Bethesda: We Can't Make Dawnguard Work On the PS3

September 1st, 2012, 20:03 Posted By: wraggster

PS3 gamers may now never get access to the content in Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC. That's the news coming out of Bethesda via their forums. Administrator and global community lead Gstaff posted an update on the state of PS3 DLC for the game, and it's not looking great. Gstaff explains that releasing sizeable DLC is a complex issue, and it seems like for the PS3 it might be just a bit too complex. No detail is given as to what the specific problem is, but Bethesda is preparing PS3 gamers for the reality thatDawnguard, and for that matter any other Skyrim DLC, may never reach the platform. I'd like to know what the exact problem is they can't overcome, but I'd also like to know if this is a failing on Bethesda's part or a shortcoming of the PS3 architecture. Maybe Sony should pay Bethesda a visit and see what's going on."In other Skyrim news, a mod for the game that attempted to recreate J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, has received a Cease & Desist letter from Warner Bros, causing development to stop.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/0...ork-on-the-ps3

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Skyrim DLC may never make it to PS3

September 1st, 2012, 22:11 Posted By: wraggster

Bethesda has admitted that Dawnguard, the first DLC expansion forThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, may never make it to PlayStation 3 due to technical problems encountered in development.
Those playing Bethesda's sprawling RPG on PS3 have long since accepted they drew the short straw. Shortly after Skyrim's launch last November PS3 players spotted that the game all but ground to a halt once save files passed 5MB in size - an issue it took Bethesda three months to fix.
While the game itself is playable on PS3 these days, it appears Bethesda is still struggling with developing for Sony's system, and in a post on its official forums admits that, despite ongoing efforts, the company can't be sure Dawnguard - or the new Skyrim DLC, Hearthfire, announced this week - will ever make it to PS3.
"Skyrim is a massive and dynamic game that requires a lot of resources, and things get much more complex when you're talking about sizeable content like Dawnguard," the post reads. "We have tried a number of things, but none of them solve the issue enough to make Dawnguard good for everyone.
"The PS3 is a powerful system, and we're working hard to deliver the content you guys want. Dawnguard is obviously not the only DLC we're working on, either, so the issues of adding content get even more complicated.
"This is not a problem we're positive we can solve, but we are working together with Sony to bring you this content."
Technical problems are one thing, but arguably the bigger issue here is one of trust. What chance is there that PS3 players will be prepared to forgive and forget when Bethesda's next big multiplatform game comes along? Dishonored is the publisher's big 2012 bet, and is being developed externally, at French studio Arkane, and the PS3 release will need to be technically on par with the Xbox 360 release for Bethesda to have any hope of repairing its relationship with a huge number of players.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/skyr...er-make-it-ps3

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Killzone Trilogy spotted for PlayStation 3

September 2nd, 2012, 13:20 Posted By: wraggster

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Sony unveils new 84 inch 4K HDTV

September 2nd, 2012, 16:19 Posted By: wraggster

Earlier today Sony revealed an 84 inch HDTV with four times the resolution of today's top television sets.Due later this year, the Bravia KD-84X9005 has an insane resolution of (3840 x 2160) and will be able to upconvert existing shows, movies and photographs. It also comes equipped with ten speakers, creating a virtual 5.1 surround sound field.No price has been announced, but we reckon it will probably cost at least four figures and a kidney or two.Now, can you imagine playing Journey on that set? Oh my!

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Final Fantasy 'Ultimate' compilation coming to Japan, priced around $450

September 2nd, 2012, 16:31 Posted By: wraggster

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Resident Evil 6 retail copies loose in Poland

September 2nd, 2012, 16:33 Posted By: wraggster

If you live in the city of Poznan, Poland, then today was your lucky day to pick up Resident Evil 6 on PS3 from a local retailer. NeoGo was able to purchase a German-branded copy of the game about a month before its retail street date of October 2.

"I was shocked when I heard the store offers it and rushed to check it out," Rafał Baranowski of NeoGo told us. "I have no knowledge of manufacturing plant near Poznan. It looks like it has been pulled from Germany, really."

The site currently has a video up of the game and has sent us images of the manual as proof it's a final retail copy. The site currently has a couple videos up of the game.

"I will play deeper into the game over the weekend, but please note that we do not plan to make tons of videos," Baranowski said. "... Capcom would kill us."

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/31/re...ose-in-poland/

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'World Tekken Federation' membership free with every copy of Tekken Tag Tournament 2

September 2nd, 2012, 16:37 Posted By: wraggster

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PS Vita firmware 1.80 blocks VHBL

September 2nd, 2012, 22:39 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/08/28/ps-vita...0-blocks-vhbl/

Well, this is a surprise, and not a good one. Vita firmware 1.80 comes with a few unwelcome updates, one of them being that it blocks VHBL.



I have good and bad news. The good news is that, as far as I could see, VHBL still runs fine on firmware 1.80. The bad news is, it is impossible to copy it to the PS Vita. The version I tested had been installed before the update to 1.80, but sadly I could confirm the 1.80 update prevents us from copying the VHBL files, ad well as homebrews, to the memory card.

Vita firmware 1.80 comes with a forced CMA update (open CMA, sadly, didn’t help to prevent that), which, among other things, has a series of more advanced checks on the files it copies from and to the Vita. Remember how we could put anything we wanted in the PSP savedata folders, and get CMA to copy that to the vita? install.zip, h.bin, etc, etc… well, all of this is over, and now only the allowed files for each specific save seem to be accepted.

Several people are already looking into this, but for now it means that our long awaited VHBL release is, at the very least, postponed, if not worse.

I am not sure this is a good strategy from Sony. As I’ve been saying for a while, VHBL is a blessing in disguise for Sony, because it distracts many skilled hackers, focusing the attention of the scene on something that is basically harmless. The day VHBL is blocked, these people will start to look for other ways to hack the vita. Note however that I am not sure if this is just Sony cleaning up their CMA code by enforcing stricter rules, or if this is intentionally made to prevent VHBL from running.

As you can imagine, I am the first one to be disappointed by this, stay tuned while we are (of course) looking for solutions…

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Vita 1.80: the hidden “features” we didn’t really need

September 2nd, 2012, 22:41 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/08/29/vita-1-...t-really-need/

As with every firmware update, firmware 1.80 comes with a few “features” we’d rather not have…


The first one is that the Content Manager Assistant (a tool invented by Satan himself, that he later gave directly to his close friends in the Sony business department) has been updated to enforce stricter rules on what files can and can’t be copied to and from the PS Vita, with the direct result of blocking VHBL, as I mentioned earlier here.

But that’s not the only bad surprise that comes with this firmware. The second one, and possibly more important for many players, is that you cannot use a single memory card for multiple accounts anymore. You thought switching accounts was a pain in the a## because you had to reset factory settings? Well, Sony managed to make it even more painful by forcing you to actually format your memory card every time you switch between accounts (for those who didn’t know: no, it wasn’t required before). What this means is that, if, like me, you have several accounts with games you actually purchased on each one of them, you will now need several memory cards, one per account, unless you want to go through the hassle of re-downloading all your games every time you switch accounts. Don’t you just love that feeling of being a milk cow? (Thanks to TheBudds for pointing that one out)

Yeah, Sony loves to hide Easter eggs in their firmware updates, but beware, everything that’s brown is not always made of chocolate… How about you, have you found some hidden “features” on the latest firmware that you’d rather not have?

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VHBL: there’s light at the end of the tunnel

September 2nd, 2012, 22:43 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/08/29/vhbl-th...of-the-tunnel/

Yesterday I announced that Vita’s firmware 1.80 was blocking VHBL. Many talented devs heard my distress signal and started working on solutions. It’s been a long day, but I am now basically convinced that the VHBL release will happen on 1.80, it is just slightly postponed.

Some of you might have already seen that Neur0n (and others) figured out a way to install VHBL on firmware 1.80. As I mentioned yesterday, VHBL runs fine on 1.80, but copying it to the memory stick is the hard part.Neur0n found a way to do it, but he was not the only one to find ways to copy our files to the Vita on the latest 1.80. Actually a large amount of people, known hackers or unknown members of our forums contacted me with solutions. I won’t name them all, but I want to thank all of you who have contacted me with ideas/solutions, it’s great to be part of such an active and helpful community
It turns out the changes in Firmware 1.80 were probably not an attempt at shutting VHBL down, rather than enforce stricter rules on file naming conventions for PSP savedata. These rules were already enforced on the PS3, and some of you might remember that it was not possible to install VHBL on the Vita from a PS3 because of these limitations. Funnily enough, I had already started working on taking these limitations into account for VHBL a while ago, but never really finished that because “I want to copy VHBL to my Vita from my PS3” was not such a huge use case.
Bottom line is, we freaked out yesterday over something that had probably nothing to do with us in the first place. To quote a nice conversation I had yesterday “you guys [hackers] often mistake a simple bug for a new security feature”, and I think this is what happened here.
So what’s next? Well, although I haven’t seen it by myself yet, I believe VHBL should be able to run and be installed on firmware 1.80 relatively easily, although there is of course some work to be done to get it compatible with these changes. I will get in touch with neur0n, and as far as I can tell for now, the VHBL release is a bit postponed, but not cancelled (I still need to confirm that with my own eyes, though!).
I will of course keep you updated once I have more info, stay tuned!

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Alright, VHBL is back on 1.80!

September 2nd, 2012, 23:36 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/08/30/alright...-back-on-1-80/

So, how cool is that? Less than 48 hours after we thought VHBL was locked out for good, we’re back on our feet!





To be honest, I must say I basically freaked out for just a small thing. After a few hours of investigation, it became clear that Sony was not really after VHBL, they just cleaned up some of their filename rules in CMA, in order to comply to the FAT naming conventions (also known as 8.3).

As I mentioned, I had started working on those limitations a while ago (see here and here) since the limitations already existed when trying to copy files from the PS3 to the Vita. So in hindsight, it seems Sony just unified CMA to the restrictions already in place on their systems.

I realized how obvious this was when many people contacted me about this, and since I had already all the bits and pieces ready in VHBL to support it, it was just a matter of confirming, adding a few compilation variables, and recompiling the thing.

As I am writing this, the JP and US versions of VHBL are being tested, while I could confirm it works fine on 1.80 with the EU version. Below is a screenshot of GPSP running Advanced wars. The overlay shows one of the new options of the touch screen in 1.80



Neur0n also figured this whole thing out I assume, but he hasn’t sent me any file yet, so for now we’ll go with my changes. This shouldn’t matter too much anyway, the core of the changes here are still from Neur0n, as he is the one who made most of the compatibility fixes for homebrews here.

Yes, the files are ready and the Ninja release will happen, from now it is not a matter of “if”, but a matter of “when”. For obvious reasons, I cannot give you any precise date, just know that it is happening, soon

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When the PSP and the Vita show their battle scars…

September 2nd, 2012, 23:38 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/09/01/when-th...-battle-scars/

The PSP has a long history of user mode exploits in its game library. Without going into details, savegames have been our favorite vector of user mode hacks for years.

Some of you might remember the old days of GTA: Liberty City Stories, the dramas around Gripshift or Mercury, the awesome “commit suicide to trigger the exploit” in Medal of Honor, or, more recently, our numerous HBL or VHBL releases.

But did you know that each new firmware on the PSP or the Vita ships with a “blacklist” of those savegame exploits, hashes that help the console identify “bad” savegames? The games themselves are never patched, it would be way too costly to contact the development studio, recompile the game with a patch, go through a release process… not to mention how impractical it would have been to distribute patched UMDs back in the days (as far as I know, the “patched” version of GTA was actually just shipping with an updated firmware that had the blacklist thing implemented).

As a consequence, each new PSP firmware (including the ones on the Vita) ships with a growing list of hacked games, what I like to call the “battle scars” of the PSP in Sony’s fight against hackers.

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Heroe's Empire 0.2 Released

September 2nd, 2012, 23:52 Posted By: wraggster

via http://www.dashhacks.com/psp/psp-hac...-released.html

If you're a fan of real-time strategy titles, than Heroe's Empire is for you! Based strongly off the second Age of Empires title, this game will have you building your own virtual society with the purpose of eventually attacking and destroying a rival nation. Essentially this game operates with the same basic mechanics and ideas that you would expect from any half-serious RTS game. Like more or less every other member of this genre, along the pathway toward attack, players will be asked to perform special missions such as collecting a certain amount of gold, and once they complete that task they will be able to upgrade their army. Doing this enough will eventually allow for a well-trained force that is primed for battle.

So what can a user find in this relatively young 0.2 version number? While the translation may be a bit rough, what I can understand is that the graphics have experienced a slight overall improvement. On top of that, the barracks is now a legitimate item, so you can finally start creating that army instead of just spending the whole game harvesting resources. Lastly of course there are some bug fixes making the game more stable.

