Today Capcom Entertainment's Sr. Director of Communications and Community Chris Kramer has announced that Monster Hunter Freedom Unite PSP players can do just that- unite with AdhocParty.

To quote: For the better part of a year, Japanese PlayStation 3 owners have been enjoying an amazing service on their PS3s, called adhocParty. As of this afternoon, all of us PSPers here in North...

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Recently Dutch user Sinnerman has leaked some new PS3 JIG pictures on the QJ.net (linked above) forums, and has revealed that PlayStation 3 Service Mode testing is underway with SKFU.

The application pictured below is used to create registry files required to finalize the PlayStation 3 JIG (SVC-H3A606SS) process, which must contain a valid e-mail address as they are authenticated with the SCEI...

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In a recent interview with PhysOrg, Dr. David McKinnon, a researcher from Queensland University of Technology and the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID), has mentioned a revolutionary new piece of software that could put users' faces in Sony's PlayStation Home.

The background research took eight years to develop, allowing anyone to convert 2D images into 3D models... and eventually...

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Roughly six months after PSP Custom Firmware 5.02 GEN-A was released comes the next update, namely PSP CFW 5.50 GEN-B!

Download: PSP Custom Firmware 5.50 GEN-B

To quote from the changelog, roughly translated:

Minimum Requirements:

• A PSP1000 or PSP2000 with TA-088v2 or below and PSP2000 with TA-090v1 Motherboard only (PSP2000 with TA-088v3 and all PSP3000 are not supported)
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As part of an absolutely massive 210-page report from Wedbush Morgan Securities on the future of the video game industry, analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that Japan will be the Achilles heel for Microsoft, enabling Sony's PS3 to overtake Xbox 360 on the global market.

Wii, however, will maintain its leadership role until the end (with a little help from a new "Wii HD").
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What can only be summed up as California taking notes from George W. Bush on how to get the masses distracted and angry at something other than a crippled economy.

The State of California is appealing to a bill that would ban the sales of violent video games in the state. The battle for this bill (despite the you know... crippling economy in California and all) has cost the state...

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PSP developer Ahman has now updated to iR Shell to v5.0, which includes the following changes:

This release is for PSP Slim & Lite only. It introduces an Advanced Multi-tasking feature which allows you to run 2 applications simultaneously and switch between them with a hot key.

Of course, you can still multi-task these 2 apps together with iR Shell build-in...

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GTA Chinatown Wars for Nintendo DS has been leaked online just before the weekend, and many users at GBATemp.net (linked above) have confirmed it works with a variety of carts.

The official streetdates for the title are March 17, 2009 for North America and March 20, 2009 for Europe.

Apparently it works on the G6 real with latest firmware, SCDS1 (clean, no...

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Recently Lili-Chan has updated PS3 Theme Builder to v3.0, which is now available for those interested in PS3 Theme creation.

Download: PS3 Theme Builder 3.0 (Upgrade Only)

PS3 Theme Builder 3.0 contains numerous updates, including but not limited to the following:

• The application now opens / extracts P3T files automatically, when selecting one using the File > Open command or...

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MKVtoPS3 v0.3 is now available!

MKVtoPS3 is software that allows you to convert MKV to PS3 without recompression. It remux your MKV file into M2TS file or AVCHD folder, readable by PS3.

The software is very easy to use and allows playback of MKV files with subtitles on USB flash drive or external hard drive.

Download: MKVtoPS3 v0.3

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