A number of happenings related to the PS3 have occurred since the last time we wrote the story about Sony's court action against George Hotz - what follows is a brief rundown of events.

The [URL=http://www.examiner.com/video-game-news-in-national/3-56-firmware-update-preventing-hdd-upgrades-for-newer-playstation-3-models]Examiner[/URL] and [URL=http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/sonys-latest-ps3-firmware-gaffe-hd-upgrades-temporarily-impossible.ars]Ars Technica[/URL] reported that the recently released firmware may have - at least temporarily - broken some stuff. The report points to a problem with the original and the Slim models of the PS3 not being able to upgrade to a new hard drive. According to several users on NeoGAF and HighDef Forum, the 3.56 firmware prevents the newer PlayStation 3 models with 16 MB flash from being upgradeable to a new hard disk drive. [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/02/02/ps3-turns][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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