If you want to see what AoE2 could be like on the go, this may be a worthwhile homebrew to look at. Just remember that this is a work in progress. Let the sarmy building begin!

http://pspcustomfirmware.com/heroes-empire-0-2/

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Naruto Ultimate Ninja Battle 3.5

September 3rd, 2012, 00:04 Posted By: wraggster

via http://pspcustomfirmware.com/naruto-...ja-battle-3-5/

Naruto Ultimate Ninja Battle 3.5 a PSP Homebrew game for the PlayStation Homebrew community has been updated and release to the PSP Homebrew community . For those of ya that are following this awesome homebrew game known as Naruto Ultimate Ninja Battle , This latest version includes tons of new features as well as some game play for a better game experience that users will enjoy on their PSP System . Below you will find a bit more information from the developer about this PSP Homebrew game for your PSP System that is homebrew enable . Changelog for3.5
[NEW] Updated Namebar!
[NEW] Added New Intro!
[NEW] Added New Mainmenu!
[NEW] Added New End!
[NEW] Added New Pausemenu!
[FIX] The GAME is now full in English!
[FIX] Removed some bad Arenas!
[FIX] Many Changes&Bug Fixes!(Like the Madara-End-Bug!)
List of all Charakters(v3.5)
Asuma
Danzou
Deidara
Gaara
Gai
Hashirama
Hinata
Hiruzen
Itachi Susanoo Mode
Jiraiya
Juugo
Kabuto Orochimaru Mode
Kakashi
Kankuro
Kiba [+Akamaru]
Killerbee 8-Tail Human Mode
Kisame
Konan
Madara [+Kyuubi]
Minato
Mizukage
Naruto Chakra Mode
Neji
Orochimaru
Pain 6 Paths
Sai
Sakura

Sasuke Susanoo Mode
Shikamaru
Shino
Suigetsu
Temari
Tobi
Tobirama
Tsunade
Yamato
Unlockable Characters(v3.5):
Shikamaru via Temari.
1.Hokage via Madara.
Suigetsu via Kisame.
Yamato via Kakashi.
3.Hokage via Danzou.
Help-Characters(v3.5)
Naruto Sp = Killerbee
Sasuke Sp = Orochimaru
Shikamaru Sp = Asuma
1.Hokage = 2.Hokage
Suigetsu = Juugo
Yamato = Sai
3.Hokage = 4.Hokage
Hinata = Neji
6xPain = Konan
Tsunade = Mizukage

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JPCSP - New compatibility site

September 3rd, 2012, 00:15 Posted By: wraggster

A new (beta) site for checking psp games and psp emulators compatibility from jpcsp at http://www.psp-compatibility.com

We still working on this but you can get an idea

http://www.jpcsp.org/

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Assassin's Creed 3 will have new challenges and content every month

September 3rd, 2012, 10:38 Posted By: wraggster

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Assassin's Creed III devs: "Easy mode often ruins games"

September 3rd, 2012, 21:25 Posted By: wraggster

Many games are ruined by developers' desire to ensure they're accessible to as many players as possible, according to Alex Hutchinson - the lead designer on Edge 245 cover star Assassin's Creed III.
"A lot of games have been ruined by easy modes," he asserts. "If you have a cover shooter and you switch it to easy and you don’t have to use cover, you kind of broke your game.
"You made a game that is essentially the worst possible version of your game."
It's a problem unique to videogames, he continues, lamenting the fact that this is the only creative industry that needs to provide difficulty options.
"It’s like if I picked up a book and it said, 'Do you want the easy version or the complicated version?' [Game designers] can simplify the language, you know; we can make it two syllables."
Lead gameplay designer Steven Masters chimes in to stress that, in spite of this position on easy modes, the team's goal isn't to make a challenge of each passing moment in the game, but to make sure they are passed well. And a big part of ensuring that that's the case, is playtesting, which the team has been conducting since January. Ubisoft is taking the task very seriously, setting up two labs and ushering in a fresh batch of players each week.
"I have crazy data analysis tools for these things," Masters explains. "I can reach in and pull a video of any moment in a playtest; I can sort different events and say, 'Okay, I want to see when this guy got detected and then failed within 30 seconds', and watch that.
"So in terms of difficulty balancing we can do quite a lot of fine tuning. It’s something that I look after very closely just to make sure that everyone’s having a good experience. We don’t do it on the fly but we take a lot of care over it."
Hutchinson adds: "We’re not trying to make a brutally difficult game, so we go through all the playtest data and make sure it works."
It will still be challenging, of course, and Ubisoft is building on the optional objectives system it ushered in with Brotherhood: executing any given target won't necessarily be difficult, but doing it in style will up the ante considerably.
"We’ve got some missions like the reveal mission that was that big battle on bunker hill, thousands of NPCs on screen and such," enthuses Masters. "We can let you get through that pretty straightforwardly, but we can put a lot of constraints in like 'don’t take any damage when you’re coming down there' or 'assassinate the target without being detected'.
"When you’re standing in the middle of this incredibly fortified scenario it’s a serious stealth challenge. It’s really difficult and we’re going to challenge you on all of your different skills and abilities."

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Ico HD playable on Vita with Remote Play update

September 3rd, 2012, 21:53 Posted By: wraggster

Ico will soon be playable on the PS Vita via Remote Play.
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony's worldwide studios, confirmed the functionality will be introduced through an upcoming patch for Ico HD."Sorry to tease you, I was play testing Ico HD Remote Play on PS Vita," he posted onTwitter. "We are almost ready with a patch. Beautiful on OLED. More info soon."
Remastered versions of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus were released last year as a retail discm, with both games on one Blu-Ray disc, and individually on the PlayStation Network.
Yoshida went on to clarify the patch is for the PSN release of Ico.
Reports have suggested Sony intendeds make all PlayStation 3 games playable on PS Vita using Remote Play. The functionality was originally touted at TGS 2011, when Yoshida showed Killzone 3 running on the handheld.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...e-play-update/

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Epic Mickey 2 screens look a bit N64-era

September 3rd, 2012, 22:18 Posted By: wraggster

We can't help but feel that Epic Mickey 2 should look a fair bit better than it does. Check out these new screenshots from PAX, for example.
Don't they look a little bit like a HD remake of an N64 game? Or maybe low-end Dreamcast? Especially the shot of Mickey on the raft with the cardboard background and crappy-looking trees. And the textures up close aren't doing it any favours either.It wasn't such a big deal on the first game because that was a Wii exclusive. But this one's headed to HD consoles. We know they're going for that basic Disney-cartoon look, but so did Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and Okami on GameCube, and they both still look fantastic.
More where these came from on Destructoid.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...a-bit-n64-era/

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Ratchet: Deadlocked locked in for PSN re-release this year

September 3rd, 2012, 22:29 Posted By: wraggster

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LittleBigPlanet Vita goes gold

September 4th, 2012, 02:19 Posted By: wraggster

Tarsier Studios and Double Eleven have completed development on LittleBigPlanet for Vita, ready for its release later this month, Sony confirmed today.
The 'Next Good Excuse to Use Your Vita' will be out in Europe on September 19, followed by a US release on September 25.Slapping your name down early for a copy will give you access to some bonus get-ups for your Sackboy; a BioShock pack includes Big Daddy and Little Sister costumes, and a 'Knights of Old' comes with costumes to dress up your Sackboy or Sackgirl as a knight, damsel in distress, black knight, or a dragon.
More details on other goodies through the above link.
Sackboy's latest adventure is set on a mysterious travelling planet called Carnivalia. Tarsierrecently released this gameplay trailer to fill you in on the game's plot.

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Soywiz＇s Psp Emulator Git (2012/08/29)

September 4th, 2012, 02:43 Posted By: wraggster

via http://www.emucr.com/

Soywiz＇s Psp Emulator Git (2012/08/29) is compiled. Soywiz＇s Psp Emulator is a PlayStation Portable (PSP) emulator, emulator for windows. This emulator born as a proof of concept of an emulator made in D. Now it's getting more and more compatible with homebrew, and gaining in features and speed. The emulator was based in it's first version on great Noxa's C# pspplayer emulator.

Soywiz＇s Psp Emulator Git Changelog:
* - First LLE tests
* - More Work
* - More work on LLE tests
- Now it:
- Decrypts and reads the IPL from a nand dump
- Executes the IPL until it starts the ME? Then enter in a forever loop.
* - Some more LLE work (now ME starts)
* - More Work

http://www.mediafire.com/?n5rv69vndbwg4ne

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PSP News Updated

September 4th, 2012, 13:38 Posted By: wraggster

Today whilst waiting for the site to come back up after a small time of downtime, i decided to work on the PSP Site and give it a bit of a going over, the site now has links to each of the different variations of the PSP Console released and the very latest Games for the PSP.

For those new to PSP Homebrew/Gaming or Emulation, the Playstation Portable back in 2006 had the first real Mainstream Homebrew scene of all, at that time and until the custom firmwares came and piracy took over the scene was amazing, there was a time when i was a tester for ZodTTds PSone Emulator that we had 500 members online (and about 6000 guests). Sadly that time has come and gone and the PSP isnt the Homebrew force it once was.

But we should remember that the PSP has an amazing amount of emulators, games and applications written for it.

If you want an Handheld emulation device then look no further.

Check out the PSP Scene from the beginning to the present day over at PSP News here --> http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/

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Hitman Sniper Challenge: Publishers, bring out your deadliest

September 5th, 2012, 01:07 Posted By: wraggster

You may have a keen aim when it comes to targeted marketing campaigns, but how well do you fare with a sniper rifle?
MCV and Square Enix is looking for the UK games industry's deadliest assassin in our Hitman Sniper Challenge competition. The best performers each month will win a 16Gb Wi-Fi iPad 2 and a 10" Agent 47 statue – and in September, that means publishers.
The second and third prize is the 10" statue. A 2" version will be given to the rest of the Top Ten – and let's not forget our secret star prize for the Ultimate Assassin, which will be decided in December.
July was our Media league, topped by Future’s Iain Wilson with a whopping 4.7 million points. August was our Retail league, and we'll have the final scores in next week's issue of MCV. Now it's your turn, publishers.
If you want to take part in our Hitman Sniper Challenge contest, all you have to do is fill in your details at tinyurl.com/sniperchallenge.
Download codes are available for Xbox 360, PS3 and Steam. If you already have the Hitman Absolution pre-order game, Sniper Challenge, send in a photo of your high score to sniperchallenge@intentmedia.co.uk.
You have until September 30th to send in your scores. October will be our Developer league, followed by miscellaneous competitors in November. We'll then have the winners of each league back in December as we search for the Ultimate Assassin.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/hitma...dliest/0102303

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Final Fantasy Ultimate Box goes from PSOne to PS3: All 13 games for $450

September 5th, 2012, 01:28 Posted By: wraggster

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PlayStation 'Retro Games Sale' starts Wednesday

September 5th, 2012, 01:45 Posted By: wraggster

Sony is to launch a Retro Games Sale to celebrate the launch of PSone support on Vita.
The sale kicks off tomorrow in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and United Arab Emirates.
Here's the full list of deals, which aren't exclusive to PSone games:PS3

• Space Channel 5 Part 2, Was - €7.99/£6.49 Now - €4.49/£3.69

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Eufloria dev: Vita an ideal home for mid-tier games

September 5th, 2012, 22:00 Posted By: wraggster

PlayStation Vita could be the new home for middle-tier games that are struggling on console and PC, Eufloria developer Rudolf Kremers tells us.
Much has been made of late about the middle tier being squeezed out of the game industry, with only big-budget games succeeding on consoles and the likes of iOS playing host to simpler games from smaller teams. Our latest issue, Edge 245, features an in-depth look at the problem.
In an interview, Kremers - whose minimalistic RTS Eufloria was a success on PC, then PSN, and was recently released on iOS - believes Vita is an ideal solution to the problem, with its technical horsepower and traditional controls making it a fine fit for ambitious games developed on slender budgets.
"I think Vita is a fantastic platform - I love it to bits," Kremer tells us. "It's become a new place for the mid tier of game development. What we have at the moment is this weird ecosystem where you either work on a massive-budget, triple-A title, or you work on very, very small, micro-project titles. That's just how it's grown; it's part of the disruption that iOS has created.
"But what I miss is a nice home for middle-sized, high-quality titles made by smaller teams that still feel a little bit like console or PC experiences - a bit more long-form, [with] a bit more depth."
Kremers believes that Vita is the platform to save the middle tier - and believes that Sony is well-placed to ensure it happens. He's full of praise for the platform holder's attitude to indies.
"Sony are clearly very accepting and encouraging to indie developers," he says. "I've had a really good experience with them publishing on PSN, and they seem to promote certain types of games that work well on their platform but made by smaller companies and one-man bands."
And no wonder. Sony supported Eufloria, of course, but the company's release slate is full of proof that it is prepared to take a chance on quality indie games. That attitude is set to spread beyond Sony's consoles with the launch of PlayStation Mobile, a cross-platform SDK enabling devs to release games not just for Vita, but PlayStation Certified smartphones and tablets too.
"PlayStation Mobile is extra-interesting because there's a certain amount of crossplatform development going on there," he explains. "It's very useful, I think, to add other mobiel devices to the mix. It's a very smart move.
"The SDK makes [your game] compliant with all these different platforms, so you develop it just once, within a set of constraints, rather than making it for five different platforms. You develop it for PS Mobile and it rolls out automatically for whatever [device] is compliant."

