During last week's Chaos Communication Congress event in Germany, console hacking team "fail0verflow" showed off their most recent project: a PS4 Linux port. After finding exploits in the PS4's ...

This current generation of consoles, both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, did something substantially different from their predecessors. For the first time, they sported desktop PC components ...

We are often hearing about people shoehorning various OSes, games and apps onto new or old systems they clearly weren't designed for. Obvious examples are playing the classic FPS game Quake on a ...

Remember when the PlayStation 3 had that “Other OS” option, which allowed owners to run Linux or FreeBSD on the console? That was a rather neat feature until Sony nuked it with the release of firmware ...

At the 2010 Chaos Communication Congress, fail0verflow (that’s a zero, not the letter O) demonstrated their jailbreak of the PS3. At the 2013 CCC, fail0verflow demonstrated console hacking on the Wii ...

Hacking group fail0verflow has taken the biggest stride yet toward a full-scale hack of Sony’s PS4. The group, which Eurogamer reports has previously been responsible for discovering exploits on the ...

A group called Fail0verflow has demonstrated what appears to be the world's first deep low-level hack of the PlayStation 4. They are bypassing the console's security system, Fail0verflow managed to ...

It's been some since we've heard about impressive mods to get game consoles running software and games they're not meant to, but thanks to Failoverflow, a collective of console hackers, there's ...

Is this a ghost of Christmas past come to visit? Are we looking back on past generations of consoles as hackers make PlayStations run operating systems that they shouldn't? No, not at all, it's just ...

Hacking teamfail0verflow last week demonstrated a hack of Sony’s PlayStation 4 game console that allows anyone running the modification to run the Linux OS on the appliance. The demo was part of a ...