Here is what I call PS3 Acid CFW, an XMB custom firmware XML hack pack for the PlayStation 3 console. I spend the last days in playing around with PS3 FW files and have modified some of them and ...

Following up on the previous version, today PlayStation 3 homebrew developer Rogero has updated his PS3 Custom Firmware to version 3.7 for 3.55 CFW users with details on the changes outlined below. 1- ...

The PlayStation 3 has long been a popular plaything for modders due to the ability to run Linux on the hardware, a feature Sony has since removed, supposedly out of fear of software piracy.

The PlayStation 3 has been hacked before, originally with the PSJailbreak dongle and fail0verflow, but Sony managed to fight back with Firmware 3.60 which managed to ingeniously resecure the console.

Who needs George Hotz anyway? A USB modchip for the PS3 has emerged from the mists this morning, purporting to allow the dumping of games onto nearby storage -- the console's internal HDD and external ...

New device purports to allow gamers to play their games without the optical Blu-ray discs, instead just playing them off a hard drive. With more than 15 years experience testing hardware (and being ...

After Sony's somewhat bizarre "security" related decision to block Other OS installation on the original PS3 consoles with the next scheduled firmware update, hacker George Hotz – who some believe ...

With all the news about breached security, homebrew and Sony taking hackers to court, the underlying allure of installing custom firmware on the PS3 is still something a lot of people are interested ...

Check out three ways to use a USB drive to do useful things like transfer media files and saved-game data. Sharon Profis Former Vice President of Content, CNET Studios As vice president of CNET ...

In our first look at the PlayStation 3's media playback features, we initially the system to be limited by its directory structure design -- unless media was stored in the proper folder, it would not ...