Recently the PS3 Dev Team received a PS3 Reference TOOL Kit and detailed the Frontside and Backside of the hardware.

Today we popped off the top of our PS3 TOOL to share how this monstrous machine works!

For starters, the cover is large but thin, and quite sharp (it drew blood!). Underneath the top cover are multiple steel covers, nearly 1/8th of an inch thick. This keeps the PS3 TOOL...

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Today Team HyperX has released IXtreme 1.61 Firmware for Benq and Samsung XBox 360 drives alongside the updated JungleFlasher v0.1.67 Beta.

Download: BenQ iXtreme THX v1.61 / Samsung iXtreme THX v1.61 / JungleFlasher v0.1.67 Beta

From the NFO file:

IXtreme fw for Benq and Samsung drives!

Features:

• Strict Wave 4 compliance! hybrid (modified disks) will not boot!
• Strict Wave 3...

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PlayStation Store Senior Manager Grace Chen has unveiled this weekend's frightfully scary PSN video content update.

To quote: Here’s the list of top downloads and new arrivals on the Video Store this week.

We have a few new releases to note: Orphan, The Proposal, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and Battlestar Galactica: The Plan. Plus, yesterday on the game store...

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Update: VG247.com has now confirmed that a Euro DSiLL will arrive in Q1 2010 at higher price of DSi, to quote:

“Nintendo today confirms that a new Nintendo DSi XL console is launching in Europe in the first quarter of 2010. The retail price of the Nintendo DSi XL is expected to be higher than that of the Nintendo DSi. Further details will be released soon.”

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Electronic Arts Product Marketing Manager Brent Dady has announced today that Brütal Legend’s Tears of the Hextadon DLC is launching for free on PSN.

To quote: Now that Rocktober of the year of our metal Lords 2009 is coming to a close, we at Double Fine Productions and Electronic Arts are taking the time to reflect back upon a pretty eventful year.

Here are just...

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This weekend a video of Sony's new 360 degree 3D hologram display in action surfaced via GameTrailers.

This cylindrical concept can be viewed from all angles, and was on display at Tokyo's Digital Contents Expo just before the weekend.

Still under development, the prototype is about 10.6-inches tall (and 5.1-inches in diameter). Sony doesn't seem quite sure...

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PlayStation Store Senior Manager Grace Chen is back with this weekend's PSN update today.

To quote: Hope you all had a great week. Here’s the list of top downloads and new arrivals on the Video Store this week. You’ll notice we got in Naruto Shippuden Uncut the TV series.

For a limited time episode 1 will be free on the Store, so head over for your free download....

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Today NIS America, Inc's PR/Marketing Coordinator Nao Zook has announced that starting today you can pre-order Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! on PSP UMD.

To quote: Seeing how much you guys are interested, we’ve decided to start the pre-order for the Badman UMD at RosenQueen.com. However, in order to make it possible for us to manufacture the UMD, we will have to get at...

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Here comes the US PSN update, courtesy of PlayStation Store Senior Manager Grace Chen.

To quote: It’s time for the weekly PlayStation Store Update.

Downloadable Games
Critter Crunch ($6.99)
Critter Crunch is an award winning, arcade-style puzzle game, starring the loveable Biggs. Using his long, sticky tongue to grab critters from vines, he feeds them to each other...

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On Friday Sony announced they have developed a prototype power system that can send enough electricity to power a television set wirelessly over a short distance.

In tests, the company succeeded in sending a conventional 100 volt electricity supply over a distance of 50 centimeters to power a 22-inch LCD television.

To quote: "The system achieves this feat...

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