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New PlayStation 3 Firmware to Be Released Soon

Sony announces the imminent release of new system software for their popular gaming (and not only) console, PlayStation 3. In an official statement issued on Sony's blog related to PlayStation, system software version 4.10 is mentioned, with an expected release date of February 8. So far the new firmware is not...

8 February 2012
09:57 GMT

PlayStation 3 Gets Firmware Version 4.10, Changes Are Cosmetic Only

Video game hardware maker and publisher Sony has announced the launch of the 4.10 firmware version for the PlayStation 3 home gaming console and has offered some information on the content of the new update. The official announcement from Sony states that the main change introduced is the renaming of the classic Pla...

8 February 2012
04:31 GMT

The PlayStation Network Changes Its Name into the Sony Entertainment Network

Sony has just confirmed that a major change, at least in name, will be made on February 8, when its PlayStation Network is going to be turned into the Sony Entertainment Network. Sony is trying to move past its electronics manufacturer image by offering more entertainment options to its customers. Seeing as how it...

6 February 2012
15:31 GMT

PSN Users Hit with 80023102 Error, Can’t Re-Download Purchased Games

It seems that the recent maintenance suffered by the PlayStation Network has left the online service with quite a big problem, at least in the Europe, Middle East and Australasia territories, as users can no longer re-download games they’ve already bought. Sony took down its PlayStation Network last week for s...

6 February 2012
05:27 GMT

PlayStation Plus Subscribers Get Free Far Cry 2 and Other Goodies in February

Sony has just unveiled the content release schedule for PlayStation Plus subscribers from North America, showcasing what they’ll receive throughout the month of February, including things like free games, major discounts and exclusive access to demos. The last few months have been really good to PlayStation Pl...

2 February 2012
14:31 GMT

Sony Extends PlayStation Network Maintenance to United States

Video game publisher and hardware developer Sony has announced that a planned maintenance session which was supposed to only hit the European countries today has now been extended to also affect users who log in from the Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zeeland and the United States. It is not clear whether users in Ca...

2 February 2012
04:31 GMT

Digital PlayStation Vita Games Will Be Cheaper Than Retail Versions

Sony has confirmed that retail games for the PlayStation Vita will be released onto the PlayStation Network as digital editions with a lower price. The PlayStation Vita is getting ready for its launch at the end of the month, alongside a hefty variety of games made by Sony and other third-party developers. Now, Son...

1 February 2012
18:31 GMT

Sony Announces PlayStation Network Will Be Down on Thursday

Video game hardware developer and video game publisher Sony has announced that the PlayStation Network service will be taken down for scheduled maintenance during Thursday, the second day of February. The announcement about the downtime was made on the European forums of Sony, which might mean that it will only affe...

31 January 2012
07:30 GMT

Nintendo Network Will Compete with PSN and Xbox Live

Video game publisher and hardware developer Nintendo has long been accused of being unable to understand the Internet, and the Wii has suffered because it lacked a service that could directly compete with the PlayStation Network from Sony and the Xbox Live service from Microsoft. But now Nintendo is ready to launch ...

30 January 2012
02:55 GMT

PlayStation Network Goes Offline Today, January 19, for Scheduled Maintenance

Sony has just revealed that it will be taking down its PlayStation Network online service today, January 19, from 8am until 9pm, PST. Sony is still trying to win back the trust of its customers after the shameful hacker attack of last year, which saw its PSN go offline for almost a whole month, during which owners o...

19 January 2012
04:33 GMT

PlayStation Store Update Brings Team Ico HD Collection, New Games, and DLC

Sony has made a brand new update to its North American PlayStation Store, this time giving PS3 owners access to new downloadable games, not to mention a variety of DLC and even some great price cuts, as part of the 12 for ’12 promotion. First up, in terms of new games, PS3 users can enjoy digital versions of t...

18 January 2012
04:54 GMT

Sony Anti-Hacker Stance benefits Gamers, Says Executive

Sony is convinced that its tough stance on hackers and pirates is in the best interest of its player base and one leading executive from the company has expressed bewilderment at the hostility coming from some players who use the Sony gaming devices.Speaking to CVG Andrew House, who is the leader of the European divi...

