The PlayStation Network community officially surpassed the 50 million mark last year, but a new milestone was reached this year. At CES 2011, Sony announced that the PSN has over 60 million users now using the service, up from 38 million users from last year.
It’s only been a few days since the PS3 ‘root key’ was discovered and already a Custom Firmware has been created by homebrew developer KaKaRoTo. Naturally, due to legal issues, the developer has refrained from releasing the firmware to the public but has made available all the tools needed to create your own custom firmware (providing you have some coding knowledge).
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Episode 39 of FirstPlay is now available on the PlayStation Store, making it the first issue of 2011. This episode includes look at the upcoming titles for 2011, including a in-depth look at Bulletstorm and a review of Scott Pilgrim Vs The World on Blu-ray.
The European PlayStation Plus update for January is now available on the PlayStation Store, and will be available until February 2nd 2011. Highlights this month include a few copy of PSN title Shatter and brand new Minis title Pipe Madness. You can also find new dynamic themes and avatars for free.
GeoHot is at it again! The PlayStation 3’s “Root Key” was discovered by a group of hackers last week and has been published by famed hacker GeoHot. The root key allows PS3 users to run homebrew applications without the need for dongles and devices like the PS3 Jailbreak.
If you though the PSOne Classic section on the PlayStation Store was a little small, you will be happy to know that three more titles are on the way very soon. The game listings on the ESRB reveal three previously unannounced PSOne classics coming to the PS3 and PSP.
The latest edition of magazine PSM3 has some very interesting mockups of what the PSP2 may look like. These could be real images or they could be PSM3’s representation of what the next iteration of the PSP will look like. Check out the high-res images below to read the interesting parts of the article.
Planning to spend the Christmas weekend with family at home? Check out new titles on the PlayStation Video Store to pass the time. This week you can find: Salt, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Easy A, Devil, and Step Up 3 plus other blockbuster hits under New Releases > New Release Movies.
