Pressure's on to get the Wii price cut back into competing form with the now top-selling PS3. Will Iwata-san and the rest of the Nintendo bigwigs give in? Or can they still afford to maintain their curent price point? Find out what Michael Pachter has to say on the subject. Catch that, as well as other bits of news for the Wii and DS right here on the Nintendo Weekend Warrior.

The Wiikey Team has announced a brand new modchip for the Nintendo Wii. It's called Wiikey Fusion, a revolutionary modchip for the Wii with SD card capabilities. It will allow users to play backup ISOs from an SD card and from DVD. The new modchip is scheduled to be released in October. Check out the video demo after the break.

Hmmm... this sure is weird. Have you visited Belzar's domain lately? If you have, then you probably also found it odd to see the site is down, and "may be for sale by its owner". Don't believe me? Just check out this screencap I took just a few minutes ago in the full article.

To call this week "PS3 Week" is no exaggeration. The PS3 Slim, a US$ 100 price cut across the board, a new firmware, another Home update -- they may not have all been surprises, but Sony had a lot of announcements at GamesCom for the PlayStation faithful. devs didn't fall behind, either. PS3 headliners such as Gran Turismo 5 and God of War III also got on the frontpage with some beefy updates this week, leaving us with a rather lengthy PS3 Weekend Warrior.

Now we've seen our share of fake PS3 news before and this one looks too good to be true. According to a post from Belzar.com, they are now on the verge of releasing the worlds first full-fledged direct boot modchip for the PS3 that is packed full of useful features including multi-region DVD and blu-ray movie playback.

brkich has released another unofficial version of Nuke's Gecko OS, but has the approval of the folks behind the USB Gecko Nintendo Wii hacking/cheat code device. This version is packed with more features, plus a new GUI for your gaming convenience.


Download: Gecko OS v1.8

No need to fuss over modchip requirements. GameCube Backup Launcher's fine without it and it just got a version update. This one adds support for Freeloader and Action Replay, and as some improvements on speed performance among other things.

Download: GameCube Backup Launcher v0.2

Let's not dilly-dally anymore. We've got here a Custom IOS, an IOS that's been modified to add features that are otherwise not available in the official one. Thanks to waninkoko, once more, for this development in the Wii homebrew front. Changelog after the jump.

Wiibrew developer Wiigator is back with an update to the Wii GameCube Backup Launcher. The modchip-free backup launcher now has new bug fixes and features, including the ability to switch the game ISO for a multigame disc. Details after the link.

Download: GameCube Backup Launcher 0.1 Xi

After quite some time, Team Twiizers' DVDX app has been given an update. DVDX allows you to run both home-burned and factory-pressed DVDs without having to spring for a modchip. This release is aimed primarily at Wii owners who are running System Menu 3.4.


Download: DVDX 3.4