JANUARY
5th of January 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
Hacking sites report on eBay listings of a PS3 ISO Loader called “Black Dragon 2.0”
7th of January 2008
During 2008’s CES show, Sony promise In Game XMB for the PS3, Metal Gear Solid 4 is also shown.
10th of January 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
PS3 MegaBOX Homebrew Project is released, this is a customised version of a Linux distro and installs via OtherOS.
Source – 247
10th of January 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Sky Diving
10th of January 2008
SCEI announce the discontinuation of the 20GB and 60GB PS3s in Japan.
Source – 248
17th of January 2008
Physics professor Guarav Khanna from University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth reveals PS3 Gravity Grid, a super computer created from a cluster of eight PS3s.
Source – 249
Professors Website – 250
19th of January 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
Team Ice(alec, SKFU, iqd) find a way of running their own code on the PS3, via an exploit found on Resistance: Fall of Man.
Source – 251
22nd of January 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Burnout Paradise
31st of January 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Devil May Cry 4
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
FEBRUARY
2nd of February 2008
According to T3 magazine, a “well informed insider” informed them that a new slimmer PS3 is to be revealed in Autumn.
Source – 252
3rd of February 2008
CEO of EA John Riccitiello, says developing games for the PS3 is still problematic.
Source – 253
3rd of February 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
Team ICE and SorroW release Overflow TiFF Exploit.
Source – 254
5th of February 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Turok
5th of February 2008
SCEJ announce a Satin Silver for Japan, the 40GB console will be released on the 6th of March 2008.
Source – 255
5th of February 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
Team Ice release ELF 2 SELF Converter.
Source – 256
5th of February 2008
SCEI announce that over 1 million people have signed up for folding@home.
Source – 257
8th of February 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Conflict: Denied Ops
The Club
14th of February 2008
StreamMyGame launches its Linux client, allowing PS3 users to stream their PC games to the console.
Source – 258
15th of February 2008
e2games in Australia release footage of a thief stealing a broken PS3 controller from one of their demo kiosks.
Source – 259
17th of February 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
Team ICE release ICE Package v1.2
Source – 260
18th of February 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
FIFA Street 3
19th of February 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific
20th of February 2008
Logitech reveal official GT 5 wheel for PS3.
Source – 261
21st of February 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
22nd of February 2008
gamesindustry.biz reveal that during the Game Developers Conference week(18th – 22nd February 2008) Phil Harrison admits that he is frustrated with Sony Japan not taking on his ideas, here is part of what he said.
“It’s a very interesting and frustrating thing for me to experience because I have been banging the drum about social gaming for a long time, with SingStar, EyeToy and Buzz, and our Japanese colleagues said that there is no such thing as social gaming in Japan – people do not play games on the same sofa together in each other’s homes. It will never happen. And then out comes the Wii.”
Source – 262
23rd of February 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
Team Ice release a video, showing the PS3 game Pain, running modified files.
25th of February 2008
SCEI announce that Phil Harrison will resign from Sony on the 29th of February 2008, he will be replaced by Kazuo Hirai who is already CEO of SCEI.
Source – 263
26th of February 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Lost: Via Domus
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
27th of February 2008
[Court – Legal Proceedings – Crime]
$2.45 million is what the Wilmington Police and the family of the Student killed by police agree to in a settlement, the student Peyton Strickland was suspected of robbing another student of his PS3’s on release day in USA.
Source – 264
28th of February 2008
Konami release a press statement revealing details about MGS4, the game will be released in North America on the 12th of June 2008, people who pre-order will receive a DVD called Metal Gear Saga 2.0, which is a prologue capturing the MGS franchise.
Source – 265
MARCH
4th of March 2008
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory submits a purchase request for three hundred 40GB PS3s.
Source – 266
4th of March 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Army of Two
Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore
Major League Baseball 2K8
MLB 08: The Show
5th of March 2008
Nyko release their PS3 controller with rubble, called the “Nyko Zero”.
Source – 267
6th of March 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Ry? ga Gotoku Kenzan!
