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Ever since the news of PS3  jailbreak since August, 2010, nearly every PS3, the PS3 jailbreak has become instantly popular.

Following are some easy steps about how to jailbreak your ps3.

First of all you need a device that can run the jailbreak code on your ps3. It can be one of the many supported USB devices like an iPhone, Android Phones, or the most convenient of all, a dedicated PS3 modchip or jailbreak dongle.

You can buy a PS3 modchip to jailbreak your ps3 for as low as $25-$35. Google around for modchips like ps3key, ps3break etc. They all work and all are in the $30 range.

After you’ve purchased a modchip, just follow the following easy steps to setup your PS3 for the first time.

1. Download BackupManager (This application needs to be installed on your PS3 from a usb flash drive). So just copy this file to a USB flash drive. Make sure the backupManager is in the root of the USB flash drive. (Do  not use it yet)
2. Make sure the power cable to your ps3 is disconnected, and plug in the PS3 modchip via the USB port (make sure no other usb device is connected to the ps3 yet)
3. Press the power button on the front of the ps3, immediately followed by pressing the eject button. You should hear multiple beeps, that’d mean the modchip has worked successfully.
4. Now let the ps3 boot, after you see the XMB menu, insert the USB flash drive on the 2nd USB port of the ps3. Go to the games submenu and you will see a new Icon saying “Install Package”, select it and you will see the backupManager.pkg file.
5. Install the backupManager, after the installation is over, now you can see the new BackupManager application icon on your ps3 xmb menu. This backup Manager will now be used to copy and play downloaded ps3 games on your ps3 now. The ps3 is now jailbreak

Now, you might ask how to copy PS3 games to my ps3 now?

Well you’ve two options,

• Either download PS3 games from the internet, from torrent websites as well as sites like rapidshare. I can’t link those here as it’ll be illegal.
• Or Rent games from gameshops and make copies of those games via the BackupManager. You can return the orignal game discs after copying them and play the copied files from ps3 hard disk.

Here are some steps about how to copy ps3 game into the ps3 hard disk:

1. Plug-in the ps3 jailbreak modchip into one of the usb ports of PS3 (make sure the power cable of ps3 is disconnected).
2. Connect the PS3 power cable, and now press the power key on the front of the PS3, immediately followed by the Eject key. (you should hear multiple beeps which mean the ps3 has been successfuly jailbroken)
3. Now once the ps3 is booted, on the menu go to Games and select and launch the Backup Manager application that we installed in start of the tutorial.
4. Now insert the game disc into the ps3 that you want to copy into the ps3 hdd.
5. Press the [copy] button as show on the backup manager bottom. (the ps3 will copy the entire game from the blu-ray disc to the ps3 (it can take upto 30-60 minutes depending on game size). You can copy as many games as you want this way.
6. After the game(s) has been copied, Now you can play all these games from the ps3 hard disc, just by   inserting any (random) PS3 game disc (it has to be original game). For example, i use my Tekken 6 original disc inside my ps3, with that disc i boot all the copied games from my ps3.

I will later on add steps how to copy games from PC to PS3 so you can play downloaded ps3 games that you got from internet.

Hope this helps. Enjoy your ps3 hacks and homebrew now.

That’s right, Rockstar released the official details and screenshots of the PC version of their highly anticipated GTA IV game. There are alot of new features being added to the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV and it will be superior in many ways compared to its Xbox360 and PS3 versions.

Rockstar’s Steve Hahnel showed off the some teaser info like more details and screens at Leipzig Games Convention today. So here’s whats new GTA IV’s PC version:

1. Much improved visuals (more polished compared to the Xbox360, PS3 versions)
2. Increased number of multiplayer count, so you can easily play gang-war sort of multiplayer games in GTA IV (hopefully).
3. If you’ve got the rig, Rockstar’s got the games to use it to full potential. GTA IV’s PC port will be support a max resolution of 2560×600. That alot of detail.
4. You can control camera view in replays, and can upload your replays to Rockstar’s social club for others to watch.
5. Multiplayer games can be defined more explicitely now. E.g. you can limit your death matches to a certain weapon only (no sniper cheatin, eh?)
6. Xbox360′s controller is being supported. I like using the analog stick for controlling vehicles, much smoother that way.

