As a follow-up to the recently posted Guide on unnbanning 8955 XBox 360 consoles from Live comes another countermeasure against HDD crippling.

Godzivan has made available an XBox 360 NAND write protection diagram which simply write-protects the NAND Flash in the XBox 360 by connecting WP to a ground pin.

To quote: "While this modification will certainly be against the terms...

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Two weeks ago Microsoft started mass bans on modified XBox 360 consoles to prevent them from using XBox Live.

With up to 1 million accounts disabled, hackers including C4Eva have been working on a solutions including iXtreme LT.

Until iXtreme Lite Touch is available, k0mpresd has shared a guide for unbanning your 8955 XBox 360 console from XBox Live, as follows:

What you...

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Just over a week ago it was reported that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for XBox 360 was leaked early to the Internet.

Since then, a pirate who advertised his services of Modern Warfare 2 and an XBox 360 before the street launch of the game has been busted by Activision with the help of an online detective they hired.

Apparently the whole process took less than a...

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It appears Microsoft is now including the most recent major Dashboard Update on new game discs, specifically the Summer/Fall 09 update that brings the NXE dash to 8498.

As a result, they are closing the exploit used for the Free60 JTAG/SMC XeLL (Linux homebrew) hack.

To quote: "The first game confirmed to have this update on the disc is Cars Race-O-Rama. They...

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Sony's PlayStation Store Senior Manager Grace Chen is back with this week's PSN update, as follows:

Hi Everyone – It’s time for the weekly PlayStation Store Update.

Updates
• Brain Challenge Price Drop (now $4.99)
• Brain Challenge Expansion Pack Price Drop (now $1.99)
• Droplitz Temporary Price Drop (now $4.99)
• 25 Guitar Hero...

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Capcom announced today that two titles on display at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show will be coming to North America and Europe in 2010.

New Capcom titles Sengoku BASARA Samurai Heroes and Ghost Trick (working title for North America and Europe), displayed to the Japanese public for the first time in Tokyo, will be making the transition to western gamers next year.

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Sony PlayStation Home Online Community Specialist Locust_Star has shared a SingStar PlayStation Home teaser video today, to quote:

Aspiring rock stars can breathe a sigh of relief – SingStar is finally coming to PlayStation Home this Thursday, September 24. And to top it off, we’re kicking off the launch with an extra special event.

Those of you who visit the new...

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Back in June, iQD and me worked on a PC client messenger to write with people who are online via their PS3 in the PlayStation Network.

Well, the sad truth is: The PSN uses a token system which we could not reverse fully yet. The most is done server- and firmware-side so nearly impossible except we could decrypt and analyse several firmware .sprx files.

Anyway, now we...

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PlayStation Store Senior Manager Grace Chen is back with this week's PSN update, as follows:

It’s time for the weekly PlayStation Store Update.

Dynamic Themes debuted on Tuesday with the LittleBigPlanet Dynamic Theme, and today three additional Dynamic Themes are releasing on the PlayStation Store: PixelJunk Monsters, PAIN and High Velocity Bowling.

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The PSP Go release date just around the corner, and it seems Sony is pretty determined to prevent the hacking community from tinkering with their brand new handheld by releasing various firmware updates.

French site PSPGen is reporting that Sony has already released a brand new Beta version of PSP Firmware 6.0 for official developers to test their games and adapt with the brand...

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