The AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ has shown up on Newegg. Another great move by Sony it's raising the price for its PS3 in Canada. The Nintendo Wii has been hacked and can now play backups.

On first inspection the chip looks unlike most mods seen in consoles and appears to be some kind of 8-pin PIC (a programmable micro-controller), leading many to speculate that the device is fake. In fact PICs were often used in defeating the security implementations of the original Playstation, and it's entirely possible the team has programmed a PIC to do the same for the Wii.