53w ago - Sony Associate Product Manager Ken Chan has unveiled the final round and registration information for GT Academy 2012 today.

To quote: It's hard to believe, but the online competition of GT Academy 2012 is quickly coming to a close.

Since May 1st, over 900,000 competitors have driven more than 120,000,000 miles and reattempted 125,000,000 times for their chance to become this year's GT Academy Champion.

If you still haven't started, its not too late, as GT Academy 2012 is still available for free through the PlayStation Store until the end of the competition on June 24th.

With just two weeks left on the clock, the long awaited Rounds 7 and 8 have finally opened, completing the eight-round training program for this year's GT Academy. For those that's been keeping close tabs on the rumor mill, the infamous "Twin Ring Motegi East Short Course" is making it's Gran Turismo debut as the final Round 8, Event 5 - Time Trial race.

For the next two weeks, you must take everything you have learned from the eight-round training program and put it on the line for a top lap time. Remember, this event is only open from June 11, 2012 to June 24, 2012, so make it count!

Only the fastest lap times will...

58w ago - It's been less than a week since his previous revision, and today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer PsDev has updated PS3Tools GUI Edition to version 1.2 with the changes outlined below.

Download: PS3Tools GUI Edition v1.2 Application

This update adds SCE info alongside a hexdump option to dump the decrypted PS3 Core_OS for PlayStation 3 developers to examine.

Changes

• Added SCE info
  
• SCE info- lv0
  
• SCE info- lv1ldr
  
• SCE info- lv2ldr
  
• SCE info- appldr
  
• SCE info- isoldr
  
• SCE info- EBOOT.BIN
  
• Added hexdump option to dump decrypted core_os
  

Thanks to naehrwert, HSReina, Math, fail0verflow of course and any one else I forgot.

112w ago - Playstation Blog updated with latest info:

Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the current outage of PlayStation Network & Qriocity services. We don't have an exact date to share at this moment as to when we will have the services turned on, but are working day and night to ensure it is as quickly as possible. We are currently working to send the following message via email to all of our registered account holders regarding a compromise of personal information as a result of this malicious attack on our servers, so please look for this information via email as well. Please note that we are as upset as you are regarding this attack and are going to proceed aggressively to track down those that are responsible.

Source, full text and letter (plus interresting comments below) here: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/04/26/psnqriocity-service-update/

Letter:

Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer,

We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:

1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network...

133w ago - US Producer Josh Miller has shared a video and news of a new PS3 patch and DLC information on The Fight: Lights Out today for the PlayStation 3 entertainment system.

To quote: Today we're bringing you the first update to the game. This update resolves several small issues reported by players and includes the ability to make your fighter transparent in order to get a better view of your opponent.

If that weren't enough, you will now be able to use all of the boss characters as well as the main man, Duke, to use in both online and offline multiplayer modes as part of the Duke DLC pack.

The patch will soon be available to download when you start up the game and the Duke DLC will be available from PlayStation Store in December.





The Fight: Lights Out is a brand new type of fighting game. It puts your moves and your actions directly into the game, with an unprecedented level of freedom. Your own skill is the only limit.

But as with all great new things, there is, of course, some great new rules and details to learn. Freedom is better when you know what to do with it, so we've put together these little bonus tutorials to help everyone get to grips with this wholly new way to play fighting games.

140w ago - Recently gnie has released Console Stream Media Info v1.0, a nice tool that will allow you to check the stream info frame size, subtitle, audio, video, streamID for PS3 (.pam) and PSP (.pmf and .mps) files.

Download: Console Stream Media Info v1.0

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SubTitleNo)
Audio05)
Video01)

File NameEv01_00_000.pmf)
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Frame Size480 x 272)
SubTitleYes)
Audio01)
Video01)

File NameEv08_01_040.pmf)
File Header IDPSMF0015)
Frame Size480 x 272)
SubTitleYes)
Audio01)
Video01)

File NameICON1.PMF)
File Header IDPSMF0014)
Frame Size144 x 80)
SubTitleNo)
AudioNo Audio)
Video01)

File Namemiddle.pam)
File Header IDPAMF0041)
Frame Size1280 x 720)
SubTitleNo)
Audio02)
Video01)

File Nameopening.pam)
File Header IDPAMF0041)
Frame Size1280 x 720)
SubTitleNo)
Audio01)
Video01)

File Nameresult.pam)
File Header IDPAMF0041)
Frame...