via Eurogamer


Atlus has revealed that its 3DS Devil Summoner title is an enhanced port of 2009's Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, which never made it to Europe but did appear in the US in June of that year.

That's according to a report in Famitsu (where else), translated by Andriasang.

Devil Survivor is a tactical role-playing game set in modern Tokyo, which has been overrun by demons. The centre of the city has been sealed off and you're trapped inside, fighting to find out what happened and simply survive, as the title suggests.

Previously the game had a neat gimmick where the story took place over seven days and the game always ended when that period was over. The 3DS version, Devil Survivor Over Clock, adds an eighth day on top of that.

That's not the only change though – there are now over 150 demons to contend with, new skills, full voice-acting (over 20,000 lines of dialogue), several difficulty levels, new maps, and visuals improved to suit the 3DS' higher-resolution screen (e.g. easier-to-read dialogue boxes and a broader map display).

Devil Survivor Over Clock is due out in Japan this year, although obviously there's no word yet on any western plans for the game.

Over at Edge Online, Sony has issued their response to the recent PS3 hacking by the fail0verflow team and the root key leaked by iPhone hacker George Hotz shortly after.

“We are aware of this, and are currently looking into it,” Sony told us in a brief statement. “We will fix the issues through network updates, but because this is a security issue, we are not able to provide you with any more details.”

However fail0verflow member pytey still says otherwise though:

"The only way to fix this is to issue new hardware," he said. "Sony will have to accept this."

via Joystiq

Sure, Kinect is doing dandy, but how about the console it Kinects connects to? Quite well, really, to the tune of 50 million Xbox 360 units shipped worldwide to date. That's according to Microsoft prez Steve Ballmer at tonight's CES 2011 keynote.

Not to let Sony be alone in trumpeting its respective console's online service user numbers, Ballmer just dropped some additional facts and figures on his audience about Xbox Live usage: 30 million people have accounts on XBL, up five million from November 2010. (On November 11 of last year, it was revealed that 25 million accounts had been created overall.)

Hey, Microsoft -- you keep signing 'em up, we'll keep muting 'em.

"PlayStation 3's internal security scheme is a shambles, with all of its major anti-piracy features failing abysmally. The system is so vulnerable that hackers now have the exact same privileges as Sony in deciding what code can run on the console."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3-security-in-tatters

What does this mean? we now have full control over the ps3 for running code, no mod chip or dongles needed.  PS3s are now homebrew friendly right out of the box.  Homebew fan did not have it so good since the Dreamcast days!

Also it seems that there is nothing sony can do to stop it, firmware updated etc are useless.  Only only fix is a hardware revision , but we already have about 45million ps3 in the wild (compared to the dreamcasts total 10million), that's a lot of potential home brewers.

Fail0verflow, the creators of this hack lay the blame of this squarely on Sony decision to remove OtherOS from the PS3, which activated hackers  to expose the security shortcomings of the system.