Nintendo Wii U - Successor to Wii is announced at E3 2011

So here we are, Nintendo has had it's press conference at E3 and once again, they pulled out the big guns. The biggest of those guns, of course was the Wii's successor, codenamed Project Café. They have now announced the name to be Wii U. In my opinion, not the best idea for a name, but certainly not the worst. 

This new console features a totally new controller, along with support all Wii controllers. The new controller is certainly a departure from the Wii remote's look. It features a 6.2-inch, 16:9 touch screen and traditional button controls, including dual analogue sticks, 4 trigger buttons and it still retains motion controls. According to Nintendo "This combination removes the traditional barriers between games, players and the TV by creating a second window into the video game world." The controller also feature a microphone and camera, which will be used for video calls. Another interesting thing about the controller is the sensor bar, this was shown to be used in conjunction with the Wii remote. At E3, it showed the Wii U controller on the floor, with a golf ball and tee on its screen, and a person using a Wii remote as a golf club. The coolest feature about the Wii U controller is the ability to transition from you playing the game on the TV to you playing it on the touch screen on the controller. Nintendo stressed that this wasn't for portable use however, the console streams the game to the controller, with no latency issues.


The Wii U will have the ability to play Wii games, but sadly not Gamecube games.

The new Wii U controller

The Wii U console itself

The console itself features:

• approximately 1.8 inches tall, 6.8 inches wide and 10.5 inches long
• an IBM Power®-based multi-core processor 
• internal flash memory, as well as the option to expand its memory using an SD card or an external HDD
• to accomodate external hard drives, there are four USB 2.0 connectors (USB 3.0 support would have been nice)
• 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p and 480i support with HDMI, component, S-video and composite cables supported

The Wii U's graphics really do look fabulous and this tech demo shows: With

While there were no games on show, Nintendo have made some tech demos to showcase the Wii U's ability to people at E3, and with some developers announcing they are bringing games like Assassin's Creed and Arkham City, it seems the Wii U will be pointing towards core gamers.

With a release in 2012 has been announced, and developers seeming really excited to develop on this system, with EA, Ubisoft and many more publishers praising its controller, 2012 and the end of the world just suddenly looked a lot better.

Please note, the Wii U is NOT an add-on for the Wii; it is a fully fledged console.

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Greenpois0n has been released for Mac and Linux

First Limera1n and now Greenpois0n have been successfully ported over to Mac OS X.

Click here download from the official site.

EDIT: Greenpois0n has also a Linux version

Sorry if this is getting pretty boring too

Limera1n for Mac is released

Just a quick post to say LIMERA1N FOR MAC HAS BEEN RELEASED

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Greenpois0n Released

Chronic Dev Team have released Greenpois0n RC1 today. Instead of utilizing the SHAtter bootrom exploit; it now uses the exploit found in Limera1n.

From what I've seen it looks pretty similar to Limera1n but as I've heard it's a lot less bug-ridden. I would recommend you to use this to jailbreak your iDevice. Tutorial coming soon.

Sorry to Mac users. This is for WINDOWS ONLY.

Limera1n RC1 released

Geohot has just announced that limera1n is out of beta and limera1n RC1b is available for download.

If you had problems jailbreak your iPhone 3GS/4, iPad and iPod touch G3/G4 using limera1n then try it again using the latest version of limera1n as many readers have reported that the new version has fixed the problems they were facing with the previous version (especially iPad users).

limera1n website briefly provided details of the improvements in the new version:

RC1: afc2 support, reliability improvements, no reboot for Cydia, 2kb smaller

RC1b: addresses an install issue, mainly with iPads

afc2 support is necessary for tools like iPhone Browser, DiskAid etc to access the file system and allow the transfer of files such as Winterboard  themes, NES ROMs, etc  to the iPhone.

If you need step by step instructions then checkout our step by step guides to:

Meanwhile, iPhone Dev Team has advised jailbreakers to take a backup of the SHSH blobs for iOS 4.1:

Because the “untethered” part of this jailbreak comes from a userland hack from @comex, you should still backup your SHSH hashes for 4.1.  Do this by either letting Cydia keep them (“make my life easier”), or using Tiny Umbrella.   This way you can always come back to an untethered, jailbreakable 4.1 on your devices after Apple has closed their 4.1 signing window (they’ll close the 4.1 window once they push out their next firmware version). If you fail to do this and ever need to restore to 4.1 again, you can still jailbreak but it will be a tethered JB (you’ll need to connect to your computer to finish the booting process, each and every time).

The simplest way to achieve this is to launch Cydia after jailbreaking your iDevice. It should automatically take a backup of the SHSH blobs.