People continue to ask me why I, a Modern Warfare 2 veteran, am choosing to abandon all I know and convert to Battlefield: Bad Company 2 when it launches on March 5th (aside from the fact it's an excellent title, of course). In light of today’s post, perhaps their relentless probing will cease.

George Hotz, the American hacker famed for unlocking Apple’s iPhone from the AT&T network shortly after its launch in 2007, has managed to configure a PlayStation 3 to read pirated and homemade software, making him the first to successfully hack the deemed ‘unhackable’ games console.