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Suda51, who is the Japanese developer behind the studio Grasshopper Manufacture, has announced that he plans to release the most violent social game that the market has ever seen, working together with social game network and developer DeNA. Suda51, who goes by the real name of Goichi Suda, has been until recently w... |
27 July 2011
10:22 GMT |
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The recent hacker attack that took the PlayStation Network down was a "great experience," at least in the eyes of Sony Network Entertainment boss Tim Schaaff, who quickly added that the company learned a lot, but doesn't want such a thing to happen again.
Sony was attacked by hackers back in April, act which ... |
15 July 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Sony has extended its special offer for the AllClear ID Plus identity theft protection program, allowing US PlayStation Network users to enroll in the service for a year without any charge, until the end of the month.Sony was severely affected by a hacker attack earlier this year, when it took down the PlayStation Ne... |
11 July 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Seeing as how the summer season is in full effect, Sony has decided to implement a special batch of discounts on its PlayStation Store, under the Summer Sale banner.
Plenty of digital distribution services are hosting massive summer sales this month, with PC ones like Valve's Steam or GameFly's Direct2Dr... |
8 July 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Final Fantasy Type-0 has again been delayed and will now be launched on the Japanese market at some point during the fall, allowing players to explore a new game world which will take up more than 100 hours of their gaming time.
The game director Hajime Tabata has told Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu that the new... |
6 July 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Bargain hunters can still profit from Sony's 'Welcome Back' offer, which has been extended until tomorrow, July 5, so that users who had PlayStation Network accounts before the recent hacker attack will be able to download free games and access unique offers.
Sony fell prey to a hacker attack back i... |
4 July 2011
05:30 GMT |
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The recent hacker attack that affected the whole PlayStation Network has forced Sony to take a more vigilant stance on security, at least according to its European boss, Andrew House.Sony suffered greatly after a hacker attack at the end of April forced it to take down its PlayStation Network online service and rebui... |
22 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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With more and more video game oriented sites attacked and more personal data stolen it seems that even game designers are now aware of the problem and a bit scared about the possible consequences.Speaking to Industry Gamers Cliff Bleszinski, who is one of the more outspoken video game designers, has stated that the P... |
22 June 2011
09:34 GMT |
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Video game publisher Bethesda is the latest victim of an organized hacker attack, having its servers penetrated and announcing that data like user names, e-mail addresses and passwords have been compromised.The company says that it has no financial or credit card information stored on the servers that were breached b... |
14 June 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Since the restoration of the PlayStation Network online service, together with all of its components, including the PlayStation Store or PlayStation Home, Sony reveals that it has seen a massive increase in user activity.As you all know, PlayStation 3 and PSP owners were left without the PSN for quite some time, afte... |
13 June 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Video games giant Sony has conducted its E3 press conference today and the company surprised some commenters by tackling the problem of the PlayStation Network hacking attack head on in an effort to make sure that gamers understand its response and how important security is for the company. Jack Tretton, who is one ... |
7 June 2011
03:24 GMT |
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After getting the PlayStation Store back online, Sony has now officially deployed its Welcome Back offer for PlayStation Network users that were affected by the outage experienced by the service for many weeks after a hacker attack.Sony worked diligently to restore PSN to a functional and more secure state, and only ... |
4 June 2011
02:00 GMT |
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After a lengthy offline period, the PlayStation Store is now fully functional, with Sony confirming that all PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners can now access the digital marketplace.Sony took down the PlayStation Network at the end of April, after a hacker attack, and kept it that way until the middle of ... |
2 June 2011
02:20 GMT |
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The hacker attack on the PlayStation Network was surprising, according to Sony President Sir Howard Stringer, who said that his company didn't expect a great and free service like the PSN to be attacked by evildoers.
Sony was forced to take down its PlayStation Network after a hacker attack last month, in ord... |
1 June 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Sony has just confirmed that it will be bringing back the PlayStation Store this week, after the service, part of the larger PlayStation Network, was taken offline after a serious hacker attack.
Sony saw a full scale attack by various hackers last month, forcing it to take down the PlayStation Network completely i... |
31 May 2011
02:20 GMT |
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Sony announced that the PlayStation Network online service is now operational in various Asian countries, including its native Japan, but only in a limited fashion.
