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There have been rumblings today that the PS3 may finally of been hacked to enable home brew and to be able to play backup games from a USB HDD.

With E3 starting today with Microsoft’s press conference we will be rounding up all the latest news and providing links to all impressions and articles here, so keep checking back here for roundups of the latest and greatest E3 news as and when it happens.

So it really was the iPhone 4g that has leaked, the guys over at Gizmodo have got the device and have had extensive hands on time with it and can confirm that it is indeed the next version of the iPhone which is due to be announced in June.

Rumours are surfacing which suggest that Apple may begin to use AMD’s x86 chips inside their Macbook and iMac range of computers, Apple already do use AMD owned ATI graphics chips in some of their product offerings.

Flash has become ubiquitous on the web these days, its used for everything (rightly or wrongly) from video streaming, website navigation and online games. The question is: should we care if we use flash or should we move to the new HTML5 standard?

A thought I’ve been having a lot lately, especially with playing the latest Final Fantasy and games such as Football Manager is: Are games too cheap?

Gaming revenue has increased 50% in the months of January and February when compared to November and December of last year, the gaming revenue for paid games in January and February is believed to top $900,000.

We have known for a while that Sony has a motion controller for their Playstation 3 coming out later in the year, but finally at GDC they have named the device, given us a rough ballpark for pricing and shown us some actual games demonstrating what the device can actually do.

There are some ingenious people out there with a lot of times on there hands who are able to produce some stunning case mods for existing games consoles, below you will find my favourite 5 games console mods.

There are over 140,000 apps on the iTunes appStore so sifting through all of these to find the gems can be daunting, fear not, we have done the hard work so you don’t have to. We have compiled a list of our 10 favourite apps that the appStore has to offer.