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Full PSN Functionality Set To Return May 31st, Online Play Avaliable Earlier

The Playstation Network has been down since April 20th, much to the dismay of PS3 online gamers around the world. Despite claims from Sony that PSN should have been operational [...]

Sony Will Offer Two Free PS3 Games For PSN Breach, 2500 Names And Addresses Released Online

Sony has revealed that over the past few days the PlayStation Network hackers have actually released names and partial addresses of 2,500 members connected to the network. The site was [...]

Sony Developing Two New PS3 Exclusives From God Of War Studio

God of War studio Sony Santa Monica is currently working on two “unannounced” PS3-exclusive titles, it has been revealed. This comes as news after Sound Designer Steve Johnson listed two [...]

21 Year Old Girl Going After Sony — Lawsuit Claiming $1Bn In Damages

Canadian law firm, McPhadden Samac Tuovi LLP has launched their own attack against Sony in relation to the PSN attack, and the saga of missing credit card and personal details. [...]

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Sony Knew About Security Flaws In PSN

Sony allegedly knew about possible security flaws prior to the break down of the entire PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment. Sony chief information officer, Shinji Hasejima, came clean at [...]

Sony Responds With Open Letter To Congress, Hints At Anonymous Involvement

In response to a letter sent to Sony by the US House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, Sony’s Kazuo Hirai sent an open letter detailing Sony’s “principles” [...]

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Firmware Update 3.61 Likely For PSN Might Include Heavily Requested User Features

Most PlayStation owners (that play online) are probably sick of all the negative information such as congressional letters and billion dollar lawsuits, but now there seems to be a small [...]

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Sony Questioned Over PSN Hack

The US Congress has issued a letter to Sony, requesting explanations to some very pertinent yet unanswered questions regarding last week’s hack into the PlayStation Network. In the missive addressed [...]

Sony Promise “To Assist Users In Enrolling In Identity Theft Protection Services” And “Make Good Plan” For MMOs

Sony Online Entertainment has released a press release to UK and EU customers regarding the “illegal intrusions”  (read raping) from hackers that the company has reported. The text, which can [...]

12,700 Credit Card Numbers “May Have Been Stolen”, Says SOE

Sony just can’t catch a break. Following the news that Sony Online Entertainment servers had been taken offline, the company now confirms that they may have “lost” 12,700 users credit [...]

PSN Update — Some Services Available This Week

If you’ve been following recent news over Sony’s PSN network outage and we know you have, you’ll be delighted to know that at least some PSN and Qriocity services will [...]

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Interested In Credit Card Information? You Can Buy The PSN Credit Card List

Hackers responsible for the PSN breach are trying to sell off the stolen credit card numbers which include CC security numbers and expiry dates. There is also speculation that the [...]

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Preview: InFamous 2

Cole McGrath returns with his freak-accident electric powers in InFamous 2. This time around he’s more powerful, more determined and there’s far more going on within the game. Now, we [...]

Sony PlayStation Network Mega Update: What’s Happening, Q&A, Legal Implications

Unless you live in a hole, and even then, by now you’ve heard of Sony’s woes with its PlayStation Network being down for about a week, making it completely unavailable [...]

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Latest UK Top 40 Charts Has Portal 2 In Cake-Winning Position

This was a triumph! I’m making a note here, huge success… Valve’s brand-shiny-new puzzly-based adventure Portal 2 has entered the UK Top 40 in top spot. As if that was [...]

DRM Screws Us Over Once Again, With A Little Help From PSN

The always-on DRM systems that many developers/publishers embed into their games in the war on piracy have yet to curb piracy by any noticeable margins but they have succeeded in [...]

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Gamer’s Guide To The Local PlayStation 3 Community

Our last addition to the Gamer’s Guide is all about the PlayStation and its standing in the South African community. First of all, this is, in case you were hiding [...]

Was Your Credit Card Number On PSN? Sony Doesn’t Know If It Was Stolen

The PlayStation Network is still offline and with no end in sight to this issue concerns are starting to grow. Sony has still not determined if any personal information of [...]

BREAKING: The Two Sony PlayStation And Media Tablets [Trailer Included]

Sony announced their Android 3.0 tablets at a press event in Tokyo earlier today. The first tablet revealed is a 9.4-inch S1 media tablet with a top which seems to [...]

PSN Down For 4 Days — Sony Admits To Being Hacked, Anonymous Claim Innocence

The PlayStation Network has over 69 million registered users and it has been down for four consecutive days. This is no laughing matter, it’s a serious problem and many people [...]

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Industry Experts Share Their Views On “Flopped” PSPgo

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Sony’s egregiously titled UMD-less portable gaming handheld, the PSPgo, is no more. It’s only been out for just over a year and Sony [...]

Farewell PSP Go

The PSP Go may have been a colossal flop as far as handheld consoles go but it’s still good to see the console put out of its misery. Sales were [...]

God Of War 4 — Coming September 2012?

The unofficial PlayStation 3 magazine, PSM3, stated that God of War 3 could release in September of 2012. God of War 4 is said to be in development as a [...]

Sony And Microsoft Are Planning New Consoles For 2014

According to sources in and around the matter, the next Xbox and PlayStation consoles will only be released after 2013, when the current-generation is completely over. The two companies are [...]

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Anonymous Protests At Sony Centres Fail, Epically

Mortal enemy of Sony, Anonymous, recently threatened the company with a mass protest that would involve supporters sitting outside Sony Centres and returning  Sony products. As a result, Sony enlisted [...]

Hotz Gives Left Over Donation Money To The EFF, Is This Finally Over?

George Hotz, in a dying fire of available news, is back. This time in a different light, however. The screenshot attached here is a picture of Hotz donating $10,000 to [...]

Vision Game Engine For Sony NGP

This is a video of the Vision Game Engine for the upcoming Sony NGP. The handheld device is expected to a be a PSP 2 kind of thing, where it [...]

Review: SOCOM 4: Special Forces

SOCOM 4 is yet another largely underwhelming and lacking entry into a swiftly fading franchise. eGamer Rating: Addictive: No, although online co-op manages to be a little while it lasts [...]

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Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One Is A Symphony Of Colour

Here’s a swarm of new screens for the latest adventure in the amazingly fun Ratchet & Clank series – Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One. All 4 One focuses heavily [...]

Sony’s NGP Is Rumoured To Launch Second Friday Of November, In USA

Sony’s NGP — or PSP2 — is said to be on-target for a 2011 launch. Reports have suggested that the device will launch toward the end of this year as [...]

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