Sony got the PSN up and running after last month's serious hacker attack, and allowed European and North American users access to it at the begin... |
30 May 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The PlayStation Network will be down for maintenance on the night between Tuesday, May 31, and Wednesday, June 1, while Sony is expected to bring back the PlayStation Store part of the online service.Sony brought back the PlayStation Network at the beginning of the month, but the service is still not fully functional... |
30 May 2011
04:05 GMT |
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A hacker breach prompting Sony to take its PlayStation Network (PSN) offline is still making headlines almost a full month into the attack as the network is still not fully operational. As a consequence, developer Logicswarm has now released PSN Status, an iOS application that allows users to check the status of thei... |
26 May 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Sony has just detailed how its special identity theft protection program will work for users of its PlayStation Network, who saw their personal information stolen by hackers after an aggressive attack on the Japanese company.
Sony was affected by a serious hacker attack at the end of April, which forced it to take d... |
26 May 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Sony has announced that the PlayStation Store won't be back until the end of the month, as it still needs to further strengthen its PlayStation Network online service before it gets the store available.
Sony had a lot of problems with its PlayStation Network online service recently, as after a hacker attack fou... |
25 May 2011
02:45 GMT |
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Sony has just deployed a brand new firmware update to all of its PlayStation Portable consoles, taking their software up to version 6.39 and requiring users to change their PlayStation Network password because of the security risk from last month's hacker attack. Sony has had a very difficult period in the last... |
24 May 2011
17:21 GMT |
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UPDATE: Sony confirmed that the planned maintenance is also happening in North America, from about 8am until approximately 5pm Pacific time. Sony has just confirmed, through an announcement for its Irish PlayStation Network users, that the online service is going down for scheduled maintenance later today a... |
24 May 2011
08:45 GMT |
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Sony seems to have become a favorite target for hackers with an Internet service provider that it owns and operates, called So-Net, now targeted by unknown groups, with about 100,00 Yen in virtual currency stolen from some of its customers.
The value of the stole currency is low, about 1,224 in dollars, and just 1... |
23 May 2011
15:01 GMT |
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The PlayStation Network and associated services that have been down since April 20 have been brought back online by Sony over the weekend, but the company still has some way to go before it can regain the trust of gamers, but at least one leading game developer believes that the company should be supported by all the... |
16 May 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Video game publisher Square Enix has confirmed that an unknown group of attackers has managed to penetrate the security of a number of its websites, including the one for the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution, managing to get access to about 25,000 anonymous email addresses and a number of professional resumes for p... |
16 May 2011
13:31 GMT |
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The week that passed us by continues to be dominated by the ongoing problems with the PlayStation Network, but our attention here at Softpedia was focused on the next Call of Duty and on a recent release, The First Templar, for which we have a full review. We also reviewed MotorStorm Apocalypse, the quake delayed di... |
15 May 2011
08:51 GMT |
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After more than three weeks of depriving its customers of the PlayStation Network online service, Sony is beginning to feel the negative impact, as retailers are reporting 200 percent increase in trade-ins for PlayStation 3 consoles as well as games made for the device.
The PlayStation Network has been offline for... |
13 May 2011
18:01 GMT |
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The ongoing outage experienced by the PlayStation Network is affecting third party developers and publishers, with Capcom saying that the offline period is causing losses of "hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars."
Sony was forced to take down its PlayStation Network three weeks ago after a hacker attac... |
11 May 2011
14:21 GMT |
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The PlayStation Network is set to come back online in a few more days, at least according to Sony, which says that it will inform its customers when exactly that happens.
Three weeks ago, the Japanese company was struck by a hacker attack and forced to take down the PlayStation Network online service in order to r... |
11 May 2011
02:45 GMT |
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Sony is working hard on bringing back its PlayStation Network service after a hacker attack, and has now revealed that it may not be back online until the end of the month.
Sony was severely affected by the hacker attack that compromised its PlayStation Network, prompting it to shut down the service and rebuild it... |
10 May 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Sony has just revealed a new way in which it is going to apologize to owners of PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable consoles for the ongoing outage experienced by the PlayStation Network online service.
At the beginning of last week, Sony revealed that it was set to get the PSN back online in around 7 days, but,... |
9 May 2011
02:30 GMT |
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The overall chairman and president of Sony, Howard Stringer, has taken the unprecedented step of coming out with a personal letter of apology to all the PlayStation Network users that have been affected by the recent service shutdown and security breach.In a letter to customers the company leader says, “I know ... |
6 May 2011
11:16 GMT |
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The new and more secure PlayStation Network is entering the final stages of testing, according to Sony, but the company still doesn't know if it's going to respect the deadline it set at the beginning of the week.
