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Ps3 USB Mod: PS Jailbreak

20. August 2010

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Ps3 USB Mod: PS Jailbreak

Yesterday, OzModChips received a tiny little package which contained a little tiny USB dongle going by the name of PS Jailbreak. What does it do? This device allows you to dump all of your original PS3 games onto a FAT32 harddrive, as well as opening up your PS3 console to a new generation of homebrew [...]

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Free Game of the month: Broken Sword 2.5

29. June 2010

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Free Game of the month: Broken Sword 2.5

This months free Game (FGOTM) highlights the rather excellent Broken Sword 2.5.  A German made fan created tribute to the Broken Sword Series of adventure games.  The Devs are known as mindFactory, a group of talented Broken Sword fans which peaked at 15 active members toward the later stages of the games development.  The quality [...]

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The New Xbox 360 Slim, Australia’s best preorder price

17. June 2010

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The New Xbox 360 Slim, Australia’s best preorder price

The future is here with the new Xbox 360 Slim. It’s a leaner machine in an all new black gloss finish now with a 250 gigabyte hard disk as standard.  The biggest feature for me is the fact that it is RROD Free – That’s Right! no more Red Rings when you are in the [...]

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Build the ultimate custom pc with Origin Australia

21. April 2010

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Build the ultimate custom pc with Origin Australia

The extreme custom built PC specialists known as Origin PC have been available for Australian buyers for a few months now, offering simply the definitive and ultimate custom pc’s you could ever envisage.   Backed by the praise of one of the worlds most successful and professional gamers in FATAL1TY, Origin PC offers you the [...]

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Byteside FPS perspective

19. February 2010

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Byteside FPS perspective

Australia’s premiere Technology and Gaming show, Byteside have a healthy discussion in regards to the FPS genre and its impact on gaming culture and the perception of FPS gamers as a whole.  The console shift in regards to this genre from my perspective, has had the negative impact of actually dumbing down FPS games in [...]

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The Apple ipad Sourced

28. January 2010

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The Apple ipad Sourced

To be honest I am not sure what to make of the Apple Ipad.  In Steve Jobs speech at today’s Latest creation event, he declared the Ipad “WAY better than a laptop” and regarded the device to be a better experience than a Netbook. At a basic level, the Ipad is an upsized Ipod, running [...]

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The Great Australian Internet Blackout

25. January 2010

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The Great Australian Internet Blackout

The Great Australian Internet Blackout is a combined online and offline demonstration against imposed online censorship otherwise known as CleanFeed.  This Filter will impose blanket filtering for all web connections at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level and has officially been given the go ahead after completely ridiculous trials with minor ISP’s. What does cleanfeed [...]

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PS3 has been hacked

24. January 2010

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PS3 has been hacked

I have been following this blog for a while and it appears the PS3 has finally succumbed to the modding community, specifically a user named G Hotz best known for some iphone hackmagic. I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked [...]

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Michael Atkinson regards all gamers as criminals.

21. January 2010

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Michael Atkinson regards all gamers as criminals.

I am not sure whether I should be dumbfounded by such a comment or expect the obvious detachment from reality that Michael Atkinson enjoys from time to time.  He is after all, the world renowned Political Big Brother to the Australian people.  His moments of Grandeur usually consist of forcing his own brand of undemocratic [...]

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Heavy Rain Preview

17. January 2010

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Heavy Rain Preview

The PC game Omikron: The Nomad Soul is one of my all time favorite games, not only did it feature David Bowie and a whole soundtrack of unique Bowie songs, it still ranks as one of the best multi genre games available.  Blending Adventure, fighting, RPG, FPS elements, the game had a unique body swapping [...]

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