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Rebuilding Tomb Raider: The return of Lara Croft

September 5th, 2012, 23:26 Posted By: wraggster

Lara Croft is a permanent fixture at the MCV offices.
Eidos had mocked up an image of her reading your favourite trade weekly to celebrate our first birthday (which was 1999). It still stands proud in our office today, reminding us of a time when the Britsoft pin-up was one of the biggest gaming icons in the world.
But time has not been kind to the Tomb Raider. A failed foray into cinema plus a handful of duff releases and Lara’s star has faded. The action adventure series was in desperate need of modernisation. So that’s exactly what Square Enix and developer Crystal Dynamics has done.
“She had become somewhat unrelatable,” admits Darrell Gallagher, studio head at Crystal Dynamics.
“She was obviously fully-formed; she was a confident, wisecracking adventurer and it was something that people weren’t necessarily connected to 15 years in. So we wanted to strip it down, give her a personality, make her feel more human, grounded and believable.
“The thing we want to do is make her a more modern version of a young British girl versus somebody that was so, I hate to use the word ‘posh’, but in a sphere where she had a butler. She wasn’t that relatable – almost like the niece of the queen or something. You look at some of the actresses that are popular at this point, someone like a Keira Knightley, she’s just a very likeable English girl and that’s the kind of person that you’d imagine Lara to be like. We really wanted to make her a little bit closer to somebody you could know.”
The new Tomb Raider takes Lara back to the start, to a time before she was the ‘wisecracking adventurer’. And Gallagher and his team have turned to the world of movies for inspiration.
“Not many game franchises have run as long as Tomb Raider,” he says. “And we were faced with a challenge that many more franchises will also have to face.
“So we looked at Batman Begins and Casino Royale and said, well how have they remained relevant over the years? What they’ve done is essentially had turns in their franchises that made it feel modern. So every generation has its version of Batman or Bond.
“What they’ve done with that franchise is make it relevant by reinventing it for modern times. In the video game industry, we haven’t really been faced with that. We were feeling like we were one of the first to really have to tackle that.”
VIOLENT CONTENT
Lara Croft has certainly made her way back into the headlines. Over the past few months the upcoming Tomb Raider has sparked media furore over rape and violence. It may not be the sort of press the Square Enix PR team was hoping for, but the franchise has certainly got the world's attention once again.
But it’s not been all negative, this new look Croft has generated a certain level of excitement, too.
Gallagher adds: “We have placed a big emphasis in putting some maturity into our storytelling, The drama and maturity of a character and what she’s going through.
“It’s something we’re actually treating with care. For us to tell a survival story, there is a harshness to that to deliver on. When we’re thinking about Tomb Raider and we thought about all these action adventure stories and you think about people who climb Everest or survive after a plane crash in the Andes,. It’s not actually about the destination but it’s the journey.
“We looked at these incredible stories and we felt that we hadn’t ever really delivered on that in Tomb Raider. We’d delivered on fantasy, we’d delivered on destination, we’d delivered on picture postcard vistas and all kinds of aspects on action, adventure and discovery. But that true story of actually achieving something and it being something that you talk about as being heroic. There’s a harshness to it that without that challenge, it wouldn’t be a heroic story. When you think about Aaron Ralston, 127 Hours, and he chopped off his arm, it’s incredible. We wanted to have that enthused into this game so when it comes to the violence or it being adult, it’s really to support our goal.”
LARA’S FORTUNE
Tomb Raider also returns to a world where action adventure games are suddenly popular once again. Sony’s Uncharted franchise has been a phenomenal critical and commercial success, and it's a series that’s clearly inspired by Lara’s past glories.
Crystal Dynamics is keen to stress that this Tomb Raider is not simply Uncharted with a female lead. But the commercial performance of Sony’s series has certainly made Tomb Raider a far more enticing option for the trade, and could even give it the edge in a surprisingly congested Q1 2013.
“When you look at Uncharted or some of the other big games out there, if they spring an appetite in the public and they want more, then we only benefit from that,” admits Gallagher.
“They make great games and I enjoy playing them. We were actually planning this before Uncharted 2, so Uncharted was still in its infancy. We knew at that point that we had to take this franchise in a different direction, not 1necessarily because of Uncharted, but because we knew we were facing a problem with a franchise that, at that point, had been around for almost 13 years.
“Regardless of what the competition were doing, we knew that to stay relevant we had to change. So as it happened, Uncharted came out and elevated action adventure and they did a great job and certainly took some inspiration from Tomb Raider but for us, we were actually travelling in a different path already.”
It’s a direction that appears to be working, at least so far. Early press previews have been positive. If the game lives up to its current demos, then it should certainly enjoy the backing of the games media.
“We’ve had great responses overall and I think there’s a lot of interest in this reinvention of Tomb Raider. For the most part, I feel there’s goodwill. People want it to come back. There’s been nominations on our booth wall at E3, we’ve been invited to do stage demos by Microsoft, and looking at not only just the media and journalist responses but also, more critically, gamer responses as well
“There’s tons of commentary that I see around the gaming public which is suggesting that there is a real will for Tomb Raider to be back on the map.”

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PlayStation Plus: 25% subscription discount for the next 2 weeks

September 6th, 2012, 00:05 Posted By: wraggster

Sony has knocked 25 per cent of the price of an annual PlayStation Plus subscription.
Running for two weeks until September 19, the offer lets you to pick up a 365 day PS Plus pass for £29.99/€37.49, down from the regular price of £39.99/€49.99.Annual subscriptions will stack, so current subscribers can also take advantage of the reduced price.
During its Gamescom conference last month, the platform holder revealed plans to bring PlayStation Plus to Vita later this year.
Sony has also kicked off a Retro Games Sale on PlayStation Network today to celebrate the recent launch of PSone support on Vita.

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PSVita Hacked - PSVita Usermode Homebrew Coming Soon - Usermode Vita Loader

September 6th, 2012, 13:15 Posted By: wraggster

Yifan Lu the coder behind the Kindle jailbreak and mods and more famously PSXperia (running PSX games on Xperia Play) has revealed that he is now working on a Native Loader for the PSVita, basically its an Userland Vita Loader for loading unsigned executables on your Vita - Homebrew Loader for the PSVita - (not like VHBL which uses the PSP Emulator on PSVita).

The project comes from a PSVita exploit he has found and obviuosly wont give details of as of this time because of Sony plugging the exploit.

Theres no release yet but the sourcecode is being worked on as we speak. Yifan Lu has stated on his twitter account this

Also this:

For the Devs out there here is what he posted in full:

Very interesting times ahead.

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Thunder Wolves swoops in, shoots up XBLA, PSN and PC in early 2013

September 7th, 2012, 00:57 Posted By: wraggster

Developer Most Wanted Entertainment is preparing a new shooter for Ubisoft's staple, Thunder Wolves. Launching during the first quarter on Xbox Live Arcade, PC and PSN.

The game features over 30 chopper and weapon combos. There's also a co-op mode, with one person flying the bird and the other shooting every mother-lovin' baddy in sight.

Thunder Wolves places players in the cockpit of a war bird with one goal: establish air supremacy. We've gotta imagine "don't run out of fuel" and "don't fly into that building" are close secondary goals.
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Sony 4K TV to cost $25,000

September 7th, 2012, 01:08 Posted By: wraggster

Sony's first 4K TV set has been priced at $25,000 (£15,700) in the US.
Available to pre-order now ahead of its release this November, the 84-inch XBR-84X900 has a 3840 x 2160 resolution - that's four times the pixels of full HD.Other key features include 3D viewing, a virtual 5.1 surround sound field and online connectivity through the Sony Entertainment Network. Get the full tech specs here.
Just as the PS3 played a key role in establishing Blu-ray and later 3D content, PlayStation 4 is expected to form part of Sony's plan to push 4K tech out to consumers.

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Vita version of Football Manager 'possible if sales pick up'

September 7th, 2012, 01:10 Posted By: wraggster

Sports Interactive is "constantly watching" the sales data of Sony's PS Vita, the studio's director has said, but the group will not release a Football Manager game for the system until sales pick up.
Speaking to CVG on the day of the Football Manager 2013 announcement, Miles Jacobson said that Vita owners looking for an FM fix will discover that the PSP version of the management sim is still playable on the newer handheld."We actually found out by accident that you can play the PSP version of Football Manager Handheld on Vita," he said. "At the moment, this year there will not be a specific Vita version.
"I really like the device, I know it may not have performed at retail as much as people would have liked, but we're constantly watching to see if it does pick up. It is a really special device, and hopefully it will get to the stage where we can get something through Sega so Football Manager can be on the system.
"At the end of the day, we are running a business and we need our games to be profitable, so we have to take into account the sales of the Vita version before making a decision."
On the subject of the upcoming iOS and Android versions of Football Manager Handheld 2013, Jacobson said to expect a release before Christmas.
He explained: "We can't talk about it just yet, specifically because we don't know what the iPhone 5 is going to be like and don't know what the feature set yet."
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Activision insists it IS publishing Black Ops: Declassified on Vita

September 7th, 2012, 23:40 Posted By: wraggster

It may sound like an obvious statement, but Activision has been forced to clarify that it is indeed the publisher of Vita shooter Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified.
"Activision is the publisher, but we also have a partnership with Sony to bundle Declassified with the PlayStation Vita," was the statement given to CVG, but it doesn’t really answer all of the questions.
For instance, we know that neither Treyarch and Infinity Ward – the two lead studios in the complex world of Call of Duty development – have no involvement in the game’s production.
Instead, development is being handled by Nihilistic Software, whose two most recent projects are Resistance: Burning Skies PlayStation Move Heroes. Both of which are Sony games.
Then we have the fact that Sony appears to have been given complete control of the marketing and presentation of the title.
All of which has led many to conclude that the game is, by all intent and purposes, a Sony title, with Activision having only licensed the IP to it.
Whether or not that’s technically accurate will no doubt emerge over time, but it’s safe to say that the game isn’t being kept as close to Activision’s chest as it would normally.
In fact, we don’t think it’s stepping out of line to say that it’s at arm’s reach.

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Happy Birthday! 25 years of Final Fantasy

September 7th, 2012, 23:41 Posted By: wraggster

It’s one of Japan’s biggest gaming exports and has sold over 100 million units worldwide. In January 2007, it was listed as the third best-selling video game franchise in the industry. It’s branched from role-playing games to tactics, action, MMORPG, third-person shooter, fighting and rhythm genres. And it’s just about to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
The series has been both commercially and critically successful and is synonymous with quality, innovation and visuals. It’s also a huge brand that goes beyond games and into merchandise, jewelry, perfume, concerts, soundtracks and even movies. It is, of course, Final Fantasy.
In its 25th year, Square Enix has already released two games, Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, digitally re-released the most popular entry, Final Fantasy VII, for PC and Square Enix announced it was rebuilding its latest MMORPG after disappointing fans. What else does the firm have planned for this mammoth franchise?
“We’re preparing to unveil a Final Fantasy exhibition here in Japan,” said Square Enix’s senior executive managing officer Shinji Hashimoto. “Plans for anniversary projects in Europe and America are also underway and we’d like to extend an invitation to all our fans to celebrate this special year with us.”
There’s already a teaser site online hinting at a possible new entry to the Final Fantasy XIII series, the PS3 exclusive Final Fantasy Versus XIII is still in development and there’s surely something more to that impressive tech demo from this year’s E3.
What’s impressive is that an essentially Japanese franchise has managed to gain commercial success worldwide.
“Perhaps it’s the avid enthusiasm the creators have invested in the Final Fantasy titles and the desire to realise exciting new elements in the series which has captured the imagination of players everywhere.
“There could be a variety of different factors involved as to why it’s done well in Europe especially. A couple of important points to consider would be carefully localising the game and ensuring there is as little difference as possible in the release dates across Japan, Europe and America.”
With the launch of Final Fantasy XIII-2, DLC was introduced for the first time in the main series adding costumes, new story sections and bosses to fight in the game’s coliseum area but it didn’t always go down well with fans.
“Each batch of DLC we released for Final Fantasy XIII-2 was received differently by players. However, this helped us to learn and deliver better results. Our goal now is to pay strict attention to user needs while planning future DLC releases.”
Final Fantasy has a reputation for being a very pretty franchise. But Hashimoto hopes there’s more to Final Fantasy’s legend. “Although we talk about Final Fantasy as a franchise, it’s important to consider the different producers and directors behind the games, all of whom have left their mark by evolving the series in their own ways.
“The tactical style featured in Final Fantasy XII’s battle system or the fast-paced fighting found in XIII have all contributed to the many assets that have accumulated and allow the series to flourish up to now. We intend to continue with this evolutionary approach to keep taking the series forward.”
New Final Fantasy continues to come thick and fast, and with its stunning E3 tech demo, it appears Final Fantasy will stay in the leading for a while to come.
“The tech demo we revealed at E3 is one indicator of the direction the series is taking. I believe we have continued to explore every possibility for advancing the series while always scrapping and rebuilding the Final Fantasy design,” Hashimoto added. “This is also something very unlikely to change in the future.”

