This we credit to QJ.NET Forums moderator FreePlay for pointing out while I drowned in DirectX dreams. It appears that Alek and Mathieulh, reputable personalities of the PSP homebrew scene, have figured out how backup games can be run on the PlayStation 3. And since the new development restarted the whispers of PS3 ISO loaders and what-have-yous five hours ago, moderator FreePlay managed to figure out how it could be accomplished.

Someone's playing liberator again and "freeing" some of the games offered over the recently launched WiiWare service. We've heard that downloads of WiiWare titles are being seeded over torrent avenues, and this feat has been attributed to a circumvention of security over Nintendo's servers. Get more details at the full story.

In this day and age, thieves have gone high tech as well. Case in point: certain players of Blizzard's World of Warcraft have had their accounts hacked, and the hackers are apparently using virus-infected FRAPS. More viral news follows after the jump.

If you put pit laptops running on the Mac OS, Windows Vista, and Linux against hackers, which OS do you think would last the longest? Apparently, it's Linux. In this year's PWN 2 OWN contest, no one was able to hack the laptop running on the Linux OS. Which of the other two went down first? Better read the full article to find out.

(Editor's Note: From highs and lows, and everything in between, QuickPeek 37 is going to hit you hard - and it's going to hit you good.)

Time to grab your trusty QuickPeek walking stick, because there's lots and lots of catching up to do. The gaming industry's taken the high road, and that's our cue to help you guys out. Time for the weekly roll call of the hottest items that dropped in during the past seven days! It's one heck of a landslide, folks!

If you think you've seen all there is to see when ti comes to crazy stuff that people do with the Wiimote, you're mistaken. Now, it's not only hackers who are making their own motion-sensing controller variations. Full-blown companies are getting into the act as well. Motus has announced its Darwin controller and it uses technology more accurate than Nintendo's innovative device. See the full details after the jump.

Not long after Segher and Brushing demonstrated a savegame exploit on the Nintendo Wii, Team ICE came forward with an exploit of their own for the Sony PlayStation 3. Yet again it involves a .TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) file, but this time it invokes a specific error in the heap data area of Sony's next generation console. More information at the full story.

Ever had your system accessed by unsavory elements? Well, let's hope it doesn't happen. Researchers from Indiana University, however, have pointed out that the number of unsecured Wi-Fi connections that have been popping up in various cities might make attacks on computer systems much more common than before.

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Buying in-game loot using real money is illegal and frowned upon in many an MMORPG, but it still thrives nonetheless. Among the many MMORPGs that don't allow these kinds of transactions is Final Fantasy 11 Online. In their efforts to stop Real Money Transactions (RMT), they've even set up an enforcing body within the community as their Special Task Force. Read the full article for more of Square Enix's efforts to stop RMTs.

Here's a quick heads-up for those wondering what TyRaNiD's been up to lately. The developer was spotted over at the recently concluded 24th Chaos Communication Congress, where he gave a lecture on the matter of PSP Exploits. The video's available for viewing in the full article.