67w ago - Sony Senior Producer Harvard Bonin has shared a video today spotlighting the new Starhawk PS3 Beta 1.3 update, which features 32 players, tanks, jetbikes and more!

To quote: Finally, the day has come. We're launching our Beta Update 1.3 today! We're really happy with this new content and we hope you like it, too. Check out this video to see what I'm talking about...

Since our Starhawk Beta launched in November, we've collected soooo much great info. The bugs found would never been nailed down without your efforts and we are confident we'll be giving you one of the best online experiences on PS3 with the final version of the game.

Many balance and feature changes were made as a direct result of player testing. Please accept a sincere "THANK YOU!" from our team.

We have one final big step to make before release. Update 1.3 includes a bunch of new features and fixes including:





32 Player Map: Planet Dust

If you thought 8 vs 8 was fun, things just got EPIC!

Sidewinder Jetbike

This vehicle is all about speed, speed, and more speed. As it's a very hard target to hit, use the Sidewinder for quick hit and run attacks, fast road kills,...

73w ago - Today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Redsquirrel87 has updated the unofficial Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack to version v3.3.409 with the changes detailed below.

Download: PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.409

PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.409 Changelog:

• Merge pull request #62 from wader/osx_fixes
  
• osx: spotlight: Assign ctype properly
  
• Fix uninitialized warning
  
• osx: spotify: Fix logic and cleanup configure arg
  
• Update Bulgarian translation
  
• Various fixes for libav 0.8
  
• Update German translation
  
• Update Italian translation
  

Andreas Oman has done some important announcements:

• An automatic build system is nearing completion
  
• He will be leaving on a six week vacation and during that period he will not do any PS3 related development
  

This essentially will have two important consequences on these unofficial builds:

1. Obviously, if there will be no update to Showtime's source code then there will be no need to compile new builds, so in the next 6 weeks you may not find new builds here.

2. When the automatic build system will be completed...

73w ago - Following up on the previous update, PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Redsquirrel87 has now released v3.3.401 of the unofficial Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack with the changes detailed below.

Download: PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.401 / PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.401 (Mirror)

PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.401 Changelog:

• Include Showtime's spotify appkey in the build
  
• Update Swedish translation
  
• Make it possible to configure if Showtime is to include all .srt files from a directory
  
• httpapi: Some commented out helpers for memory fragmentation diag.
  
• ps3: Don't play h264 constrained baseline using the cell accelerated decoder (it does not work)
  
• Add some more blacklisted file-endings (.exe and .tmp)
  

79w ago - PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Redsquirrel87 has released Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack version 3.3.328 today, which offers the following updates as detailed below:

Download: PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.328

PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.328 Changelog:

• js: Add createMultiOpt() to the settings object and fix various race conditions.
  
• Make settings_create_multiopt() accept prop_courier argument like the rest of the settings does
  
• Clear callback when setting is destroyed
  
• Add prop_courier_create_lockmgr()
  
• Make prop_get_name() thread safe
  
• settings: Avoid duplicate init for integer settings
  
• Add setting_detach()
  
• Update Russian translation
  
• Update trad. Chinese translation
  
• Change some pthread_ into hts_
  
• Fix support for 5.0 audio
  
• js: Load raw js code from a detached thread to avoid blocking the main thread
  
• Better support for truncating text
  
• Add some code for loading raw javascript from commandline
  
• Correctly deal with SQLITE_LOCKED in blobcache
  
• Update Italian translation
  

79w ago - This weekend PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Redsquirrel87 has updated Showtime PS3 Media Player Repack to version 3.3.312, which includes the following changes outlined below:

Download: PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.312

PS3 Showtime Media Player Repack v3.3.312 Changelog:

• glw: Make image loaders load expired images from cache if they are available.
  
• Merge pull request #57 from cocoon/master
  
• If Video-Option "Stretch to fullscreen" is on, don't shrink movie proportional, this fills the screen with the complete movie. So there should be no black
  
• Add Video-Option for Fullscreen-Stretch (no black bars / not proportional)
  
• Update src/video/video_settings.h