18 January 2012
04:18 GMT

Great PSN Games Get Big Discounts as Part of Sony’s 12 for '12 Promotion

Sony has just kicked off a massive new promotion on its PlayStation Network, called 12 for ’12, which sees hefty price cuts made to some high quality downloadable games that were released last year on the online service. Sony kicked off 2011 with an impressive promotion called 11 for ’11 and now wants to...

17 January 2012
04:13 GMT

PlayStation Store Europe Gets January Sales Event

Sony has just confirmed that users of its European PlayStation Store can take advantage of a series of sales that will span three weeks and include all sorts of great content, from full games to DLC and other such things. Sony is on a roll with its sales events, as the Japanese company has been making big price cuts...

12 January 2012
04:48 GMT

Killzone 1 Available as Digital Download for PS3 This Month

The original Killzone title, which has kicked off the successful first person shooter on the PlayStation 2, is now getting ready for a re-release on the current PlayStation 3 at the end of the month. The Killzone series was supposed to be Sony’s answer to Microsoft’s extremely successful Halo franchise, ...

12 January 2012
04:00 GMT

PlayStation Store Update Brings New Games and Demos, Lots of Price Cuts

Sony has made its weekly update to the North American PlayStation Store, this time adding a variety of downloadable titles and demos, not to mention plenty of DLC and a huge variety of price cuts on games and DLC from Electronic Arts. First up, PlayStation 3 owners can download quite a lot of new games, ranging from...

11 January 2012
04:42 GMT

SEGA Brings House of the Dead 3 and 4 to the PSN Starting with February

Video game publisher SEGA has announced that it plans to re-launch two of its biggest games ever, House of the Dead 3 and 4, exclusively on the PlayStation Network service from Sony in the coming months.Both titles have been updated with support for High Definition graphics and allow the gamer to use the Move motion ...

6 January 2012
03:54 GMT

PlayStation Store Update Brings Splinter Cell HD, Oddworld HD, and All Zombies Must Die

While Sony treated its North American PlayStation Network users with a huge amount of deals, new content and special discounts last week, right before Christmas, the week before the New Year is looking pretty lackluster, even if there are plenty of full-pledged games available for download. PlayStation 3 owners have...

28 December 2011
04:18 GMT

PlayStation Store Update Brings Trine 2 and Plenty of Major Discounts

Sony has once again updated its North American PlayStation Store, this time adding quite a lot of fresh content while slashing the prices on games and DLC that already appeared on the online marketplace.First up, PS3 owners can enjoy the stunning Trine 2, as well as full game downloads that include L.A. Noire, Just C...

22 December 2011
04:45 GMT

Here Are the Best Selling Indie Games on the PlayStation Network

The PlayStation Network saw the release of a large variety of independent games in 2011 so, in order to help people sort them out, Sony has made a few lists of the best selling indie titles on the online network, including those that were published by the studios themselves or with the help of the Japanese company.So...

15 December 2011
03:13 GMT

PlayStation Store Update Brings Final Fantasy VI, Dragon Age 2, Lots of DLC

Sony has once again updated the North American PlayStation Store with plenty of new content, including full games, like Dragon Age 2 or NFS: Hot Pursuit, but also lots of other content, including new DLC as well as discounts for existing add-ons.First up, PlayStation 3 owners can enjoy three new downloadable games, a...

7 December 2011
18:31 GMT

Each Vita Has Just One PlayStation Network ID

Sony has announced that each PlayStation Vita sold will only allow the registration of one PlayStation Network ID, limiting the ability of gamers to take advantage of the fact that the upcoming handheld is not region locked.Presumably the measure is a way of making sure that gamers do not massively import both consol...

5 December 2011
10:39 GMT

PlayStation Store Update Brings the Sly Collection, de Blob 2, New DLC

Sony has once again updated the North American PlayStation Store with some new content, allowing PlayStation Network users to get quite a lot of full digital games, as well as plenty of downloadable content.First up, PlayStation 3 owners can enjoy many full game downloads, include The Sly Collection, either as a bund...

30 November 2011
04:26 GMT

Rumor Mill: New Version of PlayStation Network Is in Beta Stage

An image has been posted on the Internet which is said to show the new look of the PlayStation Network service from Sony, which at the moment is rumored to be in closed beta stage and will be introduced for all users at the beginning of 2012.One of the beta testers has posted a screengrab of the new PSN interface, al...