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First step toward Vita piracy as homebrew hack reports emerge

September 7th, 2012, 23:45 Posted By: wraggster

The PlayStation Vita’s security protocols have been breached.
The hacker who cracked Amazon’s Kindle, Yifan Lu, claims to have constructed a working loader that is able to run some very basic unofficial code on the handheld.
While the playing of PSP homebrew on Vita has been working for some time, this is the first time that brand new software has got successfully up and running.
And despite the nobility of these early developments, it’s hard to deny that news like this is often the first step toward something altogether more sinister – piracy.
As always, the hack’s creator has defended his work, claiming that he is not responsible for what others may do with the inroads he has created.
Indie developer Wolfgang Wozniak asked: “Your exploit doesn't do anything, yes, yes, I know. But it's an open door. Not for you, but for people who want to destroy us.”
To which Lu replied: “Again, I apologize, but what can I do about what others may possibly do in the future? I would be glad to do anything in my power.”

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Sony discouraging Vita ports to avoid repeating PSP mistakes

September 8th, 2012, 00:22 Posted By: wraggster

In an effort to 'actively' avoid repeating the mistakes made with PSP, Sony is said to be discouraging developers from porting console games to Vita.
That's according to Sony's marketing VP for handhelds and consoles John Koller , who has told Gamasutra that while the message for the two portables is similar - 'console quality ports on a handheld' - Sony is working to avoid making the same mistake of pushing out ports."The issue that happened with PSP is we got overrun with ports," said Koller. "It became very difficult for us to define what made PSP unique. The content development became a bit unstructured or decentralized, in that we got a lot of content that was on PlayStation 2 and got thrown over to the handheld."
Koller goes on to state the importance of these 'console experiences' being unique to Vita. He says the handheld "isn't something consumers play because they've left the living room. It's something that [needs to be] unique, and defines the Vita experience."
The evidence of Sony's guidance so far is questionable. While titles such as Uncharted: The Golden Abyss, WipEout 2048 and Resistance: Burning Skies have represented solid Vita-exclusive efforts from Sony-only franchises, many other Vita games have simply been small-screen ports of console titles.
Koller looks to the future, pointing to games such as Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified and Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation - two major console franchises coming to Vita with all new games. "The messaging is similar [between PSP and PS Vita], but I think the output is going to be quite different," he assures.

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GTA 5 release date leak 'a hoax'

September 8th, 2012, 00:23 Posted By: wraggster

A supposedly leaked image suggesting that Grand Theft Auto 5 will release before 2013 is not genuine, CVG understands.
Grand Theft Auto V release date rumours have been abundant ever since the game was first announced in November last year.The latest speculation was triggered by a purportedly leaked screenshot of Rockstar's info page that suggested the crime opus would be released before Christmas.
But CVG has been informed that the image has been doctored by a third-party and includes misleading information.
In July, Rockstar released a statement on the persistent GTA 5 release date rumours and stated that the company is not going to comment on every single rumour.
"There is going to be no shortage of non-stop hoaxes, faked footage and screens, rampant rumours and speculation," the company said at the time. "As a rule, we are not going to get into the game of confirming or denying each of these as they happen as there is simply too much of it. Half of them we don't even understand."
On Wednesday, CVG readers voted GTA V as their most anticipated game to close the current generation, followed closely by Kojima Productions' Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes.

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Treyarch not consulting on Black Ops Declassified gameplay

September 8th, 2012, 00:24 Posted By: wraggster

Activision's two key Call of Duty studios, Treyarch and Infinity Ward, have not been involved with the gameplay development of the PS Vita shooter Declassified.
John Rafacz, a communications manager at Treyarch, told CVG that "we have not been involved with the Vita version".Call of Duty Black Ops: Declassified, developed by the independent California studio Nihilistic, has frequently been publicised by Sony although Activision has been relatively quiet on the project.
This led to some suspicions that Activision was not publishing the game but instead licensing the brand to Sony. To clarify the matter, Activision issued a statement to CVG explaining:
"Activision is the publisher, but we also have a partnership with Sony to bundle Declassified with the PlayStation Vita."
It added that, with Declassified story taking place in the timeline between the original Black Ops and Black Ops II, Treyarch was "consulted to ensure accuracies within the fiction".
The Call of Duty Black Ops Declassified release date is set for November.

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Vita hack 'doesn't let you play pirate retail games'

September 8th, 2012, 00:25 Posted By: wraggster

Yifan Lu, the self-styled 'reverse engineer' attempting to write a loader enabling Vita to run homebrew software, has stressed that his efforts won't allow consumers to play pirate retail games.
Speaking to an indie Vita developer onTwitter, he said it's "physically impossible to decrypt or load retail games with my exploit".It was then put to him by the developer that his exploit will represent "an open door. Not for you, but for people who want to destroy us".
This is a possibility that Lu acknowledged in an interview with PlayStation Lifestyle.
"When the exploit goes public, it could be used as a stepping stone to analyze the system for farther exploits, including the more desirable kernel exploit, which if found would open the system up entirely (mods, CFW, maybe even Linux/Android, and unfortunately ISO loaders)," he told the site.
"However, it takes a lot of skills to find such an exploit, and those who I talked to with the necessary skills are all anti-piracy. However, not thinking of potential other exploits, this one can only be used to load homebrews and nothing else... Sony's system is really well designed and I believe a kernel exploit is very far away."
On his stance regarding piracy, Lu reiterated: "I am 100% against piracy and no tool I will make will benefit piracy. This tool, in fact, cannot be used for loading backups/pirated content even if I want to because of the physical limitations of the exploit (it is userland, no rights to decrypt/load games)."
Lu also said that he's only "at the very early" stages of being able to run homebrew on Vita. "The first step in fact. This means that readers will have to wait at least a couple of months before they can even see any demo at all."

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Why the PSP is not dead… yet

September 8th, 2012, 11:26 Posted By: wraggster

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I have been here in the scene for the last two years and I think that in that there was a “bussy” PSP Community. Right now, there is not that fuss but I think saying the PSP is dead is not right.


Firstly, the release of PRO-C with its cool online features (that Sony didn’t even try to give us because PSP Adhoc Party is not good enough), has opened a whole new world in the PSP gaming sector. Now, people are playing online and you can find up to 40-60 people connected at the same time in a day, which is not that bad considering it is not an official release by Sony and for that reason, people just do not try it. Also, Coldbird and Virtuos Flame have dedicated a lot of time on what, from my point of view, is the best PSP CFW for the unhackeable PSPs. The creation of Inferno and the PRO Online Client is what I think the PRO CFW needed to really show its full potential.

Then, as I talked in my last post, there are cool and fun Minis waiting for you to try them. For just a modic price you can get a really good game for your PSP, I mean, you have to get bored of Final Fantasy, Call of Duty, etc sometime. So, why don´t you try something more “arcade”, like Age of Zombies? Give them a chance, and do not think just because they are small they are going to be worse.

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Gravity Rush's Kat rumored for PS All-Stars Battle Royale spot

September 8th, 2012, 23:19 Posted By: wraggster

Kat, the star of Gravity Rush on Vita, is the latest character to be tipped for an appearance as a playable fighter in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
Numerous leaks for the cast of Sony's Smash Bros. challenger have come from official sources and this once again appears to be the case.A screenshot of what appears to be Kat's profile on the official Battle Royale website hassurfaced online. Admittedly, this is something that could be faked with a little effort, but the official site has already been at the centre of previous leaks, allegedly including previous hints of Kat's appearance.
We had a good look around the official site but found no evidence of Kat's appearance - if this was another 'leak', someone's plugged the hole.
In Gravity Rush, Kat has the ability to control gravity and unleash devastating mid-air attacks, as well as an assortment of your usual grounded melee combos. She'd make a good fit in the brawler.

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Sony 'working with' Bethesda to fix Skyrim Dawnguard PS3 DLC

September 8th, 2012, 23:21 Posted By: wraggster

Sony VP Adam Boyes has said the platform holder is working with Bethesda to overcome the issues impeding the release of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's Dawnguard expansion on PS3.
"We have a big, broad dev support team that works closely with Bethesda - and with all of our partners - to work with them to solve that any sort of issues they have along the way," Boyes told Kotaku when asked about game that's been plagued with issues on PS3 since launch."Of course, I always want everything to work always for everyone. I can't promise any kind of resolution or timeline but can say that everyone involved is trying their best to get this stuff working," he added.
Reassuring words for PS3 gamers who are understandably frustrated at the lack of the Dawnguard DLC on Sony's console.
Unfortunately, Bethesda says it won't release Dawnguard on PS3 until it's happy with how the content runs, and at the moment the developer says it's just "not satisfied yet".

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Silent Hill: Downpour PS3 forecasts a November 8 launch in Japan

September 8th, 2012, 23:56 Posted By: wraggster

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Wifihack 2.0

September 9th, 2012, 02:52 Posted By: wraggster

Wifihack 2.0 a pretty cool PSP Homebrew tool is now available for the PSP Homebrew community . This cool PSP Wifi Tool for the PlayStation Portable System will help users get the default password needed from the router . This version has been updated to address some bugs and offer better compatibility for the PSP CFW System . Below is a bit more information from the developer about this Wifihack 2.0 released . Controls:
X: Hacking WiFi.
[]: Update WiFis.
Fixed error in JAZZTEL_XXXX.
Code cleanup.
Added ICON0.
Remember that this PSP Wifi Hack tool will retrieve the default username and password from the router, So please do not tried to retrieve users router information that you do not own or have permission to do so as they could be some legal issue .

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OpenBricks 1.0

September 9th, 2012, 02:57 Posted By: wraggster

OpenBricks 1.0 a Tetris Type of homebrew game is now available for PSP users who have a homebrew enable PSP System . If you love playing tetris, Then you are going to love this newly release homebrew game known as OpenBricks which was made available a few hours ago to the PS3 Homebrew community . This awesome homebrew game has some pretty cool color graphics that users will enjoy as well as love to play .

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Runaway Car 1.2

September 9th, 2012, 03:16 Posted By: wraggster

Runaway Car 1.2 is the latest PSP Hmebrew game to be made available to the PlayStation Homebrew community . If you love playing Cool racing cars game, Then you are going to love this basic but well done homebrew game known as Runaway Car 1.2 which was made available to the PlayStation Community for PSP users who have a homebrew enable PSP System .

http://code.google.com/p/runawaycar-psp/

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What will happen to your PS Vita the day Sony’s servers go down

September 9th, 2012, 03:30 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/09/06/what-wi...rvers-go-down/

If you read this, it’s possible that like me, you are the owner of a PSVita. Maybe, like me, you were trying to be cheap, and got a 4GB memory card to go with it. Or maybe you’re super rich and got yourself a 32GB version, the best one can get with Sony’s Vita in those days of 50GB Movies and 3TB hard drives.



Maybe, like me, you realized the horrible truth fairly quickly: the average AAA title on the PSP was 500MB, while on the Vita, the average is at 1.5GB, with superstar games such as Uncharted going up to 3.5GB. Maybe, because you’re stupid like me, you thought going digital was a nice idea, and you found yourself cornered with your memory stick full of games less than 2 weeks after buying your Playstation Vita, with no room left to even copy a music album.



Oh, silly you and your first world problems, don’t cry: if you have too many games, you can easily delete them to make room, and since Sony allows you to re-download your purchased games from their services free of charge, you’ll be able to get them back whenever you want…

But imagine for one moment that Sony’s servers go down for a long period of time, either because of a technical issue, or due to business decisions (sarcastic details below on why this is not an unlikely scenario) :

You’re facing a situation where, if Sony’s servers get shut down at some point, whatever games are currently on your memory stick will be the only ones you can play ever again.

