Execs at PrimeSense, the creators of Kinect have revealed their ultimate ambition for the future. The goal is "for humans and devices to live seamlessly side-by-side, so that we don't have to do anything special for devices to work." Thus if Kinect is a success, then expect this controling mechanism to be creeping into a lot of household entertainment devices.
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A retailer of PSJailbreak has provided an updated regarding the 'official' product. It is claimed that the makers are now doing an 'upgrade' to their device to respond to potential action by Sony and also prevent it from being cloned by cloners. Thus the shipment date has changed to September 7th-10th. Although the same retailer is also very controversially charging people that cancel pre-orders a fee of 10 percent.
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Incredible stuff, the iPhone is poised to become the next device to enable the PS3 hack PSGroove. A tweet by 'MuscleNerd' of the iPhone Dev Team (Jailbreakme) has revealed that an Apple mediated jailbreak of the PS3 is close using the iPhone. MuscleNerd, with over 100,000 followers adds "Sony please sue Apple". Keep reading to check out the video inside! Remember you can follow Maxconsole too on Twitter @Maxconsoletweet.
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Funny how such BS gains traction so fast online. An Italian website who claimed that Sony has started banning PSJailbreak users is in fact posting fake info. The post was first made in late August, and uses an old screen from PSN that is two years old. See all the 'drama' here.
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Those Teensy boards have become incredibly hard to obtain, so folks have been looking at various other alternatives. One 'new' alternative is the use of a Bumble-B Mini USB dev kit. An engineer from the Dingoo team claims it is possible to use the respective piece of kit, and produce them for around $5 each. You can keep a track of the Dingoo engineer's progress at this thread.
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An interesting video has emerged from Bungie's panel at this year's PAX Prime. Bungie showed off a little video showcasing what Halo: Reach looked like in its early development stages. What you'll see in the video is sort of a Halo: Reach cinematic montages- without the graphics.It's interesting to witness what a game looks like while in development.
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A new video has emerged on YouTube which was intended on showing off a couple of new maps for Treyarch's latest edition to the CoD franchise, Black Ops, which was interesting, but that's not the reason why this video has become so popular. During the first part of the video, you'll notice a player holding an assault rifle... with a Flame Thrower (about a minute in)! That's right, the Flame Throwers that were a "must-have" during World at War's multiplayer matches will be making a grand return, sort of.
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I have heard from a good source about Sony's next move to combat the PS3 hack (from an Australian source). This is what he told me - "I heard Sony is holding back new supply of consoles, as they are removing dev and debug modes. this means you cannot get consoles easily fixed in repair centres so no more extended warranties. THIS MEANS PSJB AND PSGROOVE WILL NO LONGER WORK ON NEW CONSOLES". Moreover, it is expected that the new 320GB PS3's will have firmware loaded onto the HDD and encrypted in a way that will not allow you to copy games to a new HDD as it will be locked to the retail HDD.
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Now this is very interesting news that can possible render all other ports being working on quite useless. The folks over at Elotrolado have started on working on trying to get ported to the Sixaxis/Dualshock3. This surely belongs in the highly exciting and highly useful category.
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Dingo owners have another reason to be happy as Waninkoko completes his port of the ps3groove to the dingoo, at present i believe he's looking for beta testers. On his Twitter account, he posted the following - "You have a Dingoo (with Dingux) and a PS3? Contact me :P (private message......." So it looks like the Dingoo will join the N900 and potentially PSP in the category of PS3 hack enablers.
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Not really gaming news (and probably a little half-assed) but these are just too sexy to pass up, if you can get them that is. A member has pointed out that Walmart are currently offering the Resident Evil series on Blu-Ray complete with super sexy exclusive steelbook covers. Come on in and take a look.
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The OpenPSJailbreak team has tweeted a 'warning' regarding the PS3 'stealth' backup manager. The respective team suggest that it is not that secure because there is still hardcoded information in the backup manager app. Therefore they claim they best way avoid a ban is to simply not play online. Full break-down inside.
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Forever's new release is no joke, Duke shows up at PAX 2010 with a playable demo to stomp some heads! Continue reading to watch some streaming gameplay directly from the show, vehicles included...
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Since the release of PSGroove, hackers have increased their efforts to get the hack loadable via alternative devices. Understandably, attentions have turned to the PSP and a proof of concept has been released. Essentially, the hackers have managed to get the PSP recognized as a USB hub which could eventually load the exploit on the PS3. Although a couple of hours ago Mathieulh stated on his Twitter that "The more we look at it, the harder it is to come up with a PSP port". You can follow Maxconsole on Twitter @Maxconsoletweet.
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Now this is really taking the p*ss! The Nokia N900 hack for the PS3 is truly real and existance as evidenced by the release of the source code. The developer of the alternative hack has also recently released a video of his Nokia N900 being used to hack the PS3 of which you can view inside. The ultimate 'hacking tool' would perhaps be the Microsoft Zune... we can see the headlines now 'MS hacks Sony's PS3!'
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According to third party reports, the US military has 'banned' Medal of Honor due to its inclusion of the Taliban. The 'ban' really relates to Gamestop stores located in 49 of its American bases and camps. Not wanting to mess with the military, Gamestop understandably agreed to remove the title from sale in these sensitive regions.
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Sure Gran Turismo is one of those iconic racing franchises, although would any of you out there really agree that it is something the genre 'absolutely needs'? Those are the words of a Sony VP. Specifically on the PS3, there is nothing quite like it (When GT 5 comes out), so from that perspective we think they have a point. Let's just hope it really lives up to expecations.
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Still sitting on the fence about PSN Plus? Well perhaps knowing what's in store for October might help. If you like PSOne classic Syphon Filter, Premium Avatars and Street Fighter 2 HD Remix, then perhaps it's time to dig deep into your pockets.
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From the interesting and short shelf-life development. A hacker by the name of 'Keytor69' has released a 'PS3 Stealth Backup Manager'. Essentially, the tool disguises PS3 backups as Modern Warfare 2 and tricks the system. This is said to make it much more difficult for Sony to ban folks... at least until the next firmware update arrives. Expect to see many more tools and the likes once the cat and mouse games really begin.
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