A modchip is a small PCB that mounts directly on a larger board, tapping into points on that board to make it do something it wasn’t meant to do. We’ve typically seen modchips used with gaming ...

If you’ve ever bought a modchip that adds features to your game console, you might have noticed sanded-off IC markings, epoxy blobs, or just obscure chips with unknown source code. It’s ironic – these ...

Belgian researcher Lennert Wouters revealed at Black Hat how he mounted a successful fault injection attack on a user terminal for SpaceX’s satellite-based internet system A Belgian security ...

Who needs George Hotz anyway? A USB modchip for the PS3 has emerged from the mists this morning, purporting to allow the dumping of games onto nearby storage -- the console's internal HDD and external ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. An Australian seller of Wii, PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 modchips has posted video showing the famously impregnable PlayStation 3 running "back-up" ...

Nintendo has won a $2 million settlement against a person who sold modded Switch hardware, which allowed pirated games to be played on the system. The company also claimed that the modder operated a ...

The new revised Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite systems have been hacked thanks to a new custom modchip. The on-chip backdoor has been closed, but that didn't stop hackers from finding a way.

Nintendo Switch hackers suggest they've found vulnerabilities that might open doors for pirated games. Fail0verflow has a hack that works on all Switch firmwares. Nintendo Switch is available now for ...

No longer are you forced to break open a PS2 to solder a modchip in or swap off the top for the disc switching method to play “homebrew” games on Sony’s previous-gen console. The Vast memory card ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. A daytime television legal precedent was set earlier this year in a landmark case involving Wii mod chip shenanigans. More interesting than plaintiff ...