171w ago - PlayStation Home Online Community Specialist Locust_Star has posted a hefty update this week, which includes Valentine's Day Events (including SingStar), a Warhawk apartment, Mardi Gras items, Assassin's Creed costumes and the Audi A1!

For North America: There's always at least one event going on in PlayStation Home, no matter what day it is. But this week we ratchet it up about ten notches.

In addition to our daily Featured Game parties, we're bringing you an exclusive Valentine's event (complete with tons of rewards), a special SingStar V-Day-themed shindig, a SOCOM virtual item giveaway in the PlayStation Home Theater (because there's no better way to celebrate the release of the new SOCOM: Fire Team Bravo 3), Mardi Gras content (so you and your krewe can hit Central Plaza in style), and a super secret event taking place in the Central Plaza that you'll simply have to experience firsthand to believe.

But before we dig deep into the details surrounding these incredible events, let's first look at a new personal space crafted specifically for all of you loyal Eucadian and Chernovan troopers that gather with your clans in clubhouses throughout PlayStation Home.

We heard you loud and clear when you told us that you wanted private Sand Tables from which...

171w ago - Today the PS3 hack exploit SX28 hardware arrived, so we can begin work on dumping the PlayStation 3 Hypervisor to examine!

Up to now, both GeoHot and xorloser have successfully performed the PS3 hack while a few others simply obtained GeoHot's PS3 Hypervisor dump to study privately.

Needless to say, the rest of the PS3 scene including most of us here, have been waiting to take a peek at the unencrypted bootloader and Hypervisor lv0 and lv1 dumps.

We started by writing a Ubuntu Guide (as did titanmkd HERE) and attempted to use a 555 timer to obtain the 40ns pulse required to trigger the...

171w ago - Last week PS3 Debug Firmware 3.10 was made available following some older revisions, and today PS3 Debug Firmware Update 3.15 has been added to our PlayStation 3 Downloads section for Test consoles.

Download: PS3 Debug Firmware Update 3.15

This latest PS3 Debug / Test update comes courtesy of a member who wishes to remain anonymous - THANKS for sharing with the community!!

For those curious, in addition to the PSP Emulator Details that are no longer hidden in PS3 Debug Firmware 3.15 comes support for Sony's Data Transfer Utility and of course PS3 / PSP Minis.

As always, if you (or someone you know) has access to other PS3 Debug Firmware updates, or any other related PlayStation 3 files of interest, feel free to Contact Us.

171w ago - Today SCEE's Senior European Product Manager Thach Quach has unveiled the God of War III Ultimate Trilogy Edition PS3 Box alongside some additional details on its contents.

To quote: Following my recent blog post, I'm really excited to share the design of the SCEE God of War III Ultimate Trilogy Edition box with you guys. I hope you like it, let me know your thoughts!

The Ultimate Trilogy Edition can be pre-ordered in selected retailers across Europe, Australia and New Zealand. It's a limited run so make sure you pre-order it before it's sold out!

This very special edition comes in a high-end, sculpted replica of Pandora's Box with an epic outer box which features an acetate window: you can actually see Pandora's box before you even open it!

Once open, you will find the following items:

• God of War III (of course!)
• God of War Collection (gentle reminder, this is God of War and God of War II, remastered in HD, running at 60 fps, with Trophy support, all on one Blu-ray Disc)
• Extra game content downloadable via PlayStation Network:
• God of War Combat Arena containing an exclusive environment and seven challenges to complete
• Dominus character skin
• Apollo character skin
• Phantom of Chaos...

171w ago - Today xorloser has 'propered' the recently released GeoHot PS3 Hack in attempt to accomodate all PlayStation 3 Firmware versions with the exploit.

Download: PS3 Exploit Fixed

To quote: As I'm sure everybody heard, the memory access exploit for the PS3 hypervisor was released recently by geohotz. I was finally able to replicate his hack so I thought I'd take the time to help out others who may also have trouble due to being linux n00bs like me.

If I were to post everything at once it would be too much work and I'd never get around to it, so I'll post bits at a time to ensure I actually do post it heh. Today's post will talk about the software side of the exploit.

Please note that the geohotz exploit software was hardcoded for the v2.42 firmware, I have made a small fix that attempts to dynamically support all firmware versions. I have only tested and used it on v3.15 however.

The first step is to install Linux on your PS3 which means of course that this will not work on a slim PS3. I tried a few different Linux distros and after various different issues I settled on using...