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 ...

Custom modded consoles, though not nearly as common as their PC counterparts, are nothing new. From simple paint jobs to full blown extreme makeovers, there is no shortage of great looking tricked out ...

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 ...

After Sony's somewhat bizarre "security" related decision to block Other OS installation on the original PS3 consoles with the next scheduled firmware update, hacker George Hotz – who some believe ...

Geohot, who is well known for his iPhone jailbreaking, has released a custom firmware tool for the PS3. This new firmware will eventually allow for non-official firmware to run on the PS3, opening up ...

Following the news that the PS3 had been hacked and that the keys to the kingdom were thrown to the proletariat, it has now been announced that you can now install your own custom Firmware. Something ...

Earlier on it was reported that hackers had released the first custom PS3 firmware. Tools from ‘KaKaRoTo’ allowed users to create their own firmware using Linux and some coding knowledge, but it ...

With all the news about breached security, homebrew and Sony taking hackers to court, the underlying allure of installing custom firmware on the PS3 is still something a lot of people are interested ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Sony has created custom PlayStation 3 hardware to power its newly ...

Ok, you've downloaded your PS3 2.00 update right? Good, so why not create a custom theme? Go ahead, call in sick, and give Brent's guide a whirl just beyond that read link. He dug out the official PS3 ...

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 ...