174w ago - Today we added several older DECH (PS3 Debug / Test) PUP updates to our PS3 Debug / Test Firmware archive for collectors.

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Downloads: PS3 Debug Firmware v2.00 / PS3 Debug Firmware v2.10 / PS3 Debug Firmware v2.17 / PS3...

175w ago - Update: The God of War III 250GB PS3 Bundle packshot has now been added below courtesy of the sleuths at Examiner.com.

Today PlayStationLifestyle.net (linked above) has spotted a Heavy Rain 250GB PS3 bundle on French retailer Amazon.fr, with both a MAG PS3 bundle and a God of War III PS3 bundle also being listed but currently lacking packshots.

Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain PlayStation 3 bundle (pictured below) is scheduled to arrive on February 24, 2010, and to quote:

"A new PS3 bundle has been unveiled for France, a Heavy Rain bundle will be released on February 24.

The PlayStation 3 bundle will include a 250 GB PS3 Slim and a standard Heavy Rain copy, all for 349 Euros ($498/£304).

Amazon.fr also has listings for MAG and God of War III PS3 bundles, but neither of them are accompanied by a pack shot like the Heavy Rain box below."

175w ago - Sony's Social Media Manager Jeff Rubenstein has announced that the God of War III PS3 information drought is officially over, and shared some additional GoW III (rumored to be released on March 19, 2010) details and pictures today.

To quote: It's not often that buzz builds behind a news embargo, but judging by comments on the Blog, it seems a lot of you have been looking forward to hearing more about God of War III today.

I'm happy to report that with the release of these screens and impressions of the game from last month's New York preview event, you'll be seeing GoW III updates much more frequently.

Back to last months' event, we've been dying to share what we saw since we first laid eyes on this Titan-riding, boss-fighting segment of the game.

If the wait until God of War III's March release seems unbearable, I'm right there with you. We're almost there, and we have MAG, White Knight Chronicles, and Heavy Rain to tide us over until then.

175w ago - Here is the first minor demo video of our Community Custom Firmware (CCFW) for the Nintendo Wii console.

Theme is taken from DVBisOk and also he hase made some new layout hacks. For this demo I just have changed the text of the buttons in the settings menu. But I want to do some more like delating the system update and online update function.

Changing the FW branding. Mainly to time its not possible in case of a unknown Lz7 format for the Wii "wwwlib-rvl.lz7" file. This is the Wii libs and im pretty sure the version will be stored in there.

But anyway maybe its possible to hack the .js and .html files to swap a self-made image or hardcoded version and id branding on the same place.

Uhmm yea, it is called community because I do not really have a source code or something else. Instead of that I just put the best things from the community and compile it to one great installable CFW.

I'm sure there are more plz out what can do the job much better then me. But in a special case it seems that no one want it to do. So... I will do.

Also if it is possible I want to add priiloader as a fixed part of the CCFW so that you simply install a bunch of wads and your save. In case that you allready have bootmii as boot2 installed you then have 2 reall great backdoors...

175w ago - Update: The offical US God of War Box Art is below, and GamersMint.com has also posted what is believed to be the final God of War European (PAL) PS3 Box Art.

Today SCEA Product Marketing Specialist Ken Chan has shared a video promoting their God of War: Unearthing the Legend for the Ultimate Fan contest, and IndianVideoGamer.com has uncovered the US GOW3 box art (pictured below).

To quote: The God of War Ultimate Fan Contest is off to an amazing start! We've seen anything from our fans showing off their Kratos tattoo, best of GOW moments with Lego animated films, to just simple video submissions of why they thought Kratos was so bad a$$!!!

To further fuel your interest and excitement in having your fan video submission and name forever immortalized within God of War III Ultimate Edition, here's a sneak peek at the official documentary God of War: Unearthing the Legend.

Hosted by American film/stage actor and historic lecturer, Peter Weller (RoboCop, Engineering an Empire) God of War: Unearthing the Legend takes the viewer...[/U]