Latest PS3 firmware update brings the bans for Black Ops hacks
by Griffin McElroy 
on Jan 28th 2011 10:50AM
Dirty, dirty
Black Ops cheaters that downloaded the
new PS3 firmware, update 3.56, are finding out exactly what Sony meant when it said the patch would help bolster "security." A
grip of consoles have been permanently banned from
Black Ops multiplayer servers for hacking or cheating after their users installed the new firmware -- though some of the outspoken among the banned are contesting the presumption that they are cheaters on the game's
official forums. (Which is like, the first thing you'd do if you were a dirty, dirty cheater.)
In a seemingly cooperative attack executed by two
mortal enemies, firmware 3.56 joins last week's mandatory Xbox Live update, which
also stopped pirated and modded copies of
Black Ops and
Modern Warfare 2 in their tracks. Is Activision's cash cow so powerful that the publisher can request its own console updates at will? If that's the case, Activision: Would you please, please ask Sony to add cross-game chat?
Oh, and see if Microsoft will bring black
the blades. We miss
the blades.
