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Downgrading PlayStation 3 Firmware May ‘Brick’ Console

AOTFB: The PlayStation 3 has been compromised but new hacking techniques may brick your console. Security has been overrun and it's now an eventuality as to when hackers will access the custom firmwares and digital signing of non official packages to be placed on any PS3 XMB. As stated previously, this opens the door to piracy, and other potential security breaches. But bewarned potential PlayStation 3 hacker, fake custom firmwares are circulating around the internet and some of them may even brick your beloved console

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Loner5641d ago (Edited 5641d ago )

If your stupid enough to download a fake firmware then you deserve it.Its not too hard to find geohots site and get the official one

Best5641d ago

Since downgrading to 3.41 is considered an upgrade than I will take the risk.

Best5641d ago

Also if Sony wasn't so dumb with their private key then they would not be in this issue of fighting the hackers.

Godmars2905641d ago

Unlike MS with the 360, Nintendo with the Wii or Apple with the iPhone. All of them just put welcome with "Please Hack Us" on their OS as far as hackers were concerned.

If hackers had come up with some usable apps while other OS was still up instead of trying to pirate games this argument wouldn't even exist.

jerethdagryphon5641d ago

the official ... hacked firmware hrmmm thats a twist like getting an official dvd rip

not happening better term to use would be trusted release

WildArmed5641d ago

lmfao +bubs

Now that's an oxymoron.
Official hacked firmware.

ATi_Elite5641d ago (Edited 5641d ago )

I said this awhile ago when GeoNOT got deeper into the PS3 that Sony if they wanted to could brick a PS3 with massive firmware updates.

The only way around it is to leave it off the internet.
Sony could force auto update the second it connects to the internet and they could run code to brick modded PS3's.

Loner5641d ago

That might be illegal

Arnon5641d ago

That is illegal. Also, anything can brick a console. *cough* even Sony's own firmware updates *cough*

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MGRogue20175641d ago (Edited 5641d ago )

obvious much?

Downgrading your console is just asking for trouble as it is..

despair5641d ago

bet some people who get bricked PS3s after this will have the gall to blame Sony :)

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Final Fantasy X 25th Anniversary Website Launches With New Nomura Artwork and Merchandise

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.

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-Foxtrot52d ago

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.

solideagle52d ago

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

Relientk7752d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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15 Years Ago, Mortal Kombat (2011) Saved Gaming’s Biggest Fighting Franchise

A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.

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italiangamer61d ago

"Gaming’s Biggest Fighting Franchise"

Press X to (seriously) doubt.

DarXyde59d ago

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.

Soy59d ago

And then MK1 killed it again.

DivineHand12559d ago (Edited 59d ago )

15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.

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PlayStation legend Shuhei Yoshida says Jim Ryan fired him because he didn't listen to him

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.

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Relientk7761d ago

Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.

Cacabunga60d ago

It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst

S2Killinit60d ago (Edited 60d ago )

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.

neutralgamer199260d ago

S2Killinit

live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating

Cacabunga60d ago

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

1nsomniac60d ago (Edited 60d ago )

..."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.

medman60d ago

Hulst is a disaster......

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blacktiger60d ago

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.

Outside_ofthe_Box60d ago

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.

robtion60d ago

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.

darthv7260d ago

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.

Agent7560d ago

Microflop. After Windows XP and Xbox 360, it all went floppy.

S2Killinit60d ago

Floppy 😆
No pun intended

badz14960d ago

Yoshida for President! Jim Ryan was and always be a hack! Sony should get Shu back

Lightning7760d ago

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.

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