Peripheral manufacturer Datel has been hard at work attempting to crack the PSP 3000 since its release. They’ve developed the Lite Blue Tool battery to force the PSP into service mode so hackers can run any arbitrary code they want. According to MaxConsole, Datel performed a silicon level investigation of the PSP’s chips to determine how to break into service mode. This means they decapsulated the the chips and reverse engineered any cryptographic protections. We’d love to hear exactly what chips were being used since some are fundamentally flawed.

Silicon hacking has always been a favorite topic of ours and we suggest you check out [Chris Tarnovsky]’s decapsulation technique to learn more about it.

SCEE kommer att storsatsa på spelutveckling i Indien, och landet kommer att bli spelavdelningens nya centrum. Det säger Sonys Atindriya Bose till Maxconsole under en intervju, och den största anledningen till satsningen är ekonomin då kostnaderna kommer att bli lägre.

Vi får se hur pass mycket detta kommer att påverkar spelen, men vi kan nog vänta oss flertalet interaktiva resor i Indien.

With the number of Virtual Console games available increasing every week, Wii users are clamoring for some sort of hard-drive peripheral, instead of having to delete and re-downloading games. With the arrival of the WiiWare platform coming up, Nintendo’s PR manager Eric Walter revealed that there are no plans of releasing a hard-drive for the Wii. He also went on to say that “people don’t mind friend codes and like them because it keeps their games ‘undisturbed’. The issue was brought up with regards to the announcement that the popular franchise “Monster Hunter 3″ was coming to the Wii, and the whispers that soon followed, that it would not use friend codes. The full story, including the entire quote can be found at Maxconsole