Following are the relesed screenshots by Rockstar today GTA 4 will be released for PC on November 18th, by the way. Hit the Read More link for more screenshots.

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Here’s a fresh trailer showing  Miss Lara Croft in action in her upcoming game, Tombraider: Underworld.  There are still around 2+ months left to Underworld’s release, but things are heating up now. Last week we saw the released photo session of Lara’s Model Alison Carroll, now this video. The gameplay looks solid in the vid but I wont be makin’ any assumptions as it’d be too early, we’ll see that when the game is released. Here’s the released trailer.

[via Kotaku]

Well no doubt Crysis is a real power-hungry game and I can understand about people being worried if their rigs would be able to handle the almighty follow up in the series, that is Crysis: Warhead. Fear not though, EA has just released the official system specifications and they are not THAT much extra-ordinarily demanding, just compare your rig, I know most of you will happily find yourself (and your beloved rig) in the safe-zone. Here are the official specs:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista), Intel Core 2.0 GHz
(2.2 GHz for Vista), AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or better
RAM: 1GB (1.5GB on Windows Vista)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
(Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or better
VRAM: 256MB of Graphics Memory Storage: 15GB
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible ODD: DVD-ROM
OS: Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft Vista
DirectX: DX9.0c or DX10

The official site is ready for pre-orders. Crysis: Warhead will be released on Sept, 12th in Europe, followed by a Sept, 16th release in North America. For some new screenshots of the game  Read the rest of this entry »

Motherload is probably the most addictive and time-wasting flash game i’ve played so far.

You control a drilling tank on Mars, the goal is simple; keep drilling going deeper and deeper, filling your storage bay with precious minerals. Once your storage tank is full, get back to surface, sell your minerals, earn cash,  refuel, then get back to drilling.

The game is addictive in the sense that in the beginning you are pretty much limited on all accessories. Your fuel-tank holds very little fuel so you have to get back to surface at short intervals, as you earn more you get to buy new upgrades and your drilling machine gets more faster and convenient, although the game’s difficulty also increases as you go more deeper.

You get rewards for finding treasures and artifacts. All in all Motherload is an awesome way to spend a boring afternoon on. I’d recommend to try this 2D game atleast once. Do comment about how addictive you think this game is.

[Play Motherload]

With less than 3 months left to the release of Tombraider: Underworld, Eidos Interactive has brought a new Lara Croft Model into the spotlight, this time a 23 year old professional display-gymnast, Alison Caroll. She had to make her way up by beating out hundreds of other applicants, each of which was wishing to be the next Lara Croft Model.

The first few release pics look promising albeit a bit amateurishly done. See the mole on her left knee? Click on the thumbnails for close ups. The 3rd and 5th pics look specifically gross.

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I’ve been reading alot of posts by new users complaining about not being able to get the playstation2 emulator, PCSX2, to work properly. Since I’ve been testing my PS2 games on this emulator since its very early stages, I thought it was about time i wrote a configuration guide for all you guys who might be interested in playing PS2 games on your PCs. First of all, if you want to know about why you should test/play your PS2 games on PC, here are a few good reasons:

• PCSX2 lets you play games in very high resolution because of the advanced graphics plugins that it uses, compared to the low resolution of the PS2 console.
• You can save your PS2 games at ANYTIME you want without needing any ingame checkpoint, by using save-states. Thats a very big advantage for games that won’t let you save your game unless you reach a checkpoint or the end of a level.
• You can take high-resolution screenshots of games while playing on your PC and you can even record videos of your gameplay if you want to show off to your friends. There are alot more reasons but by now I guess you will be interested in giving PCSX2 a try anyway, so back to the topic.

The guide:

First of all, you’ll be needing to download PCSX2 (quite obvious ). After installing it, you’ll be needing a PS2 bios file (which is normally named like SCPH-XXXX.bin), this file basically contains all the information about how a PS2 plays a game. PCSX2 needs this file to play games on your PC. You will have to search for this file on Google as I can’t host it since its Sony’s property. After you’ve got the BIOS file (SCPH-XXXX.bin), put it in /bios directory of PCSX2′s folder.

Now its time to launch PCSX2 and configure it. So run the emulator.

Tekken4, a PS2 game, running on PCSX2 in Windows Vista

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