What you’re about to read is far from a wide-ranging concern. But it does highlight one legitimate reason Sony has for going after PS3 users installing their own ...

Custom modded consoles, though not nearly as common as their PC counterparts, are nothing new. From simple paint jobs to full blown extreme makeovers, there is no shortage of great looking tricked out ...

After Sony's somewhat bizarre "security" related decision to block Other OS installation on the original PS3 consoles with the next scheduled firmware update, hacker George Hotz – who some believe ...

If you have a few skills in Linux programming, it is now possible for you to create your very own personalized firmware for your PS3 system. Thanks to the work completed by the fail0verflow team in ...

PlaystationJournal is reporting that custom XMB music may be included in the upcoming PS3 2.40 Firmware update. The talk's emerged following Criterion listing, "Support for Custom Soundtracks on ...

Building upon the exploits of the fail0verflow hacking troupe, a tinkerer known as "KaKaRoToKS" has got the first "custom firmware" (CFW) running on PS3. The modification can be applied to any version ...

Earlier on it was reported that hackers had released the first custom PS3 firmware. Tools from ‘KaKaRoTo’ allowed users to create their own firmware using Linux and some coding knowledge, but it ...

Some tools released online overnight claim to allow the installation of “custom firmware” on a PlayStation 3. Capitalising on the work done last week by the fail0verflow team in breaking the PS3 wide ...

Tools will be available on github soon. See README.txt for more info. Update: Uh oh… Waninkoko speaks up: “Do NOT install in Slim consoles! Looks like users are reporting bricking issues. That’s weird ...

Let’s be honest with ourselves: We were all pretty impressed by the great looking silver and white PlayStation 3 machines that Sony was showing off at E3, before the machine’s official launch date.

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