Some people will pretend that this is a general problem with digital downloads, not with the Vita in particular. This is incorrect. For example, the PSP has digital downloads too, but you can copy them as much as you want to your own hard drive, then copy them back to the PSP. This will work as long as you don’t mess with the PSP’s licenses for each game. (And I could also explain how the humble bundle digital downloads work DRM free, but that would be a low blow)

So, why not use the backup functionality of the PS Vita to do the same then? Well, I’m glad you ask, since this is where I was going: the only way to copy files back and forth between your Vita and your PC is through CMA, a tool which requires your PC to be connected to Sony’s servers constantly while you use it. At this point I assume you understand where I’m going: in a scenario where Sony’s servers are down for whatever reason, you can’t copy anything from and to your Vita, because the only tool to do that won’t let you. This, among other things, renders all your backups useless, and basically means whatever is not on your memory stick right now will never be able to run on your Vita ever again.



Yes, this is nothing new, it just hit me like lightning the other day, as I was asking myself “why do I hate the concept of CMA so much?”.

But hey, who am I fooling, there’s no chance in hell Sony’s servers will ever go down [Warning: sarcasm ahead]. It’s not like they’ve been in a bad financial shape for the past 4 years, or if they’ve ever had their PSN servers hacked and taken down for a long period of time, or if they have been closing many network game servers recently to reduce costs… And the Vita is doing such awesome sales so far, there’s no risk Sony will ever try to cut their loss on this device.

And even if that ever happened, come on, with a 32GB card, you can store up to 10 Vita games, and who has ever bought more than 10 games for a console, right? And those who do won’t mind spitting an additional $100 for a memory stick every time they run out of space, I’m sure. It’s not like Vita games are expensive anyway.

By the way, I digress, but this echoes one thing I’ve been saying for a while: digital games on the Vita should be much cheaper than the physical version. It’s only natural since storing them on a memory stick costs about $15 (average cost for 3GB on a Sony memory stick – by comparison the same costs about $2.5 on a sdcard), a 30% cost increase which is absorbed in the case of a physical purchase because you don’t have to pay for the storage.


No, unlike what the image at the top of the article seemed to imply, I am not coming with a terrifying revelation on how all the Vitas in the world will stop working if Sony’s systems ever go down. But I’m just realizing more strongly how we are not buying games anymore, we’re merely renting them, and the system is already in place to make sure it will not be easy to claim ownership of the digital products we bought, if something bad ever happens to Sony. Don’t you love how today, you can fire up your old Dreamcast, and it tells you you can’t play games because it can’t find a connection to Sega’s servers?

So, do you trust Sony’s servers that keep your Vita alive will still be here in 2 years? 5 years? 10 years? Would you rather stick to physical games? Or will you buy a new memory stick every time you download a new game? Do you expect Sony would release a “patch” to let you retrieve your backups with CMA, if they ever go bankrupt?

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Open CMA 1.80

September 9th, 2012, 03:37 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/09/07/release-open-cma-1-80/

We knew it was awful when firmware 1.80 rolled out disabling Open CMA. Everyone hard at work has made a new patch to fix all the problem and it works!





This release has some new features as well as some bugs but it’s working. To use this you MUST have the official CMA already uninstalled.

You can download the patch here. All credit goes to Virtuous Flame for his new version and special thanks to chesethief and ind3x-gosu from the forums with helping me on this.

How to install

The following tutorial by me and is also included in the download with more details and troubleshooting (just follow Jd8531′s tutorial text file).
1.Download the patch and extract the files to your desktop
2.Run “CMASetup”
3.After installation open the folder openCMA_vita_180 and copy everything to where the official CMA is installed at —>(C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Content Manager Assistant).
4.Run (<–DOUBLE CLICK)the “set.dll” file (run everything as administrator)
5.Then Run the batch file named “run”
6.It should load everything within the window and it’ll install CMAWatcher and CMADownloader in that same folder.
7.Run “CMAWatcher”, it should open and close quickly (you might not even seen it open)
8.After that let it rebuild the database if needed
9.You are all done!

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Snes9xTYL runs on VHBL for 1.80

September 9th, 2012, 12:39 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/09/07/video-s...vhbl-for-1-80/

In our impressive list of VHBL-compatible homebrews for this upcoming release, SNES emulator Snes9xTYL was missing, due to some inexplicable crash in the intro of the emulator. Sure, we had UO Snes9x just in case, but for some reason people tend to prefer Snes9xTYL.



Well dry your tears, because thanks to dev Thorwak Snes9xTYL is now joining the ranks of VHBL compatible games for Neur0n’s release!

It turns out the intro of the emulator was the only thing crashing, for some (so far) unknown reason, probably because of a bug in how VHBL handles certain sounds functions. Thorwak figured out that by simply removing the intro, he could get the emulator to load and run perfectly fine, so there you go!

This sounds like a simple achievement, but having tried myself several times to compile Snes9xTYL, I can tell you this is not fun. I’ll let Thorwak shime in and point people to his sources whenever he feels they are ok to share. In the meantime, enjoy the video, and a download link to the VHBL-compatible version.



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New Vulnerability Found in PSP Game

September 9th, 2012, 12:43 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/09/08/4th-times-the-charm/

A vulnerability has been found by Neur0n a few months ago in a PSP game, and this vulnerability has been leveraged to port VHBL in order for us to run PSP homebrews on the Vita. Following the request of many Vita owners, this announcement was postponed to wait for the release of Vita firmware 1.80, a firmware that brings PS1 compatibility.



As usual, we’ve let the members of our forums know about the vulnerability a few weeks in advance, in order to let them buy and download the game before Sony pulls it from their store. Protip: If you’re a member of our community and haven’t seen the announcement by now, you probably need your eyes checked (unless you joined in the past 24h).

Hmm, this one might hurt a little bit, given how successful this game is on the PSP…



Disclaimer: This announcement comes with absolutely no guarantee of you successfully running VHBL on your machine. We’ve been testing this for a while now, but there’s always the possibility something gets patched between this announcement and the release.

The game used for Neur0n’s VHBL port is Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, also known as Monster Hunter Portable 2ndG in Japan. Similar vulnerabilities exist in Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and in Monster hunter Portable 3rd, for which we also have VHBL ports (although I haven’t personally tested these ones).







We expect Sony to pull the game from their stores within the next 48h, so if you are interested in homebrews, you might want to buy that game asap before it is out. For those who worry that we are sacrificing one of the best titles of the PSP in the name of homebrews, please keep in mind that so far the PSP games used in VHBL exploits have always returned to the PSN after a patch has been pushed by Sony.

I don’t expect brainless gamers to read that far, so I assume this blog will, once again, be filled with comments in the form of “you guys are killing the vita”, “this will lead to piracy”, “why would you guys prefer to play pong over Uncharted?”, “hackers should die”, “OMFG leave Sony alone they already have so much trouble with the bad Vita sales” or, my favorite one “wait until Sony removes psp support from the Vita because of you”. But in case you read that far, I just want to remind everyone that VHBL has never led to PSP or Vita piracy in its 2 years and a half of existence.

Well, that’s it, hurry up and buy the game. It also happens to be a very popular franchise, so if only for the game itself, it’s probably worth it.

Oh, by the way, some people mentioned that the game only supports one save slot. This is true. If you actually want to play the game, you will have to regularly swap your own save and the VHBL save.

Once you have downloaded and installed the game, it is recommended that you do not update your console. In particular, do not update the CMA client. The VHBL files will be released, as usual, after the game gets pulled from the store.

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VHBL on the Monster Hunter exploit

September 9th, 2012, 12:45 Posted By: wraggster

Via http://wololo.net/2012/09/08/vhbl-on...exploit-video/

I forgot to upload the “proof of concept” video this morning when I announced Neur0n’s exploit for Monster Hunter, so there you go.

In this video, we are running the exploit (which is done by going to the “Download” section of the game), I then go to the “savegame” section of the memory stick in order to install some homebrews: Wagic and CSPSP. Wagic seems particularly long to install, but this is because its resource file is a single 40MB file which takes a little while to extract an copy. You can then see me play both Wagic and CSPSP on the PS Vita through the exploit.

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Hack disks True Blue?

September 9th, 2012, 12:54 Posted By: wraggster

via http://ps3.gx-mod.com/modules/news/a...p?storyid=3134

When True Blue was launched last year, he used special discs engraved to play games instead of Eboots.

Even after all the releases of the Team, there were some games that did not. Since last year a lot of teams have looked over and they have finally discovered the "BCA codes" that can now be burned to Blu-ray regular. At present, these codes leaked by 'OxweB' that can be seen with a magnifying glass, is not yet usable, but the rate things are going now, it could be that the latest security True Blue also falls. STRENGTH ARKHAM

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PlayStation Wonderbook starts augmenting your reality in November from $39

September 9th, 2012, 18:54 Posted By: wraggster

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Project PSIO - PS1 SD Card Adapter News

September 9th, 2012, 19:10 Posted By: wraggster

More exciting news today is the Project PSIO, a project to have a SD Card Adapter for the PS1, heres the details:

Project PlayStation Input Output (pronounced sigh-oh) is a project in development that will allow you to back up your PlayStation CD-ROM's and let you then play them directly off an SD card on the actual PlayStation 1 console.
We have also gone to the trouble of adding a PS1 Development section for the users who would like to program and share their work. This is basically a way of replacing the Yaroze server that Sony shutdown a few years ago, as well as preserving and providing a free and dependent backup of the SDK's, tools, manuals, code and much more that are impossible to now find.
Regards, The PSIO Team.

http://psio.com.au/

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Focus on Miemt PSP Coder

September 10th, 2012, 01:35 Posted By: wraggster

Another site brought back to life this year with all its downloads working was the PSP Coder Miemt, the coder of the very first GBA Emulator for the PSP, before exophase released the excellent GPSP.

Heres some of his releases:

PMP Simple Converter 0.08 Package Lite edition
GBA Emulator for PSP 0.01
MPH Firmware launcher 1.3.7u5u1
Simple UMD Loader Version 0.02 for PSP 1.50
PMPMOD_1_02_M4g3 Plus Edition

Check them out on his DCEmu Site here --> http://miemt.dcemu.co.uk/

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Focus on DXDev

September 10th, 2012, 01:59 Posted By: wraggster

DCEmu over the years has been home to some of the greatest coders and MikeDX the coder behind DXDev was the coder who released the First MAME and NEOGEO MVS Emulators for the PSP.

Check out his work and relive the history from the early days of the PSP Scene here --> http://dxdev.dcemu.co.uk/

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Large Sony dev team supporting Skyrim for PS3

September 10th, 2012, 14:38 Posted By: wraggster

But console giant cannot promise any kind of resolution or timeline to bug fixes, says VP Adam Boyes

Sony is providing a large development support team to work with Bethesda on fixing the various issues affecting blockbuster RPG Skyrim on PS3.
Since release on the console the title has been plagued by a number of bugs, such as struggling to cope with the amount of game data as a player progresses through their game.

Bethesda has also recently revealed that it was not positive it could solve the problems surrounding the release of DLC Dawnguard, which was released in June for Xbox 360 and PC owners.
The studio said it was unsure if it could make the game plable to an acceptable quality, given the sizeable content added in the expansion.
It also admitted that it could not commit too many developers to fix the issues as it had other expansions in the works.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/4...Skyrim-for-PS3

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Focus on Plynx PSP Coder

September 10th, 2012, 15:39 Posted By: wraggster

As im updating the sites on DCEmu im also giving some focus on some of the excellent coders who have made Homebrewing so special over the years.

Plynx is a coder who came to DCEmu and was the first to release an Atari Lynx and Atari Jaguar emulator for the PSP Console.

Chec out his site here --> http://plynx.dcemu.co.uk/

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Focus on PSMonkey - Coder of First 2 N64 Emulators for PSP, NG Pocket emu and Iris

September 10th, 2012, 15:47 Posted By: wraggster

PSMonkey an ex admin here at DCEmu and a great friend at that was responsible for the first 2 Nintendo 64 Emulators for the PSP, Nin64 and Monkey64, Also he was the coder of the first NeoGeo Pocket emulator and the coder of Quake 3 BSP Viewer, the rather excellent Iris and finally Sandbox.

All those releases were awesome and certainly put DCEmu on the map in the heyday of the PSP Scene.

Check them all out here --> http://nemo.dcemu.co.uk/

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PSP was overrun by ports admits Sony

September 10th, 2012, 19:56 Posted By: wraggster

A lot of content was 'thrown over' from the PS2 by developers to the handheld, says marketing VP

Sony’s PSP handheld was overrun by console ports affecting its sales in the West, the console giant’s marketing VP has admitted.
Speaking to Gamasutra, John Koller said that despite its success it became difficult to define the console’s unique capabilities due to a lack of original IP.

