Do you use cheat devices for your games? Don't be shy. I'm not one to judge. Just want to say that if you do, then this was a good week to have a homebrew-capable PSP. We got updates for two different cheat-related apps in the past seven days. Incidentally, if you don't have a homebrew-enabled PSP yet, then the new 5.03GEN-B for HEN which was also released this week is for you. More homebrew news and updates after the jump!

The weekend's here but there's still no 5.03GEN-B for those who want to put some homebrew in their PSP-3000s thanks to more unforeseen bugs. Don't you just hate when that happens? Too bad too, since there was a nice crop of homebrew apps and games that came out in the past seven days. No worries, though -- the team behind the GEN firmware is still hard at work on a release. Hit the jump for a glimpse at the rest of the week in homebrew.

Due to some unforeseen bugs mucking up the works, custom firmware 5.50GEN-C at the start of the week turned out to be more underwhelming than we hoped. Good thing Team GENyUS was able to roll out a new revision a few days after, with another update launching in the days that followed. 5.50GEN-C may have set the week off on a sour note, but thanks to 5.50GEN-D things still turned out for the best. Read all about what else happened in the PSP Homebrew Weekend Warrior.

A lot of people got all excited when Microsoft announced Facebook and Twitter integration back in E3. A few months and a couple of firmware updates later, Microsoft is ready to bring those features into Xbox Live - at least for the UK.

Usually, when a comparatively major firmware update gets released, the first thing the homebrew community does is scrutinize the changelog. Not just the one officially posted but also the things that Sony doesn't mention. Then, it's usually decrypted pretty rapidly by one group or another. Finally, someone posts a YouTube video showing what is allegedly a working CFW version of the official update.

Things didn't go any different with OFW 6.00.

In case it wasn't painfully obvious, the new PSP Go is Sony's next move in their ongoing battle against piracy on their gaming handheld. From firmware updates to the non-removable battery, it seems Sony has really done the research.

Quite a few theories sprung up during the latter half of the week when it was announced that Dark AleX's forums were shutting down. Did it mean that the homebrew legend was leaving the scene? Did Sony shell out the cash to shut him up? Are we going to see a new version of the retire-and-reemerge trick?

Yeah, theories. While we wait for word from the "Dark" one himself, let's take a look at the week in homebrew.

Wanna know the real reason why Cross-Game chat won't be coming in FW 3.0? Yeah, it's been in the works for a while now, and people are actually expecting it to arrive with this update. Then again, that's not gonna happen, and there are some wild (and disappointing) conspiratorial theories going around as to why this is the case.

Thanks to Naroon for this tip!

Sony's really getting busy trying to bring more life into the PSP, talking with publishers and devs, trying to convince them to release titles for the handheld. Sony marketing exec John Koller takes the spotlight once again and talks to GamesIndustry about the PSP's present and future.

Great news for iPod Touch owners. The iPhone Dev Team has finally released an untethered jailbreak for the 2nd generation iPod Touch. Even better, the Dev Team has found a "fatal flaw in its bootrom that means you will always be able to pwn these devices no matter what firmware updates come along."