6th of March 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Rocketmen: Axis of Evil
6th of March 2008
[PS3 Model Release]
SCE release a Satin Silver 40GB PS3
10th of March 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
A group called Team Slump/Group Slump promised backups, with an exploit/hack they dubbed “i.load”, here is what they promised:
“*i.load does not work on PAL PS3 (40GB) and NTSC (20GB) yet, but we work hard to get it
*20GB NTSC, 60GB NTSC/PAL, 80GB NTSC running well (haven’t fix all the bugs from the list below)
*source code will be avaiable 1 month after release for other developer
*first trial versions arrived trusted people (rs.com – filesize of the beta: 917 MB all in one)
*no worldwide release before every version works (including 20GB/40GB NTSC/PAL)
*release date is still set on March 23.th 2008 (if all versions work!)
*PlayStation 2 images working fluently; Saving possible!
*no success with images over 17.5GB
*Online play possible (no ban yet!)
*new trailer on the way
*you need Firmware 2.10 (not higher or below)”
12th of March 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2009
13th of March 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Winning Post 7 Maximum 2008
13th of March 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
CF3B5 releases PS3 Proxy GUI, it allows you to install PS Store games and demos via PC.
13th of March 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.17]
Fixes the stability of PS3 titles
17th of March 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Sega Superstars Tennis
18th of March 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
18th of March 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
NZHawk releases PS3 SAK ISO Backup Merger
18th of March 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
Cyberfix releases PS3 SAK Export And File Merger Plus, which was inspired by NZHawk’s PS3 SAK ISO Backup Merger.
Source – 268
19th of March 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Armored Core: For Answer
19th of March 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Echochrome
21st of March 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Dark Sector
Viking: Battle for Asgard
21st of March 2008
[PS3 Model Release]
SCEJ reveal a Limited Edition Steel Hagane(Gun Metal) 40GB PS3.
Source – 269
23rd of March 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
Spiker from PS3HaX released a video apparently showing a PS3 exploit running on Official Firmware 2.17, he claims that the PS3’s files system is accessed.
23rd of March 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
Team Slump release their i.load ISO Loader, it comes in a passworded RAR and no password is given.
25th of March 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.20]
Blu-ray disc profile 2.0 is now supported, you can now play DivX and WMV files bigger than 2GB, resume play is added to DVD playback, you can now play BD-R v1.2 discs
26th of March 2008
News emerges that the PlayStation Network might have been hacked, Sony release this statement.
“We have found out that there has been a possibility of unauthorized access to personal information on the PLAYSTATION®Store through PCs, a content download service of the PLAYSTATION®Network. Although unlikely, it is possible that the passwords of a small percentage of PLAYSTATION Network users may have been changed through unauthorized access, making it possible to view users’ personal information and/or use the Wallet for the PLAYSTATION Store. PLAYSTATION Network accounts do not display entire credit card numbers.
We have taken immediate measures to rectify this issue and system security is restored.
We have investigated the extent of unauthorized access and possible alteration of passwords that could have occurred before corrective measures were taken, and are directly contacting customers who may have been affected by this incident. In order to verify that your account is intact, we strongly suggest that PLAYSTATION Network users sign in to the service. If you can successfully sign in with your pre-set password, your account is not affected by this incident.”
Source – 270
27th of March 2008
Sony release an updated statement about the security breach.
“to date we can tell you that on a global basis we don’t know of a single person who has been affected by this. We take our responsibilities and the protection of consumers’ personal information extremely seriously. That is why we are attempting to be transparent in terms of notifying people that we discovered a loophole, which we have now closed. We identified a small number of people who were exposed to the risk of being affected and those we have contacted”
27th of March 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
HackBrew website owner kid101skater announces he and RichDevX have discovered a common connection between the PSP and PS3, the discovery/project is called “Project E Premo”.
Source – 271
28th of March 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
PS3HaX state that they have been contacted by one of the developers working on Project E Premo, RichDevX, who states that whilst the project is legit, it was blown out of proportion to drive traffic to the website.
Source – 272
30th of March 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
An angry kid101skater creates a thread on his website and responds to the accusations
FreePlay then responds to his claims
Source – 273
31st of March 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
PSP developer dragula96 reveals what he claims is a Hello World on the PS3.
Source – 274
APRIL
8th of April 2008
Toshiba start shipping SpursEngine SE1000 a high-performance stream processor, using the PS3’s Cell Broadband Engine
10th of April 2008
[PS3 Model Release]
SCEA reveal a Limited Edition Gun Metal 80 GB PS3.
Source – 275
10th of April 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
Saw the first real PS3 hardware modification, a PS3 laptop created by Ben Heck.
Source
15th of April 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
After about three videos and loads of people realising his exploit was fake, Spiker announced that he was “leaving the scene” and that he gave his “work” to other hackers.