He said many developers had simply "thrown over" a lot of content to the handheld from the PS2, rather than taking advantage of the PSP’s own functionalities, and hoped this was a mistake Sony would not repeat with Vita.
"The issue that happened with PSP is we got overrun with ports," said Koller.
“It became very difficult for us to define what made PSP unique. The content development became a bit unstructured or decentralized, in that we got a lot of content that was on PlayStation 2 and got thrown over to the handheld."

http://www.develop-online.net/news/4...ts-admits-Sony

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US PS Plus subs get Max Payne 3 cheap, Double Dragon Neon free

September 10th, 2012, 21:57 Posted By: wraggster

Sony has some treats in store for US PlayStation Plus subscribers this week.
Anyone who spent their childhood putting fools in headlocks in Double Dragon on NES will want to check out Double Dragon Neon, which will be free to PS Plus users from tomorrow, November 11.Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game will also be free, and Jet Set Radio will get a 10 per cent discount.
PS Plus users will also be able to pick up Max Payne 3 for $40.49 - a 33 per cent discount on the usual $60 price (regular PSN users will get a still worthwhile 25 per cent discount).

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...gon-neon-free/

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Updated Open CMA, Fixes Errors

September 10th, 2012, 22:22 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/09/10/updated...-fixes-errors/

A new version of the Open CMA for Vita 1.80 has been made to easily fix the errors alot of people have been receiving. (This also fixes the music/video bug!)Tutorial for the new version:
- Extract the archive in your CMA folder (program files/Sony/Content Manager Assistant by default)
- Quit the CMA if it is running on your PC
- Execute “run.bat” (you need to run it in “Admin mode” on windows 7
- That’s it, now the CMA should run without requiring to be connected to the internet
Its recommended that you do use open CMA when the vhbl files come out. Open CMA for those who do not know is the content manager to copy files to the vita and back but without any internet connection unlike the official Sony CMA. It will also not sneak a patch or do a forced firmware update on your device if one comes out and it will not send any data to Sony about whats being copied, edited, transferred or crashes.

http://code.google.com/p/procfw/

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The final result of NEO Retro Coding Compo 2012

September 10th, 2012, 22:33 Posted By: wraggster

via http://www.neoflash.com/go/index.php...ing-compo-2012

The final result of NEO Retro Coding Compo 2012
	Here are the top 3 for the GAMEs division and APPs division of this compo, we don't know have too much entries join finally and this compo have top3 limit, so we have to set dual #3 winners for the game division,maybe next year we should increase the winners rank to top 5
	more info:
	http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,7504.0.html
	The Game division, total 20 entries	Author
No.1	[SNES Game] MazezaM Challenge	By alekmaul
No.2	[GBA Game] A Werewolf Tale - WIP	By genecyst
No.3	[PCE Game] Island Adventure	By sarang
No.3	[N64 Game] Yeti3D Pro	By ChillyWilly
	The App division, total 11 entries	Author
No.1	[NDS App] FPS Maker	By smealum
No.2	[NDS App] AnimEDS: Animation Editor for DS	By PypeBros
No.3	[N64 App] ControllerTest	By sanni
	Congrats to all winners,please tell me what prize you want in this topic:
	http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,7503.0.html
	See you are Aug. 2013 >

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[Rumor] Date for PS3 4K

September 10th, 2012, 22:35 Posted By: wraggster

Between 20 and 23 September, the Home Japan Tokyo Game Show (TGS) or Sony will present the model in 4K is rumor stage for several months now.

Some positions NeoGAF forum, let thought the release date would be September 28, 2012. This new revision is only rumors in recent months, rumors imply that the console would be based on 16GB FLASH memory, a lid and Flip low storage capacity. Rumors also speak Model 250 GB and 500 GB Answer weekend 23.

http://ps3.gx-mod.com/modules/news/a...p?storyid=3135

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Hulu's PlayStation 3 app upgraded, is the first for the living room

September 11th, 2012, 11:44 Posted By: wraggster

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3G Vita headed to Canada via Rogers on Oct. 2, Canadian gamers remain non-plussed

September 12th, 2012, 01:35 Posted By: wraggster

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Virtua Fighter's Pai Chan confirmed for Dead or Alive 5

September 13th, 2012, 01:34 Posted By: wraggster

Pai Chan from Sega's Virtua Fighter series will be one of three VF stars to feature as playable characters in Dead or Alive 5.
She joins fellow VF faces Akira and and Sarah Bryant in Tecmo's latest fighting game - all of whom turned up in a leaked roster list which hackers extracted from the code of the DOA5 demo.The first screenshots of Pai's DOA5 appearance (pictured) came via Famitsu(thanks Siliconera), showing the kung fu lass facing off against old man Gen Fu.
Tecmo earlier this week officially confirmed an all-new character for DOA5 - MMA fighter Mila.Check out a trailer through here.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ad-or-alive-5/

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New Little King's Story Vita US release date nailed

September 13th, 2012, 01:34 Posted By: wraggster

Konami has finally confirmed a Little King's Story release date in US for eager Vita owners - October 2.
With a brand new story, New Little King's Story on Vita is a download-only sequel to the critically acclaimed Wii RPG, Little King's Story, which didn't sell nearly as many copies as it deserved.According to the official PR, "New Little King's Story follows players as they assume the role of King Corobo, tasked with reclaiming his kingdom from the Devil King, "The Nightmare." Players will experience an incredible journey as they visit seven different kingdoms and battle against evil dark lords that have captured the royal princesses."
New screenshots of the game in action were released last week. Have a look.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...e-date-nailed/

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EU PS Store Update: Jet Set Radio, FIFA 12, Walking Dead: Episode 3

September 13th, 2012, 01:42 Posted By: wraggster

Sony has detailed the latest European PlayStation Store content update, which includes the release of Jet Set Radio for PS Plus members, as well as F1 2012 and FIFA 13 demos, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier DLC and more.
Here's the full list:
PlayStation Plus

• Scott Pilgrim vs The World The Game - 100% discount
• Jet Set Radio - 1 week exclusive to PS Plus members with reduced price of £5.49/€6.99
• Max Payne 3 + R* Pass - 30% discount, two week offer

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PlayStation Plus cloud storage increased to 1GB

September 13th, 2012, 01:43 Posted By: wraggster

Sony is today increasing the cloud storage limit offered to PlayStation Plus members from 150MB to 1GB.
The increase will come into effect after downloading PS3 firmware version 4.25."After you've installed the update, simply go to the Saved Data Utility under the Game column of the XMB," Sony says. "From there you can access the Online Storage folder and find any existing game saves already uploaded, as well as the increase in space to 1GB.
"So set your automatic download to upload every game save for every game you play, and enjoy the additional breathing room. You can also continue to use this feature to selectively upload game saves you specify."
The platform holder is currently offering an annual PlayStation Plus subscription at a 25 per cent discount. Running until September 19, the offer lets you to pick up a 365 day pass for £29.99/€37.49, down from the regular price of £39.99/€49.99.
During its Gamescom conference last month, Sony revealed plans to bring PlayStation Plus to Vita later this year.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...reased-to-1gb/

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Randy Pitchford still wants Borderlands 2 on the Vita

September 13th, 2012, 01:51 Posted By: wraggster

Gearbox boss man Randy Pitchford has once again hinted that he'd love to see Borderlands 2 on the PlayStation Vita, a console he describes as "a really neat piece of hardware".He first proclaimed his desire to Eurogamer when he came to Brighton for the Rezzed show in July. "We're too busy to develop it ourselves," he said. "But I know there are a lot of talented developers who could take our code, our source and our content and perhaps create something like that."Clearly, the subject is still on his mind as he said almost the exact same thing this week while appearing as a guest on IGN's Up at Noon."I think it would be awesome to have Borderlands 2 on the Vita but I'm really busy. We can't do it ourselves," Pitchford explains.

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He would, however, be quite happy to work with another studio on the project, and once again urged Sony to help make it a reality."If some other studio was capable and could be trusted by us, and by a publishing partner, and by Sony, and someone wanted to invest in making that happen? I think Sony should step up and make that happen," he said. "I don't think it would cost a lot, relatively speaking, and I know there's a lot of talented people who have learned how to use the Vita and could do a great job at that. If that machine started to align itself, I wouldn't be the hold up. I would actually be an enabler."He went on describe his "dream scenario" of PlayStation 3 and Vita interaction."Imagine you could be playing the game on your PS3 and then, OK, I need to go on a road trip or I have to go to work or something. When I take my Vita with me, I have access to the same cloud save and can continue my character. Can you imagine how amazing that would be?"Don't get your hopes up too high, as it sounds like a Vita edition is still very much in the folder marked "Nice Idea But...", although Pitchford finished by saying he meets with Sony regularly and hopes the subject will come up again.In the meantime, why not count the hours until Borderlands 2 launches for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on September 21st?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-2-on-the-vita

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Killzone HD to get standalone PSN release

September 14th, 2012, 01:26 Posted By: wraggster

The original PS2 Killzone game will arrive with shiny new HD visuals and Trophies as part of a Killzone Trilogy bundle disc next month. But what if you already own Killzone 2 and 3?
Sony has you covered. The platform holder has confirmed that Killzone HD will be released as a standalone download via the PlayStation Store simultaneously with the Trilogy release.For US gamers that's October 23, and a day later for UK/EU/Australia.
The PS2 remake will cost $14.99/€14.99/£11.99/AU$23.95, and come with the same up-rezzed visuals and new Trophy components as the retail release.
You can get a full list of those Trophies on the PS Blog, if you're interested.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...e-psn-release/

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Sony: 'No new info' on Counter-Strike: GO Euro release date

September 14th, 2012, 01:37 Posted By: wraggster

Sony has apologised to European PS3 owners still waiting for the PSN release of Valve's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Addressing fan questions regarding the game's whereabouts after it remained a no-show following the latest PlayStation Store update, Jawad Ashraf of the PS Store team said: "Sorry. It's the standard stock response from me again - I have no information to share."We contacted Sony about the matter today but received the same response. We've also left a message with Valve in the hope of getting an update.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive launched three weeks ago on PC and Xbox 360 globally, and on PS3 in the US, where it went on to top PSN sales in August.
Sony's European arm said on August 22: "We hope to resolve this issue as quickly as possible, and will let you know if the situation changes."
We said in our 8/10 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive review, which went live last month: "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a great introduction to the renowned shooter series, but veterans may feel there simply isn't enough new material here to justify the encore."

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Borderlands 2 getting simultaneous digital release on PSN

September 16th, 2012, 00:50 Posted By: wraggster

PS3 owners can choose between either a physical or digital purchase when Borderlands 2 hits UK retail next Friday (September 21^st).
Sony has confirmed that the game will be released on the PlayStation Store at the same time it arrives at retail.
Furthermore, the game can also be pre-ordered on PSN right now.
In theory, the game will cost the same online as it does on the High Street too, sticking rigidly to the £49.99 RRP.
However, the PS3 version can already be had for as little as £35.85and will likely be offered at around the £40 mark by some retailers.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/borde...on-psn/0102931

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Final Fantasy XIV PS3 reveal next month, teases producer

September 16th, 2012, 21:11 Posted By: wraggster

Square Enix has said we'll be treated to our first glimpse of the elusive PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIV next month.
We were surprised when Square promised the PS3 version for a 2012 release (hell, we're shocked its still coming at all), and now producer Naoki Yoshida has said the first PS3 screenshots and info for the revived MMO, now subtitled 'A Realm Reborn', will be released next month."We'll be releasing the initial information [on the PS3 version] around mid-October," Yoshida told fans in a recent online chat session. "I believe we'll have screenshots first, but please hang in there," he added (thanks Siliconera).
According to its announcement last year, Square will release the PS3 version of FFXIV between October and December of 2012. To coincide with the release there will be a play-for-free period for the game as well as a mandatory client update for PC users.

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First NBA Live 13 in-game trailer comes with delay confirmation

September 16th, 2012, 21:12 Posted By: wraggster

Good news and bad news. Good - here's the first official in-game trailer of NBA Live 13. Bad - the game has been delayed.
"Many fans have been anticipating an early October launch, but our plan is to release at a later date," EA has said in a recent blog update."We will share more information in the future," it added, without offering a reason for the delay or, crucially, even a rough ETA.
Not good news, especially since this is supposed to be EA's triumphant return to the sport since the disastrous last-minute canning of NBA Elite 11 back in 2010.
Anyway, here's what it'll look like when the disc is eventually spinning in your console. Sound off with your impressions below.



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Namco trademark points to US release for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle

September 17th, 2012, 02:12 Posted By: wraggster

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Vita puzzle platformer Dokuro chalks up PSN release in Oct.

September 17th, 2012, 02:22 Posted By: wraggster

Dokuro, a very cute puzzle platformer from Grandia developer Game Arts, will be released on Vita in North America in October. The PSN exclusive game stars a little skeleton man who attempts to rescue a princess from the Dark Lord who kidnapped her ... and who happens to be Dokuro's own master.

Dokuro must move ahead of the Princess, manipulating the environment and solving puzzles to create a safe path for her. Later, you gain access to abilities, like a "Hero Transformation" that lets you fight, and chalks that allow you to redraw the chalk drawing-esque environment.

