The Game Genie Is Back!

Remember back in the 90's when the game genie was released for various consoles? It was a wonderful new machine or "game enhancer" that would allow you to gain infinite continues, infinite lives, more energy, invincibility, skip levels, and pretty much every cheat you could think of by altering the binary code of the game you were playing. Back in the day even Nintendo tried to sue Galoob, the original makers of the Game Genie and the courts judged in favor of Galoob because they said that it in no way altered what Nintendo claimed it did, that using a Game Genie was like skipping parts of a book. Well it's been over 20 years since that time and it seems that the Game Genie is back! A company by the name of Hyperkin was released a new Game Genie version, this time it's for the PS3 and it comes in the form of a USB drive. This time around however you wont be modifying anything in the PS3 directly, rather you will put your game saves in the PS3 and then through the use of a PC you will be able to mod your game save sort of like they do for PC games. The game genie website will provide you with new codes as they are developed. The company also claims that NONE of these cheats will work for online multiplayer, and if there are some that do they will quickly eliminate them. This in my opinion is a big concern, as it is we have glitchers in the online gaming communities and now they may have the help of this device. I am not against using the Game Genie for your own gain on your offline gaming experience, some people say it breaks the game, I say hey if you think it's fun then by all means it's your game that you paid for so do with is as you like, but I do hope it doesn't break online gaming due to exploits. On the downside however the Game Genie doesn't exactly let you do things such as giving yourself invincibility, or the ability to walk through walls or even giving yourself infinite ammo, and this is because as of right now, the Game Genie only lets you alter things that are already found within the game, so if your game does not have an infinite ammo mode say after you finish it or an invincibility mode then the Game Genie will not be able to create it, there is no word on if this will change at a later date though. The Game Genie was released on July 17th this year for the PS3, and is following up with the recently released Nintendo DS version, and I'm sure more are on the way. The PS3 version retails for $29.99 and the DS version for $19.99. Will you be getting yours?