Dashhacker has finally released a public beta for Open Remote Play, an app that lets you access the PS3's Remote Play feature from your laptop, desktop, or even your phone. This is good news, but only for Mac users as the beta is currently only for Mac OS X. Non-Mac users need not worry, though, as the dev says that the API and the Windows version will be released soon.

Download: Open Remote Play v1.0 Beta for Mac OS X

Truth be told, I haven't really kept up with Dashhacker's progress on his reverse engineering of the PS3's Remote Play feature. It's still good to hear that he's made great strides towards finally releasing a usable app, though. There's even talk of an Open Remote Play beta out by Friday.

Linux may be taboo for a lot of us, but you'd better be prepared to give it a shot to try out this impressive trick. Using Yellow Dog Linux on the PlayStation 3, efaustus9 used Qemu to emulate Windows 95 on the platform, allowing him to run StarCraft.

Don't expect to run Crysis with this setup though. Watch a vid of StarCraft running on the PS3 after the link.

If you're tired of TVersity, or are simply looking for a good program to stream media files to your PlayStation 3, then you can try this app out. PS3 Media Server is a program from shagrath that allows you to transcode and stream media from your PC to your console.

Download: PS3 Media Server v1.04 (Linux)
Download: PS3 Media Server v1.04 (Mac OS X)
Download: PS3 Media Server v1.04 (Windows)

StreetskaterFU has released another update for his Linux USB Logger homebrew tool. A couple of new features have been added in this release along with a new 32-bit version. The changelog for Linux USB Logger v 0.6 is available at the full article.


Download: Linux USB Logger 0.6 (32-bit)
Download: Linux USB Logger 0.6 (64-bit)

It looks like homebrew possibilities on the PS3 have yet to die out. StreetskaterFU has informed us that he has released a USB logger that could help devs get more info on the USB traffic of a PSP or PS3 port. Hit the full article for details.

Good news for those who use Linux on their PlayStation 3s!  Yellow Dog Linux v6.1 has been released, marking the final release from Terra Soft, and the first by Fixstars. Version 6.1 an updated Firefox and OpenOffice.org, and features ps3vram functionality, enabling the use of PS3 video RAM for temporary storage or swap.

More details after the link.

Red Octane and Activision have finally announced that the Guitar Hero: World Tour (Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii) Drum Tuning Kit is now available for download. Click on through for more details.

Penny Arcade Aventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode One comes into light in just a couple of days. And not only will it bring M-rated adventure on the PSN, Hothead Games has also announced a great promo - and permanent, too, for that matter - for other versions of the game. Do check out the details at the full article.

Well now, here's something that came out of nowhere. Yesterday, someone at the PSPGen forums discovered a system recovery menu for the PS3. The French PS3 owner who made the discovery stumbled upon it after messing up his installation of Linux on FW 2.50. Hit the full article for a video and more info!