Do you have an iPhone or iOS device and are on Xbox Live? If so, you can now download the My Xbox LIVE on any iOS device released yesterday by Microsoft.
The app is available for free and will allow you to message friends, keep track of games played as well as customize your Achievements and your Avatar. You can even edit your friends list and delete them for good in front of their own eyes.
Via Major Nelson
Courtesy of homebrew developer NTAuthority, you can now use your iPhone and iPod Touch to hack the PS3. The PSFreedom codebase has been ported over, with one not-so-small caveat: it only works on 2G and 3G iPhone models and 1G revisions of the Touch.
Additionally, as this is considered a preliminary release, there’s a little bit of manual labor involved in setting things up, as noted in the supplied readme. Nothing terribly daunting, though: more »
The Librarian of Congress has issued a statement detailing six key exemptions to Digital Millennium Copyright Act — DMCA for short — effectively legalizing the practice of “jailbreaking” mobile phone devices and circumventing select DRM routines under fair use policies — including stripping away CSS protection on commercial DVDs.
While many of these activities were once considered a grey area, they are now fully sanctioned under the DMCA. That is, if your intentions are just. For an overview of the amendments made herein, look below. more »
Famed iPhone hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz — father of the widely-used jailbreak hack — has thrown in the towel. Hotz delivered the news of his departure on his now-defunct Twitter account earlier today, noting that “It was a cool ride, and I’ve learned a lot about a lot. Perhaps one of these days i’ll do a more formal goodbye.”
Apart from his well-publicized stint with hacking the iPhone, Hotz also dabbled in the PS3 hacking scene. His efforts eventually prompted Sony to remove OtherOS functionality from non-slimline units, nixing the ability to run third-party operating systems such as Linux.
Hotz later promised to bring back OtherOS through circumvention of the PS3′s security system. While the feat was teased in a YouTube video last April, it never materialized.
Hotz gave insight into the motivating factor behind his sudden exit in a blog post earlier today. The site itself has since been taken offline — at least for public viewing. more »
Hulu has announced today that it will be starting a new subscription-based service entitled “Hulu Plus” which will bring the popular video streaming service to a variety of new devices. Hulu Plus however will run $9.99 a month which will give you access to Hulu on a number of different devices, including the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, as well as access to HD content and entire seasons of popular TV shows.
The PS3 will be receiving Hulu Plus next month while the Xbox 360 receiving it sometime in 2011. Hulu Plus is currently in “preview” on your PC and Apple devices (iPhone/iPod/iPad) and you can request an invite here.
Originally released on PS2, XS Games has announced that its top-down shooter and beat ‘em up mashup is slated to hit PSP and iPhone. The handheld edition is due for a facelift, with the developer promising a “fresh visual polish” in addition to “improved controls.” more »
As one of the most addictive and well constructed offerings in the RPG space, Final Fantasy is a prestigious household name that needs no introduction. In an effort to expand its offerings in the mobile market, Square Enix decided to take a trip down memory lane, giving iPhone and iPod Touch users an innovative new way to play Final Fantasy I and II – on a touchscreen.
As part of an effort to reinforce its emphasis on digital distribution, THQ announced today that it has renamed its Juice Games and Rainbow Studios development studios to THQ Digital Studios Warringtonand and Phoenix. The two studios will focus their attention towards driving THQ’s presence in the vast and rapidly-growing market of digital distribution.
Specifically, their development duties will entail working on THQ’s “core game brands,” in addition to assisting in the creation of new original intellectual properties. THQ says the first games from both studios are slated for a release in the company’s fiscal 2011 year. As you’d expect, the games are due out on across a variety of digital-focused outlets and platforms, including Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, iPhone, and iPad.
George Hotz, the man behind the infamous jailbreak hack for iPhone, has released his PS3 exploit to the public. Still very primitive, it takes advantage of OtherOS, granting unrestricted access to system memory. It was specifically tested on firmware 2.42, but Hotz notes that it should work on all system software revisions to date. That said, it isn’t geared towards end users and likewise, is far from ready for prime time. At the very least, you could call it a start.
Seeing as Sony nixed OtherOS support on slimline models, this achievement means little for new PS3 owners. However, if history is any indication, further research obtained from Hotz’s research could very well lead to opening more doors. Time will tell. Hotz, for his part, is bowing out of the scene in hopes that others will pick up from where he left off, noting that “I have a life to get back to and can’t keep working on this all day and night.”
While the PS3′s defenses against unauthorized code have remained impenetrable up until now, hacker Geohot of iPhone fame claims he is the first to discover an exploit, a feat that will no doubt garner the attention of Sony. In a post on his personal blog, Geohot touts that he has managed to outsmart the PS3′s privileged-based hypervisor security system and gain “read/write access to the entire system memory” in addition to “HV level access to the processor.” more »
