If you’ve ever bought a modchip that adds features to your game console, you might have noticed sanded-off IC markings, epoxy blobs, or just obscure chips with unknown source code. It’s ironic – these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who needs George Hotz anyway? A USB modchip for the PS3 has emerged from the mists this morning, purporting to allow the dumping of games onto nearby storage -- the console's internal HDD and external ...

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" ...

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 ...

The on-chip backdoor has been closed, but that didn't stop hackers from finding a way. TeamXecutor has created a new customized modchip that allows SX OS to run on the new revised Switch and Switch ...

Nintendo Switch hackers suggest they've found vulnerabilities that might open doors for pirated games. Fail0verflow has a hack that works on all Switch firmwares. Nintendo Switch is available now for ...

A daytime television legal precedent was set earlier this year in a landmark case involving Wii mod chip shenanigans. More interesting than plaintiff Joseff Ben David suing defendant Eyal Levinshtein ...

No longer are you forced to break open a PS2 to solder a modchip in or swap off the top for the disc switching method to play “homebrew” games on Sony’s previous-gen console. The Vast memory card ...

It’s only been two days since the first PlayStation 2 Memory Card slot modchip was announced, but a separate group has popped up and and claimed that they’ve been working on a similar product for two ...