15th of April 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.30]
PlayStation Store is redesigned, Blu-ray disc now supports DTS-HD master audio and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio
18th of April 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
UEFA Euro 2008
22nd of April 2008
SCE announce that Home is delayed again.
24th of April 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Valkyria Chronicles
25th of April 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
NBA Ballers: Chosen One
29th of April 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Grand Theft Auto IV
MAY
1st of May 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Professional Baseball Spirits 5
2nd of May 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Iron Man
14th of May 2008
Sony announce that they have sold 9.24 million PS3’s between 1st of April 2007 and 31st of March 2008.
14th of May 2008
Jack Schofield from The Guardian guestimates that Sony have lost about $260 per PS3 to date.
Source – 277
15th of May 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
15th of May 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.35]
System stability of PS3 games
16th of May 2008
Shuhei Yoshida becomes the president of SCE WWS.
Source – 278
17th of May 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
XVISTAMAN2005 discovers a way to install Debug(DEX) Firmware on Retail(CEX) PS3’s, the method makes you swap hard-drives and if you don’t know what you are doing, is extremely dangerous as it can cause permanent bricks.
Source – 279
19th of May 2008
YouTube announce that they have released a YouTube Api, so that Developers can implement recording and uploading of game footage to YouTube, allowing players to record and upload in-game video captures direct to YouTube here is a quote made by a YouTube representative:
“We’re excited at the opportunity this presents and look forward to more and more games to be enhanced with YouTube.
The YouTube APIs are available to all developers and we hope that game developers everywhere will use the YouTube APIs to make video an integral part of their game experience.
Whether it’s showing off that fantastic touchdown pass, car slide, or karaoke sing-along, we hope that more user-generated content from games will make their way to YouTube and connect with the gamer communities.”
19th of May 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
PS3 Tool Chain is released.
20th of May 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Haze
20th of May 2008
Greenpeace release a report stating that the PS3 is full of hazardous chemicals, in the report called Playing Dirty, they found the PS3 contained high levels of bromine and PVC.
26th of May 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – PC Sofware]
Gpup – PS3 PUP unpacker/packer is released
27th of May 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
29th of May 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Battle Fantasia
29th of May 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Fatal Inertia EX
30th of May 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Race Driver: GRID
JUNE
3rd of June 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Kung Fu Panda
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
The Bourne Conspiracy
4th of June 2008
Sony announce an “introduction of dynamic in-game advertising on PlayStation 3”, this means advertisers can approach Sony and have their product seen in a PS3 game.
4th of June 2008
SCEE announce that they have cancelled two Sony London Studio games, The Getaway and Eight Days.
Source – 280
5th of June 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
The Incredible Hulk
5th of June 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Novastrike
Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3
9th of June 2008
IBM releases info on their Roadrunner Super Computer which is powered by almost 13,000 PS3 Processors.
Source – 281
10th of June 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
NASCAR 09
12th of June 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
13th of June 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Civilization Revolution
13th of June 2008
GamesIndustry.biz report that Sony are working on a new type of control pad for the PS3, one that breaks apart.
Source – 282
18th of June 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.36]
Fixes stability of PS3 games
20th of June 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Overlord: Raising Hell
SingStar Vol. 2
Top Spin 3
21st of June 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Hellboy: The Science of Evil
WALL-E
21st of June 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Naughty Bear
21st of June 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Beijing 2008
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
23rd of June 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Battlefield: Bad Company
24th of June 2008
Sony patent a device that looks similar to Nintendo’s Wii Remote.
Source – 283
26th of June 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Shiki-Tei
JULY
1st of July 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Hail to the Chimp
2nd of July 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.40]
You can now see the clock on the PS3 Home menu, you can turn the PS3 off via the PS3 Home menu, the PS3 system can now switch off after downloading, you can play upscaled video content from HDD, the number of friends that can be added is increased from 50 to 100
2nd of July 2008
PS3 owners on the official PlayStation forum start complaining about firmware v2.40 bricking their consoles.
Source – 284
2nd of July 2008
Official Firmware v2.40 gets withdrawn and can no longer be downloaded.
Source – 285
2nd of July 2008
Security website Sophos reports that the US PlayStation website has been hit with an SQL attack.
