
Spanish PS3 developers at DemonHades have shared some details and pics of a PS3 Blu-ray drive successfully connected and recognized as a reader in a PC.

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.

Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
I could let PS3 share its BD drive out to the PC without having to tear our the drive from the PS3.
Interesting development this.
If they could manage to dump the PS3 drives firmware and do similar development on the firmware reading backups as the hackers did with the 360 DVD drive firmware, then it would be a huge step for the hacking community.
But then again, the BluRay drive firmware and chipset is totally different to DVD drives, thus it remains to be seen if, how and when this can be realized. But then again, its easier probably than a full softmod solution for the PS3. BluRay discs have become pretty cheap over time and BluRay burners also aren't as expensive as they used to, so interest will rise for being able to play backups on the PS3 I guess. The days that BluRay discs were 20, 30 or 40 bucks it wasn't logical at all to burn instead of buy originals.
Hopefully this is as far as it'll go, I just wish hackers would piss off and stay away from the PS3, they're ruining it for the rest of us.
RIP Linux.
"Today Sony Computer Entertainment has announced the removal of the PS3 Blu-Ray Drive for Security Reasons". Stay Tuned