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/14/vi...elease-in-oct/

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New PSP homebrew: Worm Warrior

September 17th, 2012, 08:43 Posted By: cdoty

I ported my Worm Warrior game to the PSP:

Worm Warrior for the PSP

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WipEout to be resurrected by Sony's Evolution Studio

September 17th, 2012, 22:32 Posted By: wraggster

Sony is to hand over the WipEout IP to UK developer Evolution Studios, MCV understands.
The series appeared to have come to an end with the closure of fellow Sony studio and series creator Studio Liverpool last month.
However, the IP will now live on, a source close to the matter has said, with MotorStorm creators Evolution Studios assuming control of the franchise. It is unclear whether or not this will impact the development of future MotorStorm titles.
The Twitter account for PS3 title WipEout 2048 tweeted the following earlier this afternoon:

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Dragon Age 3: Inquisition due for release in 2013

September 17th, 2012, 22:33 Posted By: wraggster

EA has announced a third game in its 8m plus selling RPG series Dragon Age.
Called Dragon Age 3: Inquisition, the game is powered by EA’s Frostbite 2 engine and has been in production since 2010.
"The Dragon Age team has been working on Dragon Age 3: Inquisition for almost two years now," BioWare Edmonton and Montreal GM Aaryn Flynn stated. "We've been poring over player feedback from past games and connecting directly with our fans. They haven't held back, so we're not either.
“With Dragon Age 3: Inquisition, we want to give fans what they're asking for — a great story with choices that matter, a massive world to explore, deep customization and combat that is both tactical and visceral.
"At the same time, we know we need new technology to truly make this vision become fully realized. And we've been working with DICE to make Frostbite 2 the foundation for the engine that is going to power Dragon Age 3."
Dragon Age 3: Inquisition is die for release in late 2013. EA has not specified what formats the game will be released on.
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Harvest Moon PS2 classics hit PSN tomorrow

September 18th, 2012, 02:02 Posted By: wraggster

Fans of Natsume's charming life sims will get a dual-serving of PS2 classics to grab from the US PS Store this week.
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition was the enhanced PS2 version of the GameCube game of the same name (minus the 'Special Edition' bit obviously), and lets you live life on a farm, get married, have a kid and generally have a merry old time.The lesser known River King: A Wonderful Journey also from Natsume is a 'socially oriented fishing RPG', you go on a quest to catch the elusive 'River King' fish, working your way up from basic gear to all the smartest fishing tackle a little anime fisherman could ever want.
They arrive on the US PS Store tomorrow, along with Borderlands 2, Jet Set Radio, F1 2012 and a Resident Evil 6 demo, to name a few of the highlights.
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LittleBigPlanet Vita launch trailer is in

September 18th, 2012, 02:04 Posted By: wraggster

LittleBigPlanet Vita is out this week and Sony's released one last trailer to show why you should be all over it.
PSM3 magazine's Andy Hartup called LBP Vita "the best version of LBP on any format", and considering the PS3 games are brilliant, that's not a statement to be taken lightly.This launch trailer offers just a taster of what's in store, and in just one minute of footage it demonstrates more ingenuity that many games do in their entirety.
It's out in UK on September 19 and US on September 25.

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Nights into Dreams and Sonic Adventure 2 dated, priced

September 18th, 2012, 02:07 Posted By: wraggster

Sega has confirmed release dates and pricing for the HD remakes of Nights into Dreams and Sonic Adventure 2.
They'll be available to download from the PlayStation Network on October 3 for £6.49 and from Xbox Live on October 5 for 800 Microsoft Points (£6.85).As a bonus, Nights into Dreams will feature the content included in the 1996 holiday-themed expansion Christmas Nights.
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Mode DLC will be available for 240 Microsoft Points (£2.06), offering maps and characters from the GameCube version of the title, including Chao Karate.
Jet Set Radio HD is launching this week for non-PlayStation Plus members

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Retailer promotion teases 'new PS3 console'

September 18th, 2012, 02:08 Posted By: wraggster

More evidence appears to point to the introduction of a new PS3 model later this month.
According to Polygamia, the image to the right was featured in a recent promotional newsletter sent out by a Polish retailer.Further rumours suggest Sony is planning to launch a new PS3 model offering 12GB of flash memory priced at €199, alongside a beefy 500GB PS3 costing €299.
Last week a German online retailer reportedly claimed on Facebook that a new PS3 model offering 12GB of flash memory will hit stores in October.
At the same time, Wedbush analyst Michael Analyst suggested "Sony is starving the channel" of existing PS3 models ahead of a new hardware introduction.
In July it emerged that Sony Computer Entertainment had submitted what appear to be plans for anew PS3 model to the Federal Communications Commission.

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F1 2012 Screenshots

September 18th, 2012, 13:20 Posted By: wraggster

The New F1 game is coming soon, today we have a ton of screens for you to see, only thing you need to do is check them out via comments. Tell us what you think, for those of you really into F1, whos gonna win it this year?

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PS Vita Charts

September 18th, 2012, 14:03 Posted By: wraggster

(Full price) Week ending 15 September 2012

POS.		TITLE	PUBLISHER	LAST WEEK	WEEKS ON CHART
1	-	FIFA FOOTBALL	EA SPORTS	1	30
2	-	UNCHARTED: GOLDEN ABYSS	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	2	30
3		METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION	KONAMI	6	12
4		RESISTANCE: BURNING SKIES	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	7	16
5		RAYMAN ORIGINS	UBISOFT	4	30
6		LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES	WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE	8	13
7		EVERYBODY'S GOLF	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	5	30
8		MODNATION RACERS: ROAD TRIP	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	9	30
9		MORTAL KOMBAT	WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE	3	20
10		LEGO HARRY POTTER: YEARS 5-7	WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE	13	20
11		GRAVITY RUSH	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	10	14
12		ASPHALT INJECTION	UBISOFT	14	29
13		LITTLE DEVIANTS	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	11	30
14		WIPEOUT 2048	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	17	30
15		RIDGE RACER	NAMCO BANDAI GAMES	20	30
16		UNIT 13	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	15	29
17		LUMINES ELECTRONIC SYMPHONY	UBISOFT	16	19
18	re	DUNGEON HUNTER: ALLIANCE	UBISOFT	-	22
19		F1 2011

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PSP Charts

September 18th, 2012, 14:03 Posted By: wraggster

(Full price) Week ending 15 September 2012

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PlayStation 3 Charts

September 18th, 2012, 14:04 Posted By: wraggster

(Full price) Week ending 15 September 2012

POS.		TITLE	PUBLISHER	LAST WEEK	WEEKS ON CHART
1	-	SLEEPING DOGS	SQUARE ENIX	1	5
2	new	TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2	NAMCO BANDAI GAMES	-	1
3		LONDON 2012: THE OFFICIAL VIDEO GAME	SEGA	2	12
4		LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES	WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE	6	13
5	new	NHL 13	EA SPORTS	-	1
6		MAX PAYNE 3	ROCKSTAR	19	18
7		MADDEN NFL 13	EA SPORTS	3	3
8		CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3	ACTIVISION	4	45
9		DARKSIDERS II	THQ	5	4
10		SPEC OPS: THE LINE	2K GAMES	22	12
11		TOM CLANCY'S GHOST RECON: FUTURE SOLDIER	UBISOFT	7	17
12		THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN	ACTIVISION	9	12
13		UNCHARTED 3: DRAKE'S DECEPTION	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	12	46
14		BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY	WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE	8	48
15		SNIPER ELITE V2	505 GAMES	11	20
16		TRANSFORMERS: FALL OF CYBERTRON	ACTIVISION	10	4
17		BATTLEFIELD 3	EA GAMES	13	47
18		FIFA 12	EA SPORTS	15	51
19		TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 13	EA SPORTS	21	25
20		SAINTS ROW: THE THIRD	THQ	18	44
21		[PROTOTYPE 2]	ACTIVISION	16	21
22		TALES OF GRACES F	NAMCO BANDAI GAMES	14	3
23		DIRT SHOWDOWN	CODEMASTERS	27	17
24	-	UFC UNDISPUTED 3	THQ	24	31
25		METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION	KONAMI	17	29
26	new	BATTLEFIELD 3 PREMIUM	EA GAMES	-	1
27		THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM	BETHESDA SOFTWORKS	20	45
28	re	RESIDENT EVIL: OPERATION RACCOON CITY	CAPCOM	-	11
29		MASS EFFECT 3	EA GAMES	23	27
30	re	SORCERY	SONY COMPUTER ENT.	-	13

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SaveGame Saver 0.6

September 18th, 2012, 14:19 Posted By: wraggster

SaveGame Saver 0.6 has been updated and released to the PlayStation Homebrew community . This cool PSP Homebrew application known as SaveGame Saver was develop and released by PSP Developer fede94boss who has decided to released this updated PSP Homebrew application to the PlayStastion Homebrew community for PSP users .

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ZombiesInf2

September 18th, 2012, 14:28 Posted By: wraggster

ZombiesInf2 is now available for download . This is a pretty awesome well done homebrew game which has been updated and made available to PSP users who have a homebrew enable PSP system . This cool Zombie homebrew game Zombies Inf 2 has been updated with lots of new features as well as certain bug fixes from previous version for stability and compatibility for the latest PSP Homebrew game . Below is a bit more information from the developer about this PSP homebrew game for the PSP system . This game was posted on a russion blog by zharikov.vitalik . The game seem to be in Russian language . But the game play should be easy to understand and play .

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PS Vita native “Hello World” by YifanLu (Video -Got Pulled)

September 18th, 2012, 14:45 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/09/13/video-p...ld-by-yifanlu/

Developer YifanLu, who recently revealed he has been working a Vita usermode exploit, is teasing us with a 3D demo running through (I assume) his work in progress “Usermode Vita Loader” (UVL). Video below.
This video is no visual proof that he is actually running an exploit, but based on his reputation and previous work on the Xperia Play and on the Kindle, you can definitely trust that this is not a simple “hey look, I can use PSM” type of video.
The video itself is quite impressive compared to the “cube” sample we have been used to in the unofficial SDK back in the days of the PSP. Clearly, the Vita has some horsepower willing to be fully exploited. Yes, if, as many people assume, this is an exploit within the code of Playstation Mobile, it will have the limitations that come with this application. After all, this is yet another sandboxed system on the Vita, but it looks much more promising than the PSP emulator, in terms of raw power and I/O access.
Some fear that this could lead to bad things to the Vita, although it has been stated many times by Yifanlu himself that this cannot possibly be used to pirate Vita games (try to think rationally: Sony gave away their PSM sdk for free to hundreds of thousands of developers, do you think they would have done that if there was a tiny bit of possibility that this system could be used to remove the protection of Vita games? Let’s be serious one minute). I, on the other hand, fear that this exploit could be easily patched by Sony the way they patch game exploits on the PSP emulator. The main difference being that we have dozens of exploits in PSP games, while this one for now, is quite unique.
There is no word on a release for this now. In the meantime, Monster Hunter is still available on the PSN, and will let you run VHBL

https://twitter.com/yifanlu/status/246142012426969088

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Neur0n explains how to run VHBL on Monster Hunter 3rd

September 18th, 2012, 14:47 Posted By: wraggster

Some of you have been using Monster Hunter 3rd in order to run VHBL. It has occurred to me that the instructions on the VHBL download page are specific to the other versions of the Monster Hunter series, and do not apply to Monster hunter 3rd. Neur0n has published an explanation on his twitter account.
This might be useful for those of you who got Monster Hunter 3rd either in Japan, or on the HK store which seems to ship the Japanese version of the game. Here is the process (roughly translated from Japanese, please keep in mind that I do not own the game):

1. select ‘CONTINUE’
2. go to Guild hall
3. talk with pink woman
4. select ‘イベントクエスト’
5. select ‘下位クエスト’
6. press left when quest appear

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Is that a JTAG port on the Vita?

September 18th, 2012, 14:49 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/09/15/is-that...t-on-the-vita/

Japanese developer goroh_kun, known locally for some of his work on Android, recently started investigating the PlayStation Vita. A few days ago he wondered if any hacker had seriously started to look into the Vita’s hardware (the answer was no, at least not publicly).

Yesterday he published a simple photo of the Vita CPU (picture below), showing what could be a JTAG port on the CPU. For those of you who don’t know, JTAG is a standard for electronics debugging (yay wikipedia!). It is used mostly for testing circuit boards (such as a console motherboards) during hardware development phases, but also in production, in order to randomly test retail units for quality control, or to check damaged units.


Could these 8 silver squares close to the CPU be JTAG ports?

Because JTAG allows anybody to communicate with the hardware, it is, of course, used by hackers as well to learn more about the hardware they are dealing with.