Source – 286
2nd of July 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
PachiPara DL Hyper Sea Story In Karibu
3rd of July 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Initial D Extreme Stage
4th of July 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Buzz!: Quiz TV
5th of July 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
A method to run PS2 Emulators is released, unlike a previous method that required Swap Magic and PSXLoader that was released in September 2007, this method only needed Swap Magic.
7th of July 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
WSC Real 08: World Snooker Championship
8th of July 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.41]
This fixes issues created in [Official Firmware Release – v2.40]
10th of July 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Elefunk
11th of July 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli
13th of July 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Siren: Blood Curse
15th July 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
xorloser releases a PS3 loader for IDA, that lets you view elf/self/prx/sprx files.
Source – 287
15th of July 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
NCAA Football 09
15th of July 2008
During E3 2008, Sony reveal an 80 GB Core Pack that will retail at $399 and will come with the DualShock 3, here are a couple of quotes from Jack Tretton:
“If PlayStation in 2007 was all about hardware, PlayStation in 2008 is all about software.”
“The PLAYSTATION 3 is the most complete and future-proof Blu-ray player available.”
Source – 288
17th of July 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Metal Gear Online
Tears to Tiara: Earth’s Wreath
July the 18th 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
HDCookBook releases Blaster Bunny which is Blu-ray Java(BD-J) homebrew, this utilised Blu-ray Java from BD Discs, to enable us to use Java homebrew on the XMB.
Source – 289
20th Of July 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
FreePlay releases a minimalistic Blu–Ray Java Dev Kit.
Source – 290
24th of July 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
1942: Joint Strike
27th of July 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Homebrew Game]
dragula96 releases BD-J game Snake
Source – 291
28th of July 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Emulator]
Dark-Show releases NES Emulator for BD-J called PS3-NES
Source – 292
29th of July 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Soulcalibur IV
30th of July 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.42]
Fixes stability of PS3 games
31st of July 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
Scorpion54 releases PS3 File Sorter
31st of July 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
PixelJunk Eden
The Last Guy
AUGUST
2nd of August 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
NAND Flow Rebuilder v3.21 is released by NDT
Source – 293
4th of August 2008
In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, SCEAs Scott Steinberg stated that Sony didn’t want any of Nintendos senior citizen gamers.
“But I think the notion of that controller is a non-trivial point that you’ve brought up, that control and that familiarity is like comfort food – from my perspective, we lead, we don’t follow. And as a brand, Nintendo’s got their thing, and we’re not trying to get the senior citizen group to get into gaming, we’re looking to convert the PS2 owners and the tens of millions of installed base that were playing DVDs and playing games on their PS2, to now play Blu-ray movies and Blu-ray games with their PS3.”
Source – 294
5th of August 2008
In an interview with ThreeSpeech, Naughty Dog’s Richard Lemarchand states that the PS3 is using only 30 – 40% of its full power.
“That’s why we think we’re probably only using 30 or 40 per cent of the power of the PS3 right now, and there’s this great, untapped potential.”
Source – 295
5th of August 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Monster Madness: Grave Danger
8th of August 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Hardware Modification]
Pirate from PS3HaX released his version of a PS3 laptop:
Source – 296
12th of August 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Madden NFL 09
13th of August 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Bionic Commando Rearmed
15th of August 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
SKFU discovers a way to run backups on the PS3, however it only works with older games such as Warhawk, MotorStorm, Resistance: Fall of Man, Gran Turismo 5 and Call of Duty 3, developers Mathiuelh and FreePlay confirm its validity, SKFU said this:
“all in all its a hack for rich ppl as you need to have 2 big HDD’s to store all games on it, which you want to play. actually 2 would games require about 50-100GB on both HDD’s. if you have much space on pc hdds that no prob you can just backup and rewrite the data on HDD’s.
the clicking sounds that liek keyboard typing in the background is just the cam auto focus. ”
Source – 297
16th of August 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
NDT releases PS3 NAND Flow Rebuilder v3.36.
Source – 298
16th of August 2008
[Court – Legal Proceedings – Crime]
A man holds staff at an EB Games shops at gun point, demanding a PS3 in order to save his family who are being held for ransom.
Source – 299
19th of August 2008
David Perry from Acclaim said that Sony have no chance of making a profit with the PS3.
Source – 300
20th of August 2008
At Leipzig Games Convention Sony announce a 160GB SKU, which would be bundled with Uncharted: Drakes Fortune and a DualShock 3 controller, along with a voucher to download the PSN game Pain.
