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 ...

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 ...

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After years of work, hackers have finally managed to unlock the PS4 hardware with an exploit that lets the system run homebrew and pirated PS4 software. In a somewhat more surprising discovery, those ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 kernel-level exploit first discovered on the PS4. While ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sony has stealthily removed the jailbreak exploit for its flagship home console via the recently launched PS4 update 4.73. That’s at least according to new reports filtering onto the web today, which ...