As you all may well know, Sony’s PlayStation 3 was hacked by a group known as Failoverflow. What’s immediately going to jump out to most people is the idea that it could (and likely will) cause piracy. But, however, is that the end of the story?
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.
whoa a reasonable discussion at hand??
lets see how this compares to a blog that calls Hackers the "scum of the gaming industry"
i can see how pirating the PS3 in other regions where you can sell bootlegged copies of games, but in N.America and Europe as well as many other places, its too easy to find a torrent site and D/L a game....this hack hasnt gotten this far, but all you need is a knowledgeable developer or programmer to make it work and just release it on the net
these hackers condone piracy, but being open source leaves to abuse of the programming and thats when people take advantage of a system and its games...i still dont understand how cheating or hacking is fun unless you find trolling fun and pissing off gamers who dont care about their K/D ratio and just want to have fun
And that's just the thing -- Why should anyone really care about this hack here? If you're against it, don't do it. Buy your games like you would and shut the **** up. Buy those EA games at 60 bucks when you know they should be 9.99. That's your right to do so. If you don't want to hack your system, by all means don't do it. You have no right to tell me or anyone else what we should do with our hardware, though. And you're no better for being against it as I am for being for it.
Don't get all huffy and puffy about others who want this to go down for the right reasons. Those being the choice to open our Ps3's up and run apps that make sense to us. Apps that can change our Ps3's into a system "we" like, rather than a system Sony likes.
The Ps3 should've been open from day one. PC's are -- Why not the Ps3? I haven't seen too many PC's running the same software or themes -- Why? Because they allow us to stylize the units to our taste.
Sony should've done the same.
I want the choice to move my xmb icons around. To hide the ones I don't use. To take trophy support away. To install apps to the xmb that allows more codec for video playback -- MKV anyone?
This is my system, I bought one and another was bought for me, I want to do what I want to do with it. And none of what I want to do involves stealing games or downloading them. I don't care about the game side of this -- I care about the app side of it. If a game is good enough I'll buy it -- If it's not I won't not only not buy it, but I won't even give it a second look. Why would I want to steal it if it sucks? I wouldn't and nobody else would either.
People who are crying about this are conformist.
Hackers have a need to show their skills, the "how's" to how they accomplished said hack. They love posting and making declarations. What no one seems to understand is there are corporately paid "hackers" working on the security themselves, reading these "How To's" and following their methods (which were most likely planted by Sony) to close any holes. Look at the USB jailbreak...tons of hacks, all kinds of info on how to, all kinds of tutorials...and now they are useless. People can hold onto the "master" key all they want, it's not THE master, it's A master. Big difference.
EDIT: Bubbles back joeorc! I just had cookies, so I'm good! :)
This is the best way to describe the joke of these "homebrew enthusiast" (crackers).
"The group involved say they are vehemently anti-piracy, and have no intention whatsoever to pirate any games. However, they have let the cat out of the bag. If said group were so concerned about piracy, then they would not have allowed the code to go up into the public domain. Therefore, as a completely neutral observer, I find it difficult to believe such words."
What load of B.S they said.
I dont know why PS3 fanboys are crying so much.This will cause an increase in hardware sales and who knows the PS3 might finally get out of last place because of it