20th of August 2008
[Court – Legal Proceedings – Crime]
Orinda Intellectual Properties USA file a lawsuit against Sony, SCE and SCEA claiming copyright infringement on patents related to Blu-ray, they demand that Sony stop manufacturing the PS3 and other Sony related Blu-ray devices.
Source – 301
21st of August 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Vampire Rain: Altered Species
26th of August 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
28th of August 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Afrika
28th of August 2008
Joseph Olin President of Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, states that he thinks that Blu-ray is only a short term advantage for the PS3.
” I look at Blu-ray being the obvious short-term differentiator, but if everything goes to digital download and over time, it will then the Blu-ray device no longer has the same competitive advantage, or the benefit is not as strong as the feature is.”
Source – 302
28th of August 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party
31st of August 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
SEPTEMBER
2nd of September 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Rapala Fishing Frenzy 2009
3rd of September 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
FaceBreaker
NFL Head Coach 09
8th of September 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
NHL 2K9
11th of September 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Jeopardy!
12th of September 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
16th of September 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Pure
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
17th of September 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.43]
Supports the release of rental content on the PlayStation Store in Japan
16th of September 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
xorloser releases PS3 NID Attack Tool.
Source – 303
18th of September 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Eternal Sonata
G1 Jockey 4 2008
18th of September 2008
Sony launches Life With PlayStation, which combines folding@home with various other applications.
22nd of September 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Baja: Edge of Control
22nd Of September 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
SKFU manages to partially dump the Ram from a retail PS3.
22nd of September 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
NDT manages to reverse the ECC algorithm of the PS3 Flash.
Source – 304
23rd of September 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway
Lego Batman: The Videogame
25th of September 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
SBK-08: Superbike World Championship
Aquanaut’s Holiday: Hidden Memories
Cross Edge
25th of September 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Mega Man 9
Angel Love Online
Geon
29th of September 2008
Hiroshige Goto reports on the Japanese website PC Watch, that the PS4 will contain an advanced version of the PS3s CELL processor.
Source – 305 (Don’t forget to read PS4History)
29th of September 2008
[Court – Legal Proceedings – Crime]
English newspaper The Sun reports on a weird news story, regarding the theft of £600,000 worth of PS3 games. The games were stolen from a parked lorry whilst the driver was sleeping and transferred to a different lorry, the police manage to get the games back, where they are locked up in police secure holding, where they are yet again stolen, the police find the lorry again but without the games.
Source – 306
30th of September 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Silent Hill Homecoming
OCTOBER
2nd of October 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
SKFU releases information on a new project he is working on called Project Mersenne.
““Project Mersenne” is a attempt to “Crack” the PSN cards , and Beta keys at all. At first sight this might sound like a fraud attempt. However, it is not and in most country’s it is legal. But more important, financial gain is NOT our goal. Deeper understanding of PSN ampersand a intellectual challenge will be our reward. Who knows what we will find out?“
3rd of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
FIFA 09
6th of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
NBA 2K10
7th of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Fracture
NBA ’09: The Inside
NBA 2K9
NBA Live 09
9th of October 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Linger in Shadows
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords – Revenge of the Plague Lord
13th of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Blitz: The League II
14th of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Dead Space
Disney Sing It
Golden Axe: Beast Rider
Rock Revolution
Saints Row 2
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation
15th of October 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.50]
BD/DVD is renamed to Video Settings, sync with server is now an option under Trophy Collection
16th of October 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
A PS3 user discovers the PS3 recovery menu after updating to 2.50 firmware.
Source – 307
17th of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
BioShock
PES 2009: Pro Evolution Soccer
17th of October 2008
Sony announce that Little Big Planet has been delayed in America, so they can remove some music tracks which have quotes from the Quran.
19th of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Rock Band 2
21st of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Far Cry 2
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Monopoly
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
22nd of October 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
SKFU unpacks and decrypts PS Home Beta v0.86.
Source – 308
23rd of October 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
H3R3T1C releases Home Renamer v0.1
23rd of October 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Prince of Persia Classic
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode One
24th of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
MotoGP ’08
25th of October 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
FreePlay releases UnBar, which extracts .BAR files from PS Home Beta.