29 November 2011
04:24 GMT

Sly Cooper HD Collection Arrives On PSN Next Week

After confirming at the beginning of the month that the Sly Cooper Collection will arrive as a digital download on the PlayStation Network, Sony has now revealed that PSN users will finally be able to get it next week.The Sly Cooper HD Collection appeared last year for the PlayStation 3, packing together the first th...

25 November 2011
03:45 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Attracted Millions of Players to PSN

Sony says that the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the first person shooter from Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard, has attracted millions of players to the PlayStation Network, the service which powers multiplayer gaming on the PlayStation 3 home console.Jack Tretton, who is both the president and the ...

18 November 2011
03:57 GMT

Sony Launches New Social Networks Aimed at PlayStation Gamers

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has launched a new social network, called Play Community, which is aimed specifically at those who play titles created for the PlayStation family of devices, either in home console or handheld form.Users in Japan are able to use their PlayStation Network ID in order to sign in and th...

17 November 2011
22:11 GMT

Massive PlayStation Network Global Maintenance Starts Today

Sony has announced that its PlayStation Network online service will be entering a lengthy scheduled maintenance period later today all around the world, so some features or online multiplayer might not be available.Ever since the PlayStation Network was hacked, Sony has increased the scheduled maintenance periods for...

17 November 2011
04:36 GMT

Sly Cooper HD Collection Coming to PSN This Month

Sony has confirmed that it will be releasing a digital edition of its recent Sly Cooper HD Collection on its PlayStation Network online service for the PlayStation 3, both as a bundle, with all the three games, as well as standalone titles. Sony has released quite a lot of its classic PlayStation 2-era titles in the...

17 November 2011
02:46 GMT

PS3 and PSP Owners Can Now Play PSN Games on Just Two Systems

Sony has confirmed that owners of its PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable systems will be able to play the games they've downloaded from the PlayStation Network on just two systems.Sony's PlayStation Network online service has seen quite a big surge in activity ever since its outage earlier this year, wit...

7 November 2011
15:41 GMT

'Winter of RPGs' Promotion Brings Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy V and VI to PSN

Square Enix, after releasing the critically acclaimed Chrono Trigger as well as a variety of older Final Fantasy titles, has revealed that a special campaign, called the Winter of RPGs" will run throughout November and December on the PlayStation Network, bringing three great games to PlayStation 3 owners.Fans have b...

7 November 2011
03:15 GMT

PlayStation Network Down for Maintenance on Thursday Evening

Video game company Sony has announced that the European section of its PlayStation Network service will be down between 3 PM GMT and 8 PM GMT on Thursday, because some elements of the service need maintenance work.The company says that some services might be offline even longer because of testing that needs to be don...

2 November 2011
09:46 GMT

PlayStation Network Hacking 'Awoke Dormant Customers', Sony Says

Sony has revealed that the hacker attack suffered by the PlayStation Network earlier this year actually benefited the company as it served to wake up dormant customers and get them more connected to the online service as a whole.Sony was faced with a serious problem back in April, when hackers attacked the PlayStatio...

25 October 2011
15:51 GMT

New PSN Attacks Not Linked to April Hacks

The Sony maintained PlayStation Network has been yet again hit by a hacker attack which compromised no less than 93,000 accounts, although the company says that no credit card information has been compromised in the new hack attempt.Speaking to Gamespot John Smedley, who is the president of Sony Online Entertainment,...

13 October 2011
04:22 GMT

Sony Hit by New PlayStation Network Hack Attack, 93,000 Accounts Compromised

Video game hardware maker and publisher Sony has announced that the PlayStation Network service has been hacked by an unknown assailant, with about 93,000 accounts compromised, and has urged users to change their log-in details in order to make sure that they are not affected in any way. Phillip Reitinger, who is ...

12 October 2011
02:51 GMT

PlayStation Plus October Offers Revealed by Sony in North America

Sony has published a full list of content that's going to be made available for PlayStation Plus subscribers, ranging from free games, to full game trials, special discounts and many other great deals.PlayStation Plus subscribers are being treated with quite a lot of great content and offers by Sony, gaining acc...

