What you’re about to read is far from a wide-ranging concern. But it does highlight one legitimate reason Sony has for going after PS3 users installing their own ...

Sony has created custom PlayStation 3 hardware to power its newly announced streaming service PlayStation Now, sources with knowledge of the project have told Digital Foundry at Eurogamer. This custom ...

PlayStation 3 and iPhone hacker GeoHot has released a video that seems to show custom firmware running on Sony's hardware. He also believes this may enable Linux on Slim PlayStation 3 units. To quote ...

Some tools released online overnight claim to allow the installation of “custom firmware” on a PlayStation 3. Capitalising on the work done last week by the fail0verflow team in breaking the PS3 wide ...

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After taking Sony to task for yanking "Other OS" support from the PS3 in their latest firmware update, v3.21, George Hotz – aka geohot – has followed up on his promise to develop a custom firmware ...

Building upon the exploits of the fail0verflow hacking troupe, a tinkerer known as "KaKaRoToKS" has got the first "custom firmware" (CFW) running on PS3. The modification can be applied to any version ...

Noted iPhone and PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz, or GeoHot, told the gaming community not to update their systems until he was able to release custom firmware allowing them to continue using their ...