Cell's security vunerability could prove costly for Sony and the Playstation 3. IBM has released the most detailed document to date describing the security architecture of the Cell Broadband Engine that powers Sony's forthcoming Playstation 3. The design is impressive because it represents the first mass-market processor architecture designed from the ground up with security as a major consideration. Cell is not invulnerable to attack, however, and its greatest strength may yet turn out to be the PS3's Achilles heel as a secure content delivery vehicle.
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.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
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.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
S2Killinit
live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
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.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
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.
"The PS3's security architecture is a fixed quantity (= sitting duck), from the general layout and functioning of its various components all the way down to the hardware-stored root key. That single master root key, and the fixed, non-patchable nature of a hardware-based security scheme, means that thousands of very smart, warranty-voiding attackers will have all the time in the world to divine the PS3's innermost secrets. And when just one of those folks has an "aha!" moment and hits on the perfect attack, a forum post somewhere will clue in the rest of the planet. That attack will then work every time, on every PS3, and no OS upgrade or patch will solve the problem.
At that point, it's going to be up to law enforcement to check the spread of the damaging information and to prevent the sale of hardware designed to compromise the PS3."
Didnt M$ say that the Xbox 360 was invulnerable of hacking mods. Thats why as of today there are about 3 or 4 hacking compaines who apparently have hacked mods for the Xbox 360. So basically what this is saying is that all systems/consoles can be hacked, it just takes time to get to know the hardware and work around it to get it fully MODIFIED.
Right the problems for PS3 seem far more problematic then the DVD FW hack on the 360. Which still can be undone or your Live could be enabled by MS.
These security holes for PS3 seem to be unrepairable. That's a major problem there
I dunno why u guys see it as a negative news. Mod chipping PS3 would be the best gift to consumers!! Firstly u can buy BD games for half or less the price of the original selling out in the market. Those games for PS3 are sh!t expensive!! more than the price of the console its the price of the software which is important. I dont care if PS3 were to be $700 or $800, coz that is just a one time purchase. But paying $80 for a game is just insane!! and u are not gonna buy jus one game for the console. And if u guys think that when the console goes bust coz of the modchip my $$$ goes down the drain as sony wont provide support for a modded console, u are wrong!! the advent of a modchip will be seen only after a year or so, by which sony would have streamlined the production. so chances of a failure will be less( lets jus assume!!) and the consumers would go in for the modchip only after they see how many successfully long running mod chipped PS3s are there, so that they dont have to worry of getting their console screwed!! BTW i'm running a ps2 which is mod chipped for 3 years and no probs with it!!( yea, i'll get sued by sony alright!!)
TheMART,
you insult PS3 when Microsoft,
is releasing a 'Flag ship product' known as...wait for it 'Vista'.
(Cliche 551- The name is Spanish for something)
Vista is not only crap, but Leopard (Apple counterpart) looks so much superior one could doubt the existence of Vista.
Vista just changes the look of your Menues, and *Shock* *Horror* gives you a glass effect. w00t !
Please note: Atleast 2Gb of RAM recommended.
OSX > Windows (OSX absolutely PWNs Windows. Not sure about Linux, never tried that)
Leopard > Vista (Leopard not only will have 250+ features, but theyre actually interesting features belive it or not)
Apple > Microsoft (Not only a better OS, better looking computers and mother boards that can handle 16Gb of RAM, but all Apple Macs can now run Windows anyway (If you wish to play games (Why does MS exist again ?)))
PS3 > 360 (Superior games, better online (Suck on it), superior community and more computing power. And dont you give me that 'Power isnt everything.' Thats just BS)
Hehehehe...I love winding up 11 year old whining cry babys.
Everyone, watch now, ill get a lot of pre-pubescant confused children making vain attempting to insult me because unfortunatly, "mummy cannot afford a Apple Mac" and "The PS3 is out of mummys price range, but you can try uncle Bills console"
Hahaha...everyone watch now, theyll be like Flys over sh*t.
Bring it on, little ones.
And one last insult...im not the only one who thinks this
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