It's hard to believe that the PS3 nearing 6 years of age. It's been a long road on both the gaming and scene fronts. If you want to go down that special lane again and see how the PS3 came to be today or want to learn some new stuff, take a look at The Complete History Of The PS3.

It's been a heated month between dongle teams True Blue and JB-King. Tensions arose after True Blue made their anti clone protections public, in an effort to warn users and manufacturers of clone dongles. JB-King has taken care of that for its share of users by releasing firmware v2.51 for their dongles. Users can now continue to enjoy their games and homebrew such as The Catachthonic.

This weeks round up brings us some really good tools for your PS3 that you will definitely want to check out.  And of course, it wouldn't be another download and homebrew round up without a cool homebrew game from ThatOtherPerson.  So let's see what is on the menu today.

2011 ended with a ton of great homebrew downloads for  all of your favorite consoles and it looks like 2012 is off to another great start.

Time sure does fly when you are having fun.  This week have some cool homebrew apps for your Xbox 360, PSP and PS3.

Mortal Kombat 9 developer NetherRealm Studios seems to have a new project up their sleeve.

A large title update for the popular football/soccer series causes a wave of problems for Xbox 360 and PS3 owners.

Homebrew coder SuperFury1 has dropped by our forums to release a new version of POPStation PSP, a nifty app from the good ole' days that allows you to convert PSX games to eboot using your PSP.

Homebrew coder extraordinaire neur0n is back on the scen to release a new build of his LCFW (or Light custom firmware) and CFW ME for firmware 6.60.

Game tie up also in the works.

If you love customizing your PSP, you might want to take a gander at NightStar3 and codestation's newly released ZeroVSH Patcher.

Homebrew coder neur0n has updated his LCFW (or Light custom firmware) and CFW ME for firmware 6.60.

Japanese coder extraordinaire neur0n is back on the homebrew scene to update his latest custom firmware projects, LCFW (or Light custom firmware) and CFW 6.60 ME for the PlayStation Portable.

Here it is folks! From homebrew devs Coldbird, Virtuous Flame (aka Liquidzigong) and the rest of Team Pro comes the long awaited update of their Pro custom firmware for the PlayStation Portable.

Homebrew developer Frostegater has released a new version of his permanent patching solution for Total_Noob's 6.20 TN-E, bumping it up to version 3.

Homebrew coder suloku has compiled the latest version xReader, a handy text and comics reader with built-in audio player for homebrewed-capable PSPs.

Homebrew developer Takka has updated the ISO Tool app again, bringing it up to version 1.978.

Homebrew coder plum has released a quick version update for the MP3PlayerPlugin app.

PSP coder plum has released version 2.0 of his nifty homebrewed app, MP3PlayerPlugin.

Crytek has released a new patch for the PC version of Crysis 2, adding a new "Advanced Graphics Options" menu which will allow you to tweak the graphics settings beyond the presets and more.

Following the earlier release of the 6.20 TN-E Permanent Patch, homebrew coder Frostegater has released a new version that now comes with a recovery menu option.

There's a 6.20 TN-D permanent patch out, so it goes to follow that there will be one for 6.20 TN-E too, right?

Someone's got their hands on a leaked copy of Tomb Raider reboot's script.

And it still uses the original iOS 4.3.1 exploit which Apple somehow failed to patch.

Here it is folks, courtesy of graf_chokolo and Geoffrey Levand comes the PS3 Dual Boot GameOS / Linux Custom Firmware (CFW) which allows users to  dual boot on both the GameOS and OtherOS (Linux).

Homebrew coder Takka has added a new feature to the ISO Tool app.

The folks at Netherrealm is hard at work finishing up a brand new game update for Mortal Kombat that addresses soem serious bugs on the games multiplayer mode.

Crysis 2 gets another patch for the PC, thanks to Crytek.

Homebrew dev Takka is back on the scene to update his handy homebrewing app, ISO Tool.

Hombrew devs Coldbird and Virtuous Flame (aka Liquidzigong) continues to improve their custom firmware projects with the release of Custom Firmware 6.20 and 6.35 PRO-B5, fixing some of the issues from the previous release.

True to form, Total_Noob has released the 6.20 TN-E that the homebrew coder had promised.

Japanese coder neur0n has been a roll lately, releasing and updating his custom firmware programs for the PSP.  His last endeavour, bringing his custom firmware 6.38 to PSP fat users. Now his back on the scene once again to release a new version of his 6.35 Custom, a custom firmware that is only compatible with hackable PSP 2000 models.

It's been a while since we last heard from homebrew dev Total_Noob, but now he's back on the scene to announce the fifth revision of his homebrew enabler project, TN Hen.

Homebrew developer neur0n has released an update for the 6.35 Custom custom firmware.

Homebrew coder Takka has released a new version of his ISO Tool, a handy homebrew app lets PSP owners to decrypt, convert, and patch new ISOs to make them compatible with not just the latest custom firmwares, it now also supports the official PSP firmwares.

Homebrew coder neur0n is back on the scene to update his 6.35 Custom Firmware for PSP 2000 (non-TA088v3 models).

Homebrew dev Takka is back on the scene to release a new version of his ISO Tool, a handy homebrewing app that allows users to decrypt, convert and patch all the latest ISOs, making it compatible with the latest custom firmwared PSP and is now also available for offical firmware users.

For Netherrealms' associate producer Erin Piepergerdes, it's not really Mortal Kombat's gore that keeps people coming back for more, it's the gameplay.

Homebrew coder raing3 has released a new version of TempAR, a handy NitePR/MKULTRA mod for all your cheating needs.

A quick fix update for neur0n's PSP 2000 exclusive (non-TA088v3 models) 6.35 Custom Firmware that deals with the NidResolver issues and some crashes from the previous release is now out folks

PSP coder NightStar3 is back on the scene to release a new version of ZeroRCO Patcher, a handy plugin that now works on firmware 6.20, 6.31, and 6.35 that allows users to load custom gameboots and modified RCO files from the memory stick without touching the flash of their respective firmwares.

Homebrew developer Takka has released another update for the ISO Tool app, bumping it up to version 1.968. Hit the jump for the changelog and download link.

Homebrew coder neur0n continues to improve his own 6.35 custom firmware for PSP 2000 (non-TA088v3) with a new beta release, bringing a slew of new features and improvements that further expands the capability of the homebrewed firmware.

It didn't take long for the Chronic Dev Team to jailbreak the Verizon iPhone. Just hours after the new units arrived to waiting customers, the team has announced the release of Greenpois0n RC5.4 for iOS 4.2.6.

Wow, that was quick! Just a day after releasing version 7 of his 6.35 custom firmware for PSP 2000 (non-TA088v3) models, neur0n is back on the scene to release a quick bug fix update that deals with some flaws from the pevious update.

Can't wait for the Devil May Cry reboot? Well, here's your chance to catch up once again with the series, but this time in the palm of your hands as Capcom releases today Devil May Cry 4 Refrain, an iOS adaptation of the classic title.