Sony has been working hard to get its PlayStation Network service back online, but already ... |
6 May 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Sony has just answered some of the questions asked by the U.S. House of Representatives, who demanded explanations over the recent hacking of both its PlayStation Network servers as well as the Sony Online Entertainment ones at the beginning of the week.Sony, after the recent hacking of its PlayStation Network, which... |
5 May 2011
02:25 GMT |
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Sony has just announced that the PlayStation Network and the Qriocity services will be back online this week, as the Japanese company is finally ready to deploy its upgraded and more secure systems.
As almost all of you know, the PlayStation Network has been offline for the almost two weeks, following a hacker att... |
2 May 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Without a doubt this week's most important issue for gamers, at least PS3 or PSP owners, was the ongoing PlayStation Network outage, which arrived after a group of hackers compromised Sony's online service and might even have stolen the personal data of the 70+ million PSN users.As you can imagine, it'... |
30 April 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Sony has just answered a few more questions about the ongoing offline period experienced by its PlayStation Network online service, and revealed that there would be goodwill gesture shown to users that have been patient throughout the week or so of outage.
Sony's PSN was attacked by a group of hackers last we... |
29 April 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Sony's recent problems with its PlayStation Network and the fact that personal user data from all of the 70+ million users might have fallen into the hands of hackers have attracted the attention of both an U.S. senator as well as an UK data protection group.Sony has been going through one of its blackest period... |
28 April 2011
16:51 GMT |
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In between the massive problems with the PlayStation Network, which is still offline for over a week due to a hacker attack, Sony Online Entertainment revealed that the customer information for all of its MMO players wasn't affected by the attack.
Sony formally admitted yesterday that hackers might have stole... |
28 April 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Sony has just been hit with the first lawsuit over the current PlayStation Network outage, with an Alabama man taking the Japanese company to court because it left personal user data fall into the hands of hackers.
Sony, after taking down the PlayStation Network online service last week without any sort of concret... |
28 April 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Infamous 2 will see its User Generated Content Beta stage extended because of the ongoing offline period experienced by Sony's PlayStation Network.
Infamous 2 kicked off a closed beta stage for its user generated content mode, which started on at the beginning of the month and saw lucky PlayStation 3 owners g... |
28 April 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Sony has just posted a pretty big FAQ guide on the PlayStation Blog, answering many questions addressed by PlayStation Network users who have been left without the online service for over a week now and found out yesterday that their personal information might have been stolen by hackers.
Sony isn't going thr... |
28 April 2011
02:10 GMT |
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A brand new report has appeared on the web concerning the recent PlayStation Network outage, which says that the online service might have been taken down by Sony in order to prevent users that were running customized PlayStation 3 firmware versions which enabled them to circumvent all of the company's security ... |
27 April 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Infamous hacker and activist group Anonymous has issued a formal statement in which it denies any involvement in the recent outage of Sony's PlayStation Network online service.
Sony's PlayStation Network has been offline for a week now, with the company finally admitting earlier today that it was the vic... |
27 April 2011
11:01 GMT |
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After almost a week since its PlayStation Network was taken offline, Sony has now admitted that the online service was the victim of a hacker attack, and that the perpetrators might have stolen personal user data ranging from names and addresses to even credit card information.
Sony took down the PlayStation Netwo... |
27 April 2011
02:20 GMT |
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UPDATE: Sony has officially admitted that the PSN has been hacked and that personal user data, from PSN IDs or passwords to even credit card data has been compromised.Even more bad news for PlayStation Network users, as even after almost six days since the online service went down, Sony still doesn't know w... |
26 April 2011
02:05 GMT |
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UPDATE #3: Sony has just announced that the PlayStation Network will be back online this week, between May 2 and May 6, and that a special Welcome Back program will see users get free advantages like PlayStation Plus memberships.UPDATE #2: Sony has officially admitted that the PSN has been ha... |
22 April 2011
03:20 GMT |
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The Entertainment Software Rating Board, a non-profit independent organization which awards ratings to more than 1,000 video games to help customers with their decisions, has announced that it is implementing a new program which will have the task of rating digitally-distributed console-based video games.
The prog... |
19 April 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Sony has officially announced a new free loyalty program for its fans, called PlayStation Rewards, which will debut with an invitation only beta stage and has an official launch date for the wider public at some point during spring 2011.Apparently rewards will be delivered to those who use the PlayStation Network for... |
28 October 2010
18:11 GMT |
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Capcom is ready to explore the history of the Street Fighter series and revive some of the titles it finds there for launch, in a remade form, on the PlayStation Network and the Xbox Live Arcade. The company has confirmed the Comic Con news that it will be bringing Street Fighter III: Third Strike back to life, altho... |
28 July 2010
02:54 GMT |
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