5 October 2011
03:20 GMT

Sony Announced New PSN Promotion for October

Video game publisher Sony has announced a new video game promotion linked to its PlayStation Network service, which will mean that exclusive titles are being launched during every week of October.The new promotion is called “Only On PlayStation Network” and is designed to attract more users to the service...

4 October 2011
15:01 GMT

Sony's New Terms of Service Prevents Users from Suing the Corporation

Sony's new Terms of Service user agreement, which PlayStation Network users need to sign to access the online service, has seen a pretty big change made, which now prevents users from suing the Japanese company.Sony's had some pretty major legal trouble after its PlayStation Network online service was hacke...

16 September 2011
16:51 GMT

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Multiplayer Beta Opens Today for All PSN Users

Ubisoft and Sony have confirmed that the recently released Assassin’s Creed: Revelations multiplayer beta will be opened later today for all users of the PlayStation Network online service, after being exclusive to PlayStation Plus members.Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is set to appear later this year and...

8 September 2011
05:32 GMT

Sony Surprised with PSN Activity After Hacking Outage

Sony got its PlayStation Network back online earlier this year after a major hacker attack and, since then, it seems that activity on the service has reached massive records, surprising even the most optimistic of expectations, according to the company.Sony went through a very difficult time back in April, when a hac...

8 September 2011
03:49 GMT

Sony Says PSN Is Doing Better than Before April Hacker Attacks

Video game publisher Sony has said that its much-troubled PlayStation Network service is at the moment performing better than it was before the hacker attacks that forced the company to take it down in late April of this year. Speaking at the IFA consumer electronics show in Germany, Howard Stringer, who is the ch...

2 September 2011
08:57 GMT

Driver: San Francisco Gets Full PSN Digital Release Soon

Ubisoft Reflections, the studio behind the upcoming Driver: San Francisco racing game has announced that the title won't be available just on retail DVDs or Blu-ray, but also as a digital release that will soon appear on the PlayStation Network online service. Ubisoft is set to publish Driver: San Francisco o...

23 August 2011
04:35 GMT

PlayStation Network Down for Maintenance Today

Sony has confirmed that its PlayStation Network online service will be down for maintenance later today, both in North America and Europe, so many features, like password reset or PlayStation Store access, won't be available.Sony was severely affected by hackers earlier this year, forcing it to take down and reb...

11 August 2011
04:40 GMT

PlayStation Store Update: THQ Discounts, New DLC, Lots of Demos

The PlayStation Store has been updated by Sony with lots of great deals, especially for THQ content for all sorts of games, including the Red Faction ones or Saints Row 2, as well some new downloadable titles.PlayStation 3 owners can enjoy a few new titles for their console, including Deadliest Warrior: Legends, as w...

27 July 2011
14:21 GMT

Sony Opens Up PlayStation Store in Brazil

Sony has announced that Brazil will be the second country in Latin America with an official PlayStation Store, after Mexico, as the Japanese company finally extended support for the online service to the South American country. Sony has been bringing its PlayStation Network and Store to many countries in order to ...

26 July 2011
14:21 GMT

Sony Says Recent Indie Push Is All About Imagination

Sony has recently said that they are committing to spending 20 million dollars in the coming three years in order to bring more exclusive indie titles on the PlayStation Network and one of the executives working with the service says that the entire program is an effort to promote imagination in gaming. Brandon St...

25 July 2011
17:51 GMT

PlayStation Store Update: Limbo, Final Fantasy and Lots of Sales

Sony has updated its PlayStation Store online service with lots of new content, including plenty of downloadable titles, like the eagerly anticipated Limbo, new downloadable content, like Old World Blues for Fallout: New Vegas, and a wide array of discounts.First up, PlayStation 3 owners can enjoy the excellent Limbo...

20 July 2011
12:31 GMT

PSN Hacking Was a Great Experience, Sony Executive Says

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

PlayStation Store Update: Catherine Demo, L.A. Noire DLC and Summer Sales

This is a very special week for PlayStation Network users, as Sony has updated the online service with plenty of new things, from a demo for the upcoming Catherine adventure title, to a new downloadable case for L.A. Noire and, of course, the Summer Sale promotion, which was announced last week.First up, PlayStation ...

13 July 2011
13:21 GMT

Sony Extends Identity Theft Protection Offer for American PSN Users

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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