95w ago - Boolat Games CEO Alexander Chigorin has confirmed today that 4 Elements HD will be hitting PSN Tuesday complete with PlayStation Move support and has shared a video trailer below.

To quote: I'm happy to share that Boolat Games has partnered with Playrix Entertainment to bring 4 Elements HD - packed with of PS3-exclusive content - to the PlayStation Store on August 30th.

Exciting news! The story takes place in a vast and ancient kingdom where evil forces have corrupted the balance between the four elements causing the altar of life to run dry. You have to unlock four ancient books of magic, collect 16 mysterious cards and restore this kingdom to life.

Here are few things you'll appreciate about 4 Elements HD. Imagine the addictive Matching gameplay where you freely draw the chains of same-colored pieces instead of just moving one piece next to another.





It feels and plays like an arcade game and it works great on PS3! We've added explosive bonuses, spectacular visual effects in full HD resolution, and intuitive controls using DualShock 3 or PlayStation Move.

Probably some of you saw or even tried the original game, but 4 Elements HD is...

95w ago - Following up on the previous release, here are a few more PS3 NFW (Newbie Firmware) update downloads for those interested from bitsbubba which include version 3 and Cobra USB support as outlined below:

PS3 NFW (Newbie Friendly Ware) 3.55 v3 / PS3 NFW v3 PKG Pack / PS3 LV2 Patcher BD Region Changer / PS3 NFW LV2 Patcher BD Region Changer / PS3 NFW 3.55 v3 Cobra USB (Cobra USB Required)

PS3 NFW v3 Features Enabled:

• Change PUP build / version
  
• Patch LV1 hypervisor - Allow mapping of any memory area (Needed for LV2 Poke)
  
• Patch LV2 kernel - Patch to add Peek&Poke system calls to LV2
  
• Patch package installer - allow installation of pseudo-retail (geohot) packages, allow installation of debug packages
  
• Patch Application launcher - Patch to allow running of unsigned applications
  
• Add "The Homebrew Channel" category to the XMB
  
• Rename "app_home/PS3_GAME" to "Start Game (disc-less)"

97w ago - It's been awhile since his last release, but today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Andreas Oman is back with Showtime PS3 Media Player 3.1.126 which includes real Plugin support!

Download: Showtime PS3 Media Player 3.1.126 PKG / Showtime PS3 Media Player 3.1.126 SELF / Showtime PS3 Media Player Plugin Docs / Showtime PS3 Swedish Translation / Showtime PS3 Translations / Showtime PS3 Translations Guide / GIT

To quote: This release contains the new online plugin repository. Still there are no other plugins that previously available but we will hopefully see some new plugins coming in shortly.

On top of this the new release also includes translations of Showtime...

102w ago - Today deank has made available a preview version of multiMAN v02.01.00 for PS3 which includes multilingual support.

Download: MultiMAN v02.01.00 PS3 Preview with Multilingual Support

To quote: I also added check if the language files are up to date and compatible to avoid problems.

Always check language.cpp if you’re uncertain for some labels.

For example, there are two labels named “Other”. First for alphabetical grouping and second for “other” genre. In English both are the same, but in most languages it may be different.

Change Log:

• Includes LANG_DEFAULT.TXT with 239 labels (genres, retro roms, XMMB column labels)
  

List of Languages Supported:

• 0, 2,“EN”,“English”, “English” ,
  
• 1,2,“BG”, “Bulgarian”, “Български,
  
• 2,2, “RU”, “Russian”, “Русский” ,
  
• 3,2, “RO”,“Romanian”, “Romana” ,
  
• 4,5, “TR”, “Turkish”, “Turkce” ,
  
• 5,2,...

105w ago - You can now update to multiMAN PS3 Backup Manager version 02.00.05, which includes extended support for the PlayStation 3 BD Remote Controller among the changes detailed below.

multiMAN 2.00.05 Changes:

• Changed: Coverflow mode completely rewritten to use XMMB engine
  
• Changed: Coverflow shows covers in perspective
  
• Changed: Better memory management
  
• Changed: XMMB display mode visualization
  
• Changed: Caching only of Photo, Music and Retro XMMB columns with their actual size (faster boot and exit/restart) (16MB HDD space freed)
  
• Added: Option in XMMB Settings column "XMMB Game Icon Swap" to select mode for covers/icons for Game column
  
• Added: Options in XMMB Settings column "Key Repeat Delay" and "Key Repeat Speed"
  
• Added: Launch .zip ROMs from File Manager (from emulator folders or dev_hdd0 or dev_usb00* ./ROMS/[emulator])
  
• Added: Support for FBA Next emulator (port mods by squarepusher2)
  
• Fixed: PPU crashreport about MultiStream on exit (thanks to an0nymous for the backtrace log)
  
• Fixed: Minor issues when applying themes
  
• Fixed: Minor issues/garbage with boot screen on rare occasions
  
• Removed: Use of virtual memory
  

MP3/Audio related:

• Changed: MP3...