months. Gone Home reviewed in a Jon sort of Way Jon spent some time playing Gone Home and then went about describing his experience. Its not a true review but instead a look into; Gone Home; proof that games can still be intelligent, moving experiences. DMC; Devil May Cry, The Chronicles of Vergil  A prologue to Capcom's 2013 hit game DMC.
The focus of the comic is Vergil and Kat two of the main characters NPC's in the game. The comic is a fast entertaining read and hopefully the review is not a bad read either.  UPDATE - The forum is now live - click here to take a look and join in! As the eagle eyed Twitter aficionados out there may have noticed, we have been thanking a number of people in the last few weeks in our Follow Friday tweets. Well, we are now in the position to announce what they have been working on. The Backwards Compatible Forum will be the latest addition to our community section. We hope it will become a place for like-minded individuals to meet and chat. We are almost ready to fully launch but are looking for a few more Beta testers to help test the performance of the forum. If you would like to jump on them please email; aaron@backwardscompatible.co.uk and he will be able to get you on the forum in no time at all.
First of all, an introduction to this new update. We will take a quick whiz around the site from the week that has passed and post up a few of the highlights. So, without further ado, here we go: Our first Community cast Our resident Community manager AK hosted the first Community cast featuring a few friends of the site. Their topic for discussion this week was the Call of Duty Ghosts Reveal. Our three guests were @iTzViiveyy, @Gunns4Show and @NightshadowGame Give them all a twitter Follow, they are a great group of guys. The cast at the moment is in video form and can be viewed on the Community page of the site. We will be continuing with the community casts so keep an eye out as we will be getting as many of you on the air as we can.
 Hi Guys AK here! With Jon and Paul being away for this week’s BC Community Night It’s down to me to do the Battle report! WE were blighted with spawn trappers this week and it was rather infuriating for the best part because I couldn’t get out of the spawn so you could get my tags!
@BandofBROZ have upped the game and Dusty and Shinobi have shot into a clear lead, taking 1st and 2nd places! Thank you everyone for coming along and taking part. The next evening will be on the 31st August 2013! So mark your calendars and keep it free. See you on the battlefield! 8pm Tonight Backwards Compatible's Battlefield 3 Community Night featuring the #AKchallenge.17/8/2013
 Just a Quick Remider of tonights Community Night. The Time - 8PM BST (British Summer Time) till the stupid hours of the morning. The Place - Battlefield 3, PS3, Backwards Compatible Server What you need - Just the basic maps, No DLC and Mostly importantly your A game and a Knife. For a reminder of our the #AKchallenge then follow the link. A word of advice for all those hoping to get to the top of the leaderboard "Guns for Show, Knives for a Pro".  The first order of business for our new community manager was to start helping to develop core skills in Battlefield 3. So here is his first video concentrating on Tank warfare.
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