Therefore a working JTAG port on a Sony console would probably be very useful for hackers, but it would also be extremely surprising. Sony has been known to factory-deactivate JTAG ports from their consoles in the past, so such a mistake would be extremely unlikely. But we’ll see

One interesting side-effect of this is that we are seeing more people coming from non-console hacking worlds into the Vita realm. Yifanlu was mostly known for work on the Kindle, and goroh_kun usually lurks in the Android scene. If anything, I would say that Sony’s consoles have gained a reputation of being fairly secure, and this attracts hardware and software hackers looking for a challenge.

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Clearing the confusion. VHBL, UVLoader and Kexploits

September 18th, 2012, 14:51 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/09/17/clearin...and-kexploits/

There seems to be a lot of confusion when it comes to mods lately, there’s a lot going on and it can be quite daunting trying to follow it all, especially if you’re new to the scene. I hope that by writing this we can keep the forum flooding to a minimum. let’s try to understand what these mods are and what they aim to do, if only to get a better perspective.


First we have the flagship mod of our wonderful site, VHBL. being sort of a community Developer project it combines the work of many talented people including: Neur0n, Wololo, m0skit0, JJS etc..
It’s main purpose is to run Homebrew applications on your PS Vita, in the PSP emulator on board the machine.
What it can do: Run certain homebrew applications such as Wagic, Doom, and a whole lot of emulators for various systems.
What it can not do: Run PSP ISO’s, Vita backups, Make you a cup of coffee while it brushes your teeth.

Now let’s move on to UV Loader, Developer/Hacker YifanLu has apparently discovered a way to access User Mode on the PS Vita, Which is great news…..for the future.
He is currently seeking assistance from talented Developers, so if any are reading this head to his thread here

What it will be able to do: Run Homebrew applications in the vita environment, using many more resources than the PSP Emulator on board the vita.
What it will not be able to do: Run backups of Vita games, install CFW or give you a magic bag of pixie dust that makes your mortal enemies cry at the sight of you.
all jokes aside, I would like to point out that it will NOT incorporate piracy. also, there is no release window as of yet so it could be a ways off from getting into our ready hands.

KXPLOITS PSP ISOZ OMG!!!!11!!

Some talented people in the scene have created what are called kernel Exploits, or, Kexploits for short. one example of this is Davee and his exploit that allows him to run Iso backups of PSP games(not Vita).
What it can do: Run PSP ISOs, Load almost any Homebrew written for PSP(in my understanding), and perhaps install CFW for the PSP emulator on the Ps Vita…that’s a mouthful.
Bottom line though, None of these kxploits are being shared by the Devs who have created them, and for a few good reasons. One is that by one releasing this too early, all of them could be patched and that’s it. All their work down the drain. Two, piracy, people would no longer support the company in which we all want to see succeed lately. and three, they may just well not be ready for user based application just yet.
at the end of the day you have to see that these kexploits were shown to prove the concept, not to tease you or for devs to feel like elitists.

Some of this may be speculation on my part but it is from my own understanding of what’s happening in the scene right now.
I hope this gives a clearer line on where one mod begins and another ends and what they aim to do with said mods.

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PSVita Firmware 1.81 Released, patches VHBL

September 18th, 2012, 14:52 Posted By: wraggster

via http://wololo.net/2012/09/18/vita-fi...-patches-vhbl/

As expected, the latest PS Vita firmware update is a “security release” which will prevent you from running VHBL through Monster Hunter. It still remains to be confirmed if all games of the series have been patched, but I’m pretty sure the answer will be yes.

Does this mean you cannot use VHBL anymore? No! As long as you stay on firmware 1.80 (and assuming you did Buy one of the Monster Hunter games when it was still time), you can use Open CMA to copy your homebrews to the Vita without upgrading. If your Vita (or CMA) insist that you update to 1.81, don’t lose hope. I have been told that the Vita can “forget” it saw the latest update if you hard-reset it. Or was it that you need to reset factory settings? Well, either way, try to not put yourself into a situation where the Vita asks for an update, but if it happens, be sure to try and reset it before you decide your console is doomed to upgrade.

Of course, you might want to update to 1.81 in order to be able to connect to the PSN. If you do this, you will lose access to VHBL through the Monster Hunter exploit. There might be other VHBL releases in the future to bring compatibility with this new firmware, but we don’t have anything scheduled yet, and one thing is sure, we will not be able to magically revive the exploit from Monster Hunter, so don’t even ask, and update at your own risk.

For those of you who decide to stay on 1.80 for VHBL, openCMA is currently the only way to copy homebrews to your Vita.

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Dc universe online’s hand of fate dlc pack now available

September 18th, 2012, 22:15 Posted By: wraggster

Sony today announced that Hand of Fate, the fifth downloadable content (DLC) pack forDC Universe™ Online (DCUO), is now available for download on the PC and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. At the bidding of Doctor Fate or the evil sorcerer Felix Faust, players will undertake Operations – six intense new episodes designed for group play featuring three Heroic and three Villainous – that will take high level players back out to the iconic, open-world cities of Gotham City and Metropolis. Additionally, a wealth of new side missions will be featured, providing more fun and depth to the game’s storyline and world. Hand of Fate also provides players with new Utility Belt Attachments and debuts magic-powered Legends PvP characters, bringing a tale of magic and mystery to life.

“The fact that this is our fifth major downloadable content pack showcases our commitment to expanding the immersive player experience through regular content updates,” said Jens Andersen, creative director on DC Universe Online. “Hand of Fate is unlike anything we’ve offered to date. From the very beginning, it was designed to draw players back out to our massive open-world cities and allow them to experience them in new, unexpected ways. We are pleased with what we have come up with and can’t wait to hear what the players think.”

Hand of Fate provides players with hours of new adventures and content:

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IGN Live gives FIFA ’13 its first run out

September 18th, 2012, 22:27 Posted By: wraggster

IGN, will give gamers their first chance to see EA Sport’s FIFA ’13 in full – as the multi-million selling series is the subject of the latest IGN LIVE stream this Thursday, September 20^th from 16.00 to 18.00 BST.

IGN’s experts will demonstrate key features of FIFA ’13 during the live stream, giving fans the inside track on the eagerly anticipated game ahead of its European release on Friday, 28^th September.

IGN Live presents: FIFA ’13 is hosted by IGN’s UK Editor-in-Chief Alex Simmons, alongside Games Writer Daniel Krupa, who reviewed the latest instalment for IGN. Stay tuned for surprise guests, stopping by to provide their own insights into the beautiful game, while exclusively revealing their FIFA tactics.

Throughout the live stream, IGN’s experts will answer FIFA ’13 viewer questions – with the chance to win some special prizes.

The live stream will culminate in the first screening of IGN’s FIFA ’13 video review – the definitive verdict on the latest release in EA Sport’s ground breaking series.

Alex Simmons, UK Editor-in-Chief, IGN, said:

“FIFA is one of gaming’s biggest annual releases, so we’re excited to be lifting the lid on its new features and answering your question as we get ready to reveal IGN’s score for this year’s instalment. Watch the stream this Thursday as we’ll have some prizes and a few surprises up our sleeves.”

IGN Live presents: FIFA ’13 is streamed live from 16.00 BST to 18.00BST on IGN.com on Thursday 20^th September. You can send your FIFA ’13 questions now on Twitter to @ignuk with using the hashtag #ignfifa.

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PS3 super slim leak suggests imminent reveal

September 18th, 2012, 22:37 Posted By: wraggster

New console model could be revealed at Tokyo Game Show

A new super slim model of the PS3 could be released later this month after a Polish retailer sent out a promotional teaser for a new system.
As reported by Polygamia, the teaser included a blacked out PS3 with a question mark on the console, suggesting an imminent reveal of the new SKU.

A likely time for unveiling could be at the Tokyo Game Show which begins on Thursday, at which Sony is also expected to unveil a newvirtual reality headset.
Previous rumours have claimed that the new super slim model could come with as little as 12GB flash memory, at a cost of around £200. It has also been suggested the new console will ship alongside a large 500GB PS3 model.
Reports of a new SKU surfaced in July after a filing to the US Federal Communications Commission suggested a potential new 4000 series – the CECH-4001x – was in development.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/4...mminent-reveal

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Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection 4 dated for PS3/PC

September 18th, 2012, 23:07 Posted By: wraggster

Infinity Ward has confirmed that Modern Warfare 3's Content Collection 4 DLC drop will arrive on PS3 and PC on October 10.
Content Collection 4 is the last DLC for MW3 before the baton is passed to Black Ops 2. The DLC pack features five multiplayer maps; Parish, Gulch, Boardwalk, Offshore and Decommission.Xbox players got access to the latest mapsearlier this month following a short delay caused by Xbox Live problems.
The developer is yet to confirm exactly when CoD Elite members on PS3/PC will get access to their last three maps, but expect it to be certainly before October 10.
Five gameplay videos - one for each of the new maps - can be watched here.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ted-for-ps3pc/

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Wonderbook: Book of Spells

September 19th, 2012, 12:25 Posted By: wraggster

Heres some artwork of the soon to be arriving on PS3 title:

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NEW SMALLER AND LIGHTER PLAYSTATION3 TO HIT THE UK ON SEPTEMBER 28th

September 19th, 2012, 12:30 Posted By: wraggster

Sony today announced the new PlayStation®3(PS3®) computer entertainment system, featuring a new design and a downsized form factor, will become available in the UK on September 28^th and October 12^th. The new PS3 will come in two models, a 500GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) version (launching September 28^th), and a newly added 12GB flash memory model (launching October 12^th).

Completely redesigning the internal design architecture, the internal volume and weight of the new PS3 is reduced by more than half compared to the very first PS3 model with a 60GB HDD, and by 20 % and 25% respectively compared to the current PS3. By adopting a sliding disk cover, the new PS3 continues with the characteristic sleek curved simple body design, which fits various places in the home and enables users to enjoy an array of entertainment content.

With the extra HDD capacity which has been extended from 320GB and 160GB, users can store and enjoy more and more entertainment content including games, music, photos, and video on the new PS3. In addition, the new PS3 with 12GB flash memory offers opportunities to experience the world of PlayStation® at an affordable price point. Users can also expand the storage capacity of the new PS3 with 12GB flash memory by connecting a dedicated HDD (250GB) to be released concurrently with the new PS3^*1. In addition, a variety of accessories will be introduced by SCE to meet various kinds of needs from users including a vertical stand that offers more flexibility in how the new PS3 can be displayed^*2.

Since the launch of PS3 in November 2006, the number of Blu-ray based titles has reached more than 3,300 titles and downloadable PS3 games to 4,100^*3 titles worldwide, with the support from a broad range of third party developers and publishers. In addition to this extensive software title line-up, exciting and attractive new titles are to be released from third party developers and publishers as well as SCE Worldwide Studios, including Call of Duty Black Ops 2(Activision Publishing, Inc.), Assassin’s Creed III (Ubisoft Entertainment.), FIFA 13(Electronic Arts Inc. ), PlayStation® All-Stars Battle Royale, LittleBigPlanet Karting, God of War: Ascension (Sony Computer Entertainment), and more.

SCE will further accelerate the expansion of the PS3 platform which is in the 7th year of its lifecycle, by continually releasing a vast library of exciting and attractive software titles and offering users a choice from a variety of hardware models.

*1 When using dedicated HDD, flash memory cannot be used as inner storage
*2 Users will need to use the separately sold “Vertical Stand” to set the new PS3 in vertical position.
*3 Includes PS one® classics and free of charge content (downloadable demos).

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WRC 3 FIA World Rally Championship

September 19th, 2012, 12:44 Posted By: wraggster

On the 12th October, videogame publisher and distributor PQube will be releasing WRC 3 FIA World Rally Championship for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation Vita to an audience of simulator fans hungry for the chance to recreate the official 2012 WRC season.

Packed with more than 50+ Official Race Teams, 35+ different cars, every track from the championships and a completely re-designed career mode,WRC 3 is the most complete rally game created – ever! Gamers can now have a go at the WRC 3 demo on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.

To help ensure that WRC 3 reaches the largest and most appropriate audience possible, PQube has partnered with one of Europe's leading action sports retailers: FreestyleXtreme.com. Operating in more than a dozen countries around the world, FreestyleXtreme sell clothing and accessories from more than 140 action sports brands that rally and motorsport fans will be well aware of, including Alpinestars, Red Bull and, thanks to the popularity of rally driver Ken Block, Monster Energy and DC Shoes too.

With a combination of direct marketing to FreestyleXtreme's 7,000 monthly customer and promotion to the company's active, 110,000-strong social media networks, potential fans of the game will be offered WRC 3 stickers, competitions and special offers on rally related merchandise.

Those who jump in and pre-order WRC 3 will also receive EXCLUSIVE DLC content, the Classic Mini Cooper S 1964 Rally Car! WRC 3 is available for pre-order now from the following retailers: Amazon, GAME, Play.com and Zavvi.