21w ago - Sony Digital Distribution Senior Manager Pierre Gravereau posted up holiday essentials week 2 of awesome seals on PS3 and PS Vita games today.

To quote: I hope you enjoyed your first week of deals on PS3 and PS Vita games for our Holiday Essentials Sale.

As I mentioned in our previous post, we're bringing you some of the best PlayStation games at great prices to help you stock up for the holidays.

This week we're providing you with 16 awesome action/adventure games along with other essential PlayStation titles. For great prices you can take part in Starhawk's frenetic space combat and multiplayer battles, relive two of Kojima's most acclaimed titles in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, or bend your mind with the award-winning Journey.

In addition, PlayStation Plus delivers an extra special deal this week - we're offering members Retro City Rampage for absolutely nothing. Moreover, Retro City Rampage features Cross-Buy, which means that when you purchase either the PS Vita or PS3 version, you get the other version at no additional cost!

As a reminder, you can save 30%- or up to 50% for PlayStation Plus members- on the action-packed...

30w ago - Following up on his previous releases and the BlackB0x FTP V1.2 / ReActPSN Rogero Fix for 4.21 CFW ports, today PlayStation 3 developer Comgenie has updated his Awesome Filemanager v0.06 adding support for PS3 CFW 4.21.

Download: Comgenie's Awesome Filemanager v0.06 for PS3 4.21 CFW / Comgenie's Awesome Filemanager v0.06 for PS3 4.21 CFW (Mirror) / Comgenie's Awesome Filemanager v0.06 for PS3 4.21 CFW (Mirror #2)

Comgenie's Awesome FileManager v0.06 Changelog:

Release Log 0.06

• Added move support for faster moving files/directories instead of copy/delete.
  
• Added very basic LUA support (only string/math libs + echo function). Expect much more functions to be supported in next releases
  
• Several fixes for (again) people...

120w ago - Some of you may have heard of Killahs Awesome Update Finder v1.0, and after lot of hard work I present you with my new tool Killahs PS3 AIO Tool BETA v2.

Download: Killahs PS3 AIO Tool BETA v2

With this tool you can search for game updates (retail, debug, q&a, release candidate...) and download them where ever you want, search for game titles (uses sonyindex), add games with infos & covers into a database, Options Dialog.

This tool is still in beta phase, because at the moment it is NOT multilanguage (only english) and maybe have some bugs. But i've tested each function and the program is still functionally I promise you

Please feel free to comment and PLEASE report me any bugs and/or ideas/wishes, what do you want in the program...

The program is self explaining, each button, each textbox etc. has a tooltip in my opinion, it is n00b save But read below for a short introduction...

Working with it is totally easy:

1. Click on "Options" and search for the dir(s) containing your games (click on the Button in the middle. After that, click on "OK", the window will be closed and brings you back to the Update form.

2. Click on "Search files", the...

125w ago - Recently gliitch has released what he calls Gliitch's Awesome XMB for PS3 JailBreak users, which is based on PlayStation 3 dev_flash and RCO file modifications.

Download: Gliitch's Awesome XMB for PS3

To quote: I have been working away at this for a few days, and its a follow up to my Unstable version of my XMB. Well good news people, it is now fully usable.

As this is still my first proper release, its not by any means complete. No debug options enabled yet, but i think i have done pretty well. Thank you GregoryRasputin for helping me out.

Little hint, check out "About Game" from any Homebrew app.





So, the time came for me to delve deep into dev_flash once again, to see what more i could find...

Well i found out how to change the title names of each application from User to Playstation Network. In doing so i learned that as cool as these mods are, it makes your PS3 EXTREAMLY UNSTABLE!

This is more of a learning curve for me, and it can be for the rest of you guys too

136w ago - Update #2: NZHawk has now made available PSPoke v1.0, PSPoke v1.1 and PSL1GHT Logger. Details on each PS3 homebrew application are posted below.

Update: NZHawk has also released PS3 Awesome Update Finder v0.10, PS3 Awesome Update Finder v0.2 and PS3 Awesome Update Finder v0.3 for finding PS3 game updates and QuickDumpR v0.1 for PS3 which is a tiny application that will dump the PS3 RAM to the HDD in 15 seconds from launch to XMB. It uses the same code as the Awesome Peek Poker, but takes up less space in the ram, thus a less messy dump!

NZHawk has released Awesome PeekPoke today which dumps live ram using peek/poke commands and posted a video of it in action along with a Patch App that will patch the offset 57410 with the data 48000098- launch...