26th of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Guitar Hero World Tour
27th of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
LittleBigPlanet
27th of October 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
Scorpion54 releases PS3FilePlacer V2.0, it replaces PS3 File Sorter
28th of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Fallout 3
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
SCORE International Baja 1000
30th of October 2008
[PS3 Model Release]
Little Big Planet and Gran Turismo 5 Special edition 80GB PS3’s are released
31st of October 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Quantum of Solace
Legendary
NOVEMBER
3rd of November 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
CJCP release detailed information on the PS3 Service Mode
4th of November 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
History Civil War: Secret Missions
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
Resistance 2
Tom Clancy’s EndWar
4th of November 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
NDT releases PS3 Flow Rebuilder 3.50
5th of November 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.52]
Stability of PS3 games improved
7th of November 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009
11th of November 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Call of Duty: World at War
Mirror’s Edge
13th of November 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Derby Time Online
Way of the Samurai 3
13th of November 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Age of Booty
14th of November 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Shaun White Snowboarding
SingStar ABBA
SingStar Vol. 3: Party Edition
16th of November 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
17th of November 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
NCAA Basketball 09
18th of November 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack
Alone in the Dark: Inferno
Bolt
Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore 2
Need for Speed: Undercover
NPPL Championship Paintball 2009
Rock Band Track Pack Volume 2
Sonic Unleashed
Tomb Raider: Underworld
19th of November 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
NZHawk releases iSO Backup Merger V1.1
20th of November 2008
VideoGamer.com reveal that trophies in games will be a mandatory requirement from January 2009.
Source – 309
25th of November 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Brain Challenge
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
26th of November 2008
THQ announce that they have cancelled the PS3 version of Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon, due to development issues.
Source – 310
28th of November 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Disney Sing It! – High School Musical 3: Senior Year
28th of November 2008
The PS3 wireless keypad is released for £24.99.
DECEMBER
2nd of December 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Prince of Persia
2nd of December 2008
[Official Firmware Release – v2.53]
Full screen mode in Adobe Flash Player on the web browser
4th of December 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
GTI Club+: Rally Côte d’Azur
Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer
5th of December 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Brain Challenge
9th of December 2008
Sony file a patent, with the title “Processor emulation using fragment level translation”, this patent had a diagram showing the PS2’s Emotion Engine and Graphic Synthesizer.
“Embodiments of the present invention may be used in emulation of any target system having a secondary processor that cannot modify its own instruction memory. Target systems include, but are not limited to general purpose computer systems and other programmable devices, such as video game console devices. By way of example FIG. 3A depicts a block diagram of an example of a target system 100 in the form of a game console device, a Sony Playstation®2. PlayStation is a registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. of Tokyo, Japan. In this example, the target system 100 is built around a main processor module 102 referred to as an emotion engine, a Graphic Synthesizer 104, an input/output (I/O) processor (IOP) 106 and a sound processor unit 108. The emotion engine 102 typically includes a CPU core, co-processors and a system clock and has an associated random access memory (RAM) 110. The emotion engine 102 may perform animation calculation, traverse a scene and convert it to a two-dimensional image that may be sent to the Graphic Synthesizer (GS) 104 for rasterization.”
11th of December 2008
PlayStation Home(PS Home) sees its first Public Beta release.
Source – 311
11th of December 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3]
SKFU releases information about the vulnerabilities in PS Home.
11th of December 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Astro Tripper
PowerUp Forever
12th of December 2008
Eric Krangel from CNN Money, calls the PS3 a sinking ship.
Source – 312
14th of December 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
Ifcaro releases a pre-compiled PS3 Toolchain For Win32
15th of December 2008
[Unofficial PlayStation 3 – Computer Software]
PS3 Media Server v1.0 is released.
Source – 313
16th of December 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Rise of the Argonauts
18th of December 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2
18th of December 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Crash Commando
Catan
Lumines Supernova
Minnya no Putter Golf
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode Two
22nd of December 2008
Scientists at both University of Alabama and University of Massachusetts reveal that that they have solved a mystery about what speed vibrating black holes stop vibrating at, using a 16 PS3 cluster.
24th of December 2008
[Game Release – Digital]
Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom
Savage Moon
25th of December 2008
[Game Release – Blu-ray]
White Knight Chronicles
30th of December 2008
A group of security researchers reveal that they used a cluster of 200 PS3s to hack Verisign’s SSL certificate authority site to create fake SSL certificates, using a flaw in the MD5 algorithm, resulting in Verisign stopping the use of MD5.
Source – 314
Read about attack from the researchers.
Source – 315