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Without Playstation 2, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy any of the games we enjoy today.

The console officially turned 10 years of age in North America last week (November 24th is bday time for Europe) and to celebrate the the US PS Blog has compiled a list of some pretty famous developers’ favourite all time PS2 games. I think you’ll find that most of these games would find their way into your lists of top PS2 games too. Here’s a sampling of the top choices. Head over to the US Blog to read their choices in more detail.

* Stig Asmussen – Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
* Cliff Bleszinski – Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
* Ed Boon – Guitar Hero
* Scott Campbell – Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
* David Cage – Ico
* Alex Evans – Burnout 3: Takedown
* Chet Faliszek – Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
* Nate Fox – God of War
* Tasha Harris – Okami
* Todd Howard – Grand Theft Auto III
* Hermen Hulst – God of War
* David Jaffe – Ico
* Ken Levine – Dark Cloud 2
* Ted Price – SSX
* Tim Schafer – Katamari Damacy
* Warren Spector – Ico

What’s top of your list?!

At Gamescon, Joystiq had the privilege to not only see but thankfully record footage of Guerrilla’s original Killzone pitch. The video, mainly created to give prospective

It looks like Studio Liverpool has a new Wipeout Title in the works. The word comes from a CV of former employee Martin Linklater who lost his position at the developer as part of Sony’s restructuring earlier in the year. The CV has been dug up by Siliconera.

Martin’s CV cleary states that he had been working on an ‘Unannounced Wipeout Project’ as well as an ‘unannounced Action Project’ and ‘unannounced hardware’. One could make the assumuption that the hardware is probably Playstation Move.

Final Fantasy XIII was originally meant to be a PS2 title, but we had to switch systems due to the arrival of the PS3, that cost us about one and a half years and was constantly a case of trial and error. However, because we worked so hard at the beginning, we got to a cruising speed

Kotaku have posted images of Final Fantasy XIII supposedly running on PS2. The images come from a couple of Sqaure-Enix books which detail the eventual finished game’s design. The images come from a pre E3 2006 build of the title and are running on PS2. Have a look at the images and tell us what you think. Some of the artwork and asethetics are very interesting.

With Final Fantasy XIII’s western release just a couple of months away, Amazon.de has today started to list ‘Final Fantasy XIII Special Edition’ on its site. The Special Edition costs €71.99 but the site fails to list any additional information, box art or any information on the actual additional content this SE will include. No word yet on whether or not the US will get an SE, but it’s safe to say that it probably will. More on this as we get it. Final Fantasy XIII hits the shelves on March 7th.

A couple of days ago we published a story that Shadow of the Colossus was rumoured to be receiving a re-issue in Japan. Turns out, the rumour is true. However this isn’t the ‘romantic God of War Blu-Ray Collection’ re-issue we all dreamed of. It’s merely a simple and straight forward PS2 re-issue. A little disappointing you might say, but hey, at least Fumito Ueda and Team Ico are getting this game back out on the market so that people, who didn’t play it first time out, will now get the chance to play it. Hopefully we’ll get a European re-issue too. This game deserves a re-issue more than any game I can think of. Its that’s special. Also its something to keep you occupied till The Last Guardian drops.