September 1 rolled around, and as promised Sony has released the latest incarnation of the Playstation 3 Firmware. A major step on this occasion taking us to 3.00. I waited patiently for this day, hoping that maybe there would be more to the release than just the recent hype. Were we going to see handling of new media types, MKV support, seamless storage and playback options. How about access to the GPU for Linux Graphical acceleration or hi-speed folding? No on all counts what we did get was......

Today I have some exciting news for you: D2SUN Have anounced a new Wii modchip which is totally solder free, and has some wild new features!

Some of you may remember my Wii Epoxy removal Guide, and remember just how difficult it used to be to install Mod Chips in the Wii.... Lots of soldering of little tiny wires, trying to make everything fit in that crammed space. Sure, the WiiClip made things a little easier, but with the multitude of different chipsets, and eventually no chip to clip to in the new revisions, a solderless mod, such as the DriveKey was a good intermediate solution, but that ModChip had a slow 4x read rate meaning graphically intensive games such as COD World at War would stuttter in some situations, well, D2SUN have done their homework with the new SUNDISK....

This article may shock some people, so I will keep the graphic content until after the jump ;-)

Bottled water sales are booming all over the world, even though most of us have a handy and safe supply of drinkable water in our own homes. Marketing gurus have convinced us that bottled water is not only neccessary, in some circles it is now fashionable to be drinking 'bottled water'.

What you may be interested to know is that in the process of bottling, transporting and let's not forget the making of the PET bottles, a lot of greenhouse gases are emmited to bring you the ever portable, potable bottled water.

Now, what you've all been wating for - the truth about bottled water:

The word on everybody's lips in the PS3 circles these last few days has been Belzar....oh and 'I think it's a fake' if that can be counted as a word....

I have been following this news with a healthy dose of scepticism over the last week or so. At first I thought perhaps this Belzar mob were an underground group coming out with the holy grail, a chip that would not only allow the playback of backup Blu-Ray games on the PS3, but magically, offer backwards compatibility with PS2, and firmware upgradeability.

However a series of comedic errors over the last few days have seen their demise (at least in the eyes of the hopeful):

Firstly, a claim that 50 chips had been sent out to beta testers, including a website owned by the owner of the Belzar.com website.

 Second, the associated website published the bizarre news that Sony were working on a PS4 and would announce it's release date soon (C'mon the slim isn't even in most stores yet!)

Third, and this is the ultimate shot in the foot, the website belzar.com (no link from this website that's for damn sure) is currently parked 'for sale' with SEDO. for a measly 5,000 pounds you can own this 'high traffic' (read: traffic gained through lies).

 Well, reader, I did try to purchase this site, for the grand sum of 1 Pound, however my bid was not high enough. Well, unfortunately I don't value the domain at more than about a Pound, so I'm going to let this one go!!!

I for one will continue to watch with interest on the PS3 modding scene, as a lover of all things modded, and no doubt we will have the wool pulled over our eyes again. But if this has spurred any developers even in the least, perhaps we can pull that much good news out of this decidedly bad news story.

Long live the PS3, please don't hurry on the PS4.... I am still waiting for ultimate gaming satisfaction (read: FFXIII & GT5) on the current iteration!