Less than 24 hours after the game’s release, hackers have found a way to reinstate the violent scenes in the PSP version of Manhunt 2.

The hack restores the game to its original full-gore version, which means that Rockstar didn’t cut offensive material in order to get the M rating, they simply disabled it.

The question is, did they follow that route for simple expediency, or because they knew they could count on the gaming community to find a way to play the game the way Rockstar originally intended? Perhaps a bit of both.

Let the countdown to the ESRB’s inevitable freakout begin. I figure we’ll also be hearing from a certain Floridian lawyer before long, too.

Source: GamesIndustry

The Guitar Hero III demo is now available on Xbox Live, though you may have already tried it if you picked up Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground or the December issue of Official Xbox Magazine.

You may even have downloaded a less-than-legal copy from various websites last week, though I don’t encourage such behavior. Yarr.

You don’t need a guitar to play the demo, but obviously it’s more enjoyable if you use one.

The demo includes five songs:

• Lay Down (Priestess)
• Rock You Like a Hurricane (Scorpions)
• Even Flow (Pearl Jam)
• Hit Me with Your Best Shot (Pat Benatar)
• The Metal (Tenacious D)

Guitar Hero III is going to be one of the best selling games of 2007 I believe. Thoughts?

I actually knew this a few days ago, but Capcom has officially announced that Lost Planet, previously a Windows PC and Microsoft Xbox 360 exclusive, will be coming to the PlayStation 3 early next year.

The PS3 version benefits from the delay by including 16 different multiplayer maps and new playable characters that weren’t available in previous retail versions.

Overall I found Lost Planet to be so-so, but tooling around in those Vital Suits was a bundle of fun.

Heads up arcade gamers, version 0.119 of MAME32 and the Windows command line version of MAME were both released today and are now available for download in my MAME section.

In the coming days MAME OS X (Mac), MacMAME (Macintosh) and XMAME (Unix) should be updated too. Enjoy!

Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator allows you to play almost any old-school arcade/console game right on your computer.

MAME has been around for quite some time and is used by thousands of gaming geeks on their Personal Computers.

Some people, including myself have gone all out and built custom MAME cabinets so we can have the full arcade look and feel right in our home.

I love MAME and that’s why I was really happy to find out MAME has been ported for the Xbox.

If you haven’t noticed, I have a page dedicated to the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

It’s geektastic when someone comes up with a cool hack like this.

Just imagine every single old-school game you own accessible via a slick, simple interface and playable right from your Xbox. Sounds pretty cool, right?

Here’s what you will need:

• A modded Xbox
• MAMEoX (v0.84.3b)

Don’t have a modden Xbox? You can learn more about modding your own Xbox at Xbox-Scene.

The MAMEoX project offers the entire source code you will need to compile a working copy of MAME.

If you’re unfamiliar with compiling applications on your XBOX, you’ll need to find the pre-compiled binaries. You can download it here.

Keep in mind that the Xbox version I’m offering for download is an older version (v0.84.3b) but it will get you started.

Install and have fun!

Be sure to let me know how your Xbox hack works out.

Just a small heads up to my gaming, arcade and MAME friends that I’m now offering up a version of MAME that supports Mac OS X on my MAME page.

As most of us in the gaming community know, the MacMAME project has been dormant for over a year, so this is a nice bit of news for people who want to run the latest version MAME under OS X and yes, this version does support Intel based chip sets.

For the Apple geeks in the room, this latest release is designed to take advantage of all the latest OS X technologies, like Core Video, Core Image and OpenGL. This not only ensures the best performance but allows real-time Core Image filtering on the emulation output.

The other versions of MAME will be updating in the coming days, so be sure to check back for more information.