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 ...

PlayStation 3 and iPhone hacker GeoHot has released a video that seems to show custom firmware running on Sony's hardware. He also believes this may enable Linux on Slim PlayStation 3 units. To quote ...

Geohot, who is well known for his iPhone jailbreaking, has released a custom firmware tool for the PS3. This new firmware will eventually allow for non-official firmware to run on the PS3, opening up ...

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 ...

After taking Sony to task for yanking "Other OS" support from the PS3 in their latest firmware update, v3.21, George Hotz – aka geohot – has followed up on his promise to develop a custom firmware ...

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On top of the previously announced three new online modes to be introduced in Burnout Paradise's so-called "Cagney" software update, developer Criterion has revealed that the forthcoming download will ...

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 ...

Sony has created custom PlayStation 3 hardware to power its newly announced streaming service PlayStation Now, sources with knowledge of the project have told Digital Foundry at Eurogamer. This custom ...