C4Eva announced he's working on a new firmware on IRC: Quote: [c4eva] new fw in dev/test – ixtreme LT (Lite Touch) – more efficient , minimal patching , all aspects of fw indistinguishable from orig, no more bans, No ETA! We do not have more details atm. As far as we know the 3 'test boxes' C4Eva...

After the release of the hack for Xenon, Falcon/Opus and Zephyr motherboards, today we get the Free60 JTAG/SMC XeLL Hack for Jasper (v4) motherboards with 16mb NAND chips (so NOT compatible with 256 & 512mb NAND yet)! This NAND image will boot your Jasper Xbox360 right into XeLL, which allows you to...

Kushan wrote a nice little article on #FW@EFnet summarizing all kinda info we have about the current Console Live Ban Wave: - (Your console has been banned) What does this mean for you and what can you do about it? Firstly, and most obviously, you cannot connect to Xbox Live on this console any more. This...

From venturebeat.com : The posting last Thursday on Craigslist was alarming. Someone was selling a Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle, with both a console and a game, for $500. The problem was that Modern Warfare 2, one of the most anticipated games of the year, doesn't officially go on sale until Nov....

While the 'banhammer' went quiet since last Friday's wave, it looks like Microsoft is banning users again today as reported by users on our forums and IRC. From majornelson.com: As you may have read online, we've been actively banning consoles from Xbox LIVE that have been modified to play pirated games. Our...