Nintendo has announced the successor to it’s highly successful Wii console, the Nintendo Wii U. There’s currently very little information about the console aside from the controller which Nintendo has touted in this year’s E3 convention. While the Wii U supports all existing Wii controllers (wiimotes, the wii balance board, etc) the center of attraction [...]
Those wishing to relive the nostalgia of Metal Gear but with the benefits of modern hardware may want to start saving cash right about now. During a Pre-E3 press conference, Hideo Kojima of Konami has just announced the Metal Gear Solid HD collection. The MGS HD Collection includes Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, [...]
To compensate users for the downtime, PSN customers in the US (or those with accounts on the US PSN Store) will be offered free games as part of the “Welcome Back” appreciation program by Sony. For PS3s owners with US PSN accounts, you can select two from the following list of games. Dead Nation inFAMOUS [...]
Time for some good news from Sony. Via a press release sent out today, it seems that the restoration of the whole PlayStation Network service has started today. Phased restoration will begin on a country to country basis, starting with America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. The following services will be the [...]
According to Shigenori Yoshida, a spokesperson for Sony Japan, the PlayStation Network may not be fully operational again until 31st May. This confirms past announcements by the company that the PSN and services tied to it will be brought up incrementally. As you may know, we’ve begun the process of restoring the service through internal [...]
With the PlayStation Network still in recovery after the hacking incident that took down the whole system, Sony announced that it discovered another possible attack on Sunday. At risk are personal details and over 12,700 customer credit card numbers and about 10,700 direct debit records of certain customers in Austria, Germany, Netherlands, and Spain. The [...]
In a press conference in Tokyo, May 1, 2011, Sony has issued officially statemetns addressing the recent attack on the PlayStation Network. Sony Computer Entertainment CEO, Kaz Hirai says that there are about 10 million credit cards registered with the PlayStation Network and that information on these are encrypted and in fact stored on a [...]
Sony has just released an official update regarding the status of the PlayStation Network and it is not one to be taken lightly. Personal information stored by users on their PSN accounts has been compromised. This includes your name, address, country, email, birthday and PSN login details. “It is also possible that your profile data, [...]
Amidst the tons of speculation as to what happened to Sony’s PlayStation Network that’s causing the extended downtime, reddit user chesh420 reveals that it could be due to a new custom firmware. Known as Rebug, the recently released CFW turns a retail-bought console into a developer console, basically allowing you to have access to the [...]
A source with close ties to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has confirmed that the PSN was the target of an LOIC attack (a form of denial-of-service attack) in parallel with a concerted attack on the PlayStation servers holding account information. According to the source, who wishes to remain anonymous, “Admin Dev accounts were breached,” resulting [...]
