Writer with a particular interest in the obscure. The exploit quickly caught the attention of prominent figures in the modding community, with some comparing it to the FreeDVDBoot hack for PlayStation ...

Hackers have released details of a new exploit that allows homebrew and custom firmware to be installed on PS4 consoles running relatively recent firmware. What’s more, the specifics of the exploit ...

Gaming consoles are powerful machines that — in recent generations — have become similar to desktop computers in terms of hardware and capabilities. Despite all of that power, however, these gaming ...

PS4 and PS4 Pro owners now have a way to jailbreak their consoles, thanks to a small team of hackers who released a kernel exploit earlier this week. The jailbreak, maturely named “pOOBs4,” allows ...

Update 2: Sony now says it has fixed the viral messaging exploit that was sending PS4 consoles into a never-ending crash loop. Yesterday Sony told VG247 that a fix was coming in a system software ...

Over the weekend, PS4 users started issuing out warnings about message going around on the PlayStation Network that was causing consoles to brick. A temporary fix prevented you from receiving the ...

Do you own a PS4? Do you like updating the system software? Then you're going to love this! The PS4 system update 6.02 has just gone live, with Sony only revealing that "This system software update ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Hackers have been circling the PS5 for almost a year now, and it appears they may have finally managed to jailbreak the 2020 hardware with a new ...

Since this exploit is based on the software emulator packaged with these PS2-on-PS4 games, I'm not sure a hardware revision will help, TBH. As I note in the piece, you can patch future downloadable ...

Update 10/16/18: Sony says that it's now rolled out a fix for the malicious message exploit. Over the weekend, PlayStation 4 users began reporting their consoles were being rendered inoperable upon ...