Sony is not going to be happy today. See, somebody’s just figured out a way to crack open its latest baby, the Xperia Play. The Xperia Play is a smartphone with the ability to play original PlayStation games on it, and until now people had to make do with the PSOne games Sony was releasing via the PlayStation Suite. I say until now, because an Android developer named Yifan Lu found a way to get the phone’s included emulator to recognize game files not acquired through Sony.

What makes Yifan Lu’s work special is that it’s actually based entirely on the PlayStation emulator Sony has built into the Xperia Play…

Despite all of its shortcomings, the Android platform is still the best when it comes to customizing the device to your liking. One of the latest Android hacks allows either a Sixaxis or DualShock 3 controller to pair with the device. Before trying your hand at this hack, you need to have a rooted Android device.

For almost two months, the hacking group known as LulzSec has been breaking into websites, shutting down websites and releasing stolen information. LulzSec’s agenda seemed to be nothing more than a group of six people basking in the media attention its exploits created. LulzSec has publicly announced the end to its activities and released a bunch of new documents containing user information as a parting gift.

This news is almost identical to the several website hacking related stories that we’ve covered in the past. The latest victims are Sega Pass users. The hackers stole some personal information, but financial information was not stored in the Sega Pass database. This is indeed getting very old.

Yes, it has happened again. Bethesda is the newest victim of a hack that occurred over the weekend. No financial information was taken, but usernames, passwords and email addresses were. We know this is getting old, but you have to change all your passwords once again just to be on the safe side.

This isn’t the kind of news we’d like to start off the week with, but it may very well affect you. Hackers are breaking into gaming websites left and right. Codemasters was recently hacked, Nintendo’s site was breached and the drama never seems to end with hackers making a mockery of Sony’s web security. The next two victims are Epic Games and Nintendo’s UK site.

Website hacks in the videogame industry are becoming a common occurrence these days. Sony has been on the offensive for several weeks and Nintendo was recently the victim of a website breach. We’ve now learned that the Codemasters (DiRT 3, Overlord series) website was hacked on June 3, 2011.

While everyone was jumping on Sony’s back during the aftermath of the PlayStation Network hack, Nintendo was recovering from an attack of its own. One of Nintendo’s servers was also broken into in April. Unlike PSN, the hackers did not take any customer details. The group taking credit for the hack is called LulzSec.

It appears Sony has not fully protected its network as well as it believed. If you try to log in to the PlayStation or Qriocity sites, you’ll be greeted with a maintenance message. This is believed to be the result of a new exploit that allows hackers to change user passwords. The only thing a hacker needs is the email address associated with the PSN account and the date of birth of the user. This is just a portion of the information that was reported stolen in the PSN hack a few weeks back.

Anonymous: an online community of hackers notorious for hacking into government sites and sticking it to ‘the man’. Their activities include releasing government information about war crimes, striking back at anti-piracy enforcers, and generally sticking up for the little guy, whoever they think he is. Note the motto on the flier. It almost sounds like something out of a movie, but this real (if loose) group of people actually exists, and up until recently, was viewed with some admiration by gamers, who can only imagine that hackers are gamer geeks as well (after all, gamers use computers just like Anonymous, right?).