A modchip is a small PCB that mounts directly on a larger board, tapping into points on that board to make it do something it wasn’t meant to do. We’ve typically seen modchips used with gaming ...

Ever since video game consoles moved to optical discs, manufacturers and users have battled over backups. Manufacturers fear that if they allow users to burn disc backups, users will download and burn ...

The original Sony PlayStation came out just in time for CD piracy to really start taking off. Aware of this threat to sales, Sony engineers included a copy protection and region locking mechanism that ...

Belgian researcher Lennert Wouters revealed at Black Hat how he mounted a successful fault injection attack on a user terminal for SpaceX’s satellite-based internet system A Belgian security ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. An Australian seller of Wii, PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 modchips has posted video showing the famously impregnable PlayStation 3 running "back-up" ...

The first PS3 Modchip has arrived that allows you to backup games to nearby storage without the need for any console surgery. Either the console’s internal HDD and external drives will work with the ...

Nintendo has won a $2 million settlement against a person who sold modded Switch hardware, which allowed pirated games to be played on the system. The company also claimed that the modder operated a ...

If you thought those shady modchips were just for the console crowd, think again: a hardware device for simplifying the installation of Apple's MacOS X operating system on a generic x86 PC has been ...

Of course, that doesn't stop people trying. The first working "modchip" on sale in Australia can let PlayStation 3 owners store games on their hard drive and promises to be easy enough to be used by ...

We've seen plenty of Wii hacks since its November release, and we've even seen a completely uninspiring "hack" to run backup discs, but this time, we're thinking it's for real. The Wiinja modchip is ...