Archive For PSN Tag

PS3 trade-ins increase as PSN down time continues

PS3 trade-ins increase as PSN down time continues

Fed up with the continued PlayStation Network downtime, PS3 owners are increasingly opting to trade in their consoles for cash or Xbox 360s. This is according to a number of anoynymous retailer... Read More

Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection announced

Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection announced

Warner Bros. has just announced the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for Xbox Live Arcade, the PSN and PC. The arcade trilogy will bundle Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2 and Ultimate Mortal Komba... Read More

The Playstation Network and Issues of Trust

The Playstation Network and Issues of Trust

Without wishing to fall back on stereotypes, gamers are usually a very loyal demographic. Each and every year the biggest franchises in gaming get new instalments, and hungry fans line up eagerly to ... Read More

New From Dust dev diary

New From Dust dev diary

[HTML1] Ubisoft have launched a video for industry legend Eric Chahi's upcoming DLC game From Dust. It focuses on the game's art direction, and will get you quite excited for the game's upcoming... Read More

Insomniac tweet hints that PSN would be back before next week

Insomniac tweet hints that PSN would be back before next week

Insomniac Community James Stevenson has tweeted that he's preparing a blog post to be posted on the PS Blog next week, which suggests that PSN should be online before the end of this week or at t... Read More

A Gift To DC Universe Players For The PSN Downtime

A Gift To DC Universe Players For The PSN Downtime

Everyone will receive a mask for one of their female or male characters. Sony Online Entertainment will be compensating DC Universe Online players a free month  for their subscription as well as... Read More

Sony looking for Senior Application Security Analyst

Sony looking for Senior Application Security Analyst

In the wake of the Playstation Network security breach, Sony has realized that their current security team isn't competent enough and are therefore looking for a new security analyst to ensure tha... Read More

Outland Review

Outland Review

The latest offering from Ubisoft and Housemarque, the guys behind Super Stardust HD, is a retro-style 2D platformer with a twist. At first sight, it looks like all those other side-scrolling games fro... Read More

Playstation Network returns this week

Playstation Network returns this week

Sony Computer Entertainment has confirmed it will begin a "phased restoration by region" of the PlayStation Network this week, starting with gaming, music and video services. Following the rec... Read More

This is how the PSN was ‘actually’ hacked

This is how the PSN was ‘actually’ hacked

There were thousands of theories as to why the PSN was hacked and every media outlet came up with their own. But when Sony called for a press conference yesterday they published a pretty colorful info... Read More

Video Game Releases this week: Mount your horses and go for a dangerous hunt

Video Game Releases this week: Mount your horses and go for a dangerous hunt

Looks like this will be a mix bag for gamers with some little known but exciting games scheduled for release this week. We have covered maximum number of platform releases including PS3, Xbox 360,... Read More

PSN Back Up This Week, Users Get A Month Of Playstation Plus Free

PSN Back Up This Week, Users Get A Month Of Playstation Plus Free

The Playstation Network will be back up this week finally after a long time of being down, but no solid date was announced, which is most likely because the network will be put back up by regions.... Read More

Portal 2 Free DLC Announced – Singleplayer & Multiplayer

Portal 2 Free DLC Announced – Singleplayer & Multiplayer

The first batch of DLC has just been announced for Portal 2 which will consist of Singleplayer and Multiplayer.  The DLC will include new test chambers, leaderboards, different challenge modes fo... Read More

Australia’s Privacy Commissioner Investigating Credit Card Fraud As Man Loses $2000

Australia’s Privacy Commissioner Investigating Credit Card Fraud As Man Loses $2000

This one's just in. With the PSN hack becoming a worldwide dilemma, a South Australian by the name of Rory Spreckley apparently lost $2000. Abc reports the man as saying: "I logged into my ... Read More

PSN: Credit Card Companies Don’t See Any Fraudulent Activity Yet

PSN: Credit Card Companies Don’t See Any Fraudulent Activity Yet

Its a well known fact by now that personal information of 77 million PSN users has been compromised. These include: - Name - Address (city, state, zip) - Country - Email Address - Birthdate... Read More

PSN: Security expert feels unawareness the cause of security breach

PSN: Security expert feels unawareness the cause of security breach

Often many big corporates and organization have extreme security for their data. And Sony's case was no different. When you have almost 70 million accounts at stake the security should have been t... Read More

Anonymous: PSN Attack Is “A Crime To Make Money”

Anonymous: PSN Attack Is “A Crime To Make Money”

With the PSN hack becoming more or less a mainstream issue with over 70 million accounts/users affected, it was obvious that many people would have thought that the Anonymous are behind this attac... Read More

Latest ‘Call of the Dead’ Map Trailer For Call of Duty: Black Ops Featuring The All Star Cast

Latest ‘Call of the Dead’ Map Trailer For Call of Duty: Black Ops Featuring The All Star Cast

Here is the latest trailer for the new Zombie map included in the latest Call of Duty: Black Ops Map Pack 'Escalation'.  The Zombie Map is called 'Call of the Dead' and features an all star cast. ... Read More

PSN Network Issues All For Free, Xbox Live, No Issues At $60 A Year and Hilter Just Found Out

PSN Network Issues All For Free, Xbox Live, No Issues At $60 A Year and Hilter Just Found Out

Now first off I AM NOT STARTING A CONSOLE WAR HERE.  Sony has also chosen to take down the Playstation Network because of people personal information being compromised, so do keep in mind that the ha... Read More

BBC Analyzes PSN Outage Issues

BBC Analyzes PSN Outage Issues

Well this is getting bigger and bigger, so much so that BBC had bought in their Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan Jones to analyze and comment on the PSN outage. We have the full video for you. Che... Read More