Need for Speed: The Run uses real life locations such as streets of San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Detroit, New York and many other locations. Here is the first introduction trailer for the game.
Poor old George ‘Geohot’ Hotz is now on the run in South America. Geohot is known for hacking the PS3 and is being sued by Sony. Now, Geohot seems to have been scared off by his court date and has failed to hand over various devices to Sony for inspection, despite a court telling him to do so.
“Over the last several weeks. Hotz has engaged in a campaign to thwart jurisdictional discovery at every turn – regardless of whether the Court has ordered such discovery or not. Most seriously, after Magistrate Judge Spero ordered an inspection of Hotz’s devices and ordered Hotz to appear at a deposition in California, SCEA learned that Hotz had deliberately removed integral components of his impounded hard drives prior to delivering them to a third party neutral and that Hotz is now in South America, an excuse for why he will not immediately provide the components of his hard drives as requested by the neutral.
“Hotz’s attempts to dodge this Court’s authority raise very serious questions.”
This all comes after Geohot asked the public for donations to help his legal battle, which seems to have been used to help him disappear. Why cant Sony realise that they should be hiring people like George ‘Geohot’ Hotz instead of suing them and forcing them to flee their own country in fear.
Its been reported that the PlayStation Move could be moving to the PC. The PS3 motion controller is expected to become part of a project called Move Server which will see PlayStation Move games being created for the PC which in turn, will allow the Move controller to be used on the PC.
SCEA will be holding a conference this year which will be used to explain what Move Server is all about and from what we understand now, it is being designed to let developers, academics and hobbyists all work with the controller in more unique ways.
It has been reported that Sonys PS3 firmware 3.56 has been hacked after less than 24 hours of release.
With Sony obtaining a restraining order against hacking master George (Geohot) Hotz, it was left to KaKaRoToKS to work the magic, and the community was not disappointed. He has posted the signing keys online, and so it is now only a matter of time when custom firmwares for 3.56 are released.
CVG explains:
Wii hacker Youness Alaoui, also known as KaKaRoToKs, announced on Twitter that he’d successfully unpacked the firmware and published its signing keys, opening the door for new custom firmware to be created that would mimic the latest update and allow hacked PS3s to regain access to PSN.
This will obviously lead to another Playstation 3 firmware update from Sony as soon as possible.
PlayStation blog posted some new information about the release of Gran Turismo 5: DELAYED, again, it will not be available in November 2nd as it was expected.
The official statement from Taku Imasaki says “We can confirm that Gran Turismo 5 will not be available this November 2nd, but the game’s release will be coming this holiday season.” But with the number of delays this game already had, there’s absolutely no certainty it will be available any time soon.
The reasons, as always, say that they are fixing some bugs about the game to make it more stable. But the GT fans are not happy, at all with this new decision; we can sense the feelings just by looking those comments in the blog post:
This is the new “Hitler Downfall” parody about GT5 being delayed again. Take not that the first parody was created when the game was postponed from 2009 to 2010.
Does anyone is keeping count about the delays on this game? I know I don’t.
Tired of iTunes? Not liking the Amazon platform? The one thing we don’t lack is many ways to get the same thing we want. Both platforms along with a few lesser known platforms offer ways to acquire digital content. Music, movies, TV shows, all downloadable from these platforms, but the one “ring” to rule them all thus far has been Apple’s dominating iTunes store.
If you’ve been looking for an opportunity to disconnect from Apple, perhaps Sony has the option for you. It’s been rumored recently that an announcement could come, as early as tomorrow according to a post on 1up.com, on an iTunes competitor from Sony would be released on the PS3 and PSP devices, to be followed by other products in Sony’s lineup. According to the article, a reliable source from the Financial Times, states that the service will be subscription based and offer music and movies. The announcement is rumored to be made at IFA Berlin this week.
PS3 owners are already familiar with ordering and renting films from the Playstation Store, but a dedicated service across multiple platforms including their Bravia TV lines could be the next big thing to compete with Apple. The report states that while the service will be announced, it actually won’t be available until next year.
Can Sony do it? There no doubt iTunes has become the norm for many of us, but I’d like to think there’s a fighting chance for Sony in all this. Leave your comments below on whether you think this service has a chance on Sony’s products.
Sony announced recently that the new threat appeared recently about the possible USB devices which could allow “backup games” to run in PlayStation 3, can be easily detected by the system and they will block devices which are using it.
PSJailBreak is the USB system that we will be able to find and buy with the promise that we can run copied versions of PS3 games. The company who developed PSJailBreak says that “will never break your console” and will support all games.
But Sony simply said that they are not going to allow it. This USB gadget generates an error “8002A227” in the system, which can be detected soon as the PS3 logs in the PlayStation Store. And when this happens, Sony will ban this console (if you remember, Microsoft did same for XBOX consoles which were altered with the same purpose).
For one second you thought it was going to be as simple as connecting a USB drive to your console isn’t?
China’s company eDoo will be announcing later this year the launch of the “eBox”, which will provide gaming and entertainment experience just through the body actions detected by a webcam-style device, and no other controllers will be needed. Thinking Kinect?
This is what it seems a leaked image of the eBox:
China’s government announced recently that they will not allow the commercialization of XBOX Kinect device; but as always, people are always looking for a workaround, and the eBox device is appearing.
There are no official announcements, but apparently more news will appear in November and possibly the launch of this product will be on 2011. XBOX games won’t be supported by the eBOX console, but there are currently working 16 professional teams, some of them have developed games for Xbox 360 and Wii, from 8 countries will take part in the development of eBox’s games.
When I see this pic, I cannot avoid thinking about the other Chinese invention this year: The iPed.
George Hotz, the famous geek boy who hacked for the first time an iPhone, said recently on Twitter that he won’t be trying any more bypass the security and controls from Sony’s console PlayStation 3.
Actually he completed an important milestone a while ago; by accessing the PlayStation 3 kernel; where he found several secrets of this console, but the result of getting it hacked was not completed. Sony did not object any of his tasks, even more they encourage him to take over control of this console; but failure was at the end of his trip.
George said: “It was a cool ride, and I’ve learned a lot about a lot. Perhaps one of these days I’ll do a more formal goodbye.” Which makes us wonder about if this “retirement” it is not actually a defeated soldier who just gave up trying?
Hotz credibility was also questioned a while ago when he distributed a fake photo when he said he just hacked the iPhone 4.
Besides all that, we have to admit: Even though I’m no expert on hacking devices, the work on PlayStation 3 by Sony has been incredible.
The ultimate game convention is taking place right now in Los Angeles Convention Center and they are ready to introduce us with some significant announcements and gaming news. Here’s a recap.
New Games: PlayStation 3
Metal Gear Solid: Rising
New Games: Nintendo Wii
XBOX
New Games: PSP
Ready to make your pick?
