• Sony Takes Geohot to Court Over PS3 Jailbreak

    // Gradly // blog, Consoles, News, PS3 1 Response

    George Hotz

    Sony has just filed a restraining order against Geohot and members of team fail0verflow for jailbreaking the Sony Playstation 3.

    Defendants George Hotz, “Bushing,” Hector Cantero, Sven Peter and “Segher” (collectively, “Defendants”) are computer hackers. Working individually and in concert with one another, Defendants recently bypassed effective technological protection measures (“TPMs”) employed by plaintiff Sony Computer Entertainment America LLP (“SCEA”) in its proprietary PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system (“PS3 System”). Through the Internet, Defendants are distributing software, tools and instructions (collectively, “Circumvention Devices”) that circumvent the TPMs in the PS3 System and facilitate the counterfeiting of video games. Already, pirated video games are being packaged and distributed with these circumvention devices. Declaration of Ryan T. Bricker In Support of Ex Parte Motion for Temporary Restraining Order And Order To Show Cause Re Preliminary Injunction; Order for Impoundment (“Bricker Decl.”) ¶2, Exh. A. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65 and Local Rules 65-1 and 7-10, SCEA moves ex parte to put an immediate halt to the ongoing distribution of these illegal Circumvention Devices and avoid irreparable harm to SCEA and to other video game software developers stemming from video game piracy.

    Hopefully the courts will use the same logic that Library of Congress Copyright Office used when ruling that iPhone jailbreaking was legal. “When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by the maker of the smartphone or the maker of its operating system, the modifications that are made purely for the purpose of such interoperability are fair uses.”

    Geohot has been instrumental in the iPhone jailbreak scene. If anyone would like to offer him assistance you can find the Motion For TRO and Proposed Order as well as his contact details at the link below…

    Update:
    Sony’s filings are for a temporary restraining order that demand all information about the jailbreak be removed from the web. A full lawsuit is expected in a few days time.

    [via: iclarified]

  • How to take Stunning Interior & Engine Shots in Gran Turismo 5

    // Gradly // blog, Consoles, Games, PS3 3 Responses

    Gran Turismo 5

    – This ONLY works in PHOTO TRAVEL w/ a Premium Car.

    – Specifically in only two locations:

    1. Step#1 – In Luzern Chapel Bridge you MUST place your car in location # 2 & #4, #2 is adjacent to the Chapel by the water.
    2. Step#2 – Position your car with the desired interior side you wish to shoot from, keep in mind you do not have alot of free movement with the camera in this location.
    3. Step#3 – Walk as close to the car as you can, either if it’s the rear window, driver side window, passenger side window. etc.
    4. Step#4 – Set your F value all the way up so there is no blur effect
    5. Step#5 – Simply level your camera to the height of the window, and ZOOM IN.

    That is all! I have yet to hear anyone do it, you simply glitch through the glass. And this only works in this location, alot of my weird angles are because you can glitch through the whole car itself. So a lot of times you get good angles.

    Gran Turismo 5

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    [via: gtplanet]

  • Gran Turismo 5: Win Jaguar XJ13 & Home Racing suit for FREE!

    // Gradly // blog, Consoles, Download, Facebook, PS3 1 Response

    – Go to Facebook App page take it on the track
    – Play “Shot in the Dark“.

    Choose Just play and finish the complete game and wait to the end

    – Choose 5 peoples of your friends to do Grudge, or anytime after playing the game once you can click Create Grudge

    Select any set of peoples and write what you want in the comment and click next

    – Now the page is stuck in load state, wait for 5 minutes before you refresh the page

    – Repeat Grudge for different People wait 5 minutes until you succeed.

    – Finally go to your profile page and on the right side is your code

    + Source: GTPlanet

  • What have you done for 6 years Polyphony Digital?

    // Gradly // blog, Consoles, Games, PS3 1 Response

    Kazunori Yamauchi

    Gran Turismo 5 has finally launched globally and here why it sucks:

    1. Why can’t you upgrade the brakes? Why are performance upgrades as well as body upgrades so limited?

    2. You can’t paint your car any color unless you’ve owned that car in that color first?

    3. Why are there only 200 premium cars as compared to Forza 3’s 500+ fully premium cars with cockpit views?

    4. Why do some tracks look so bad while others are superb?

    5. Why is there only 2 online play modes?

    6. Why is there no clutch in this game (whats the point of using Logitec G27 wheel with clutch)?

    7. Why is the damage so unrealistic, and the most you get is panels coming slightly off?

    8. The menus are inconsistent by any means.

    9. Why do 800 cars look like GT4 cars but in HD and without cockpit views?

    10. Why there are lots of burned shadows and you hardly get the chance to see a clean dashboard?

    11. There is no “upload to Youtube” feature that promised

    12. No proper settings whether camera tracking, damage, day/night transition are currently turned on/off.

    WHAT HAVE THEY DONE FOR 6 YEARS?

    This is why the game sucks. It was much of hype & I Was so excited