You have to sympathize with Sony. Rebuilding the PlayStation Network ground up with a gun to the head was never in the cards. And like any company suffering a sudden, mammoth, shocking customer data breach, it couldn’t have imagined events playing out quite like this.
That’s what caused this mess in the first place, of course. …
Your worldwide network hacked, your online service in shambles, over 75 million user accounts compromised, US Senators writing letters scolding you for keeping mum longer than you should’ve–if Sony’s had worse weeks, I couldn’t name one.
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I’m not a PlayStation Network member, or much of a gamer at all. But I’m kind of fascinated by Internet outages–and the one currently affecting Sony’s PlayStation Network and Qriocity service is one for the record books. In fact, it may be the worst one of all …
It’s been six days of hell for PS3 owners who’ve been without the use of the console’s PlayStation Network. However, with the latest update on the official Playstation blog, Sony PR rep Patrick Seybold reports that the PSN could be back up inside a week. But don’t celebrate just yet–it appears that things may be worse than first …
Hot on the heels of Lenovo’s leaked Honeycomb tablet, Sony has announced two versions of their own. The S1 and S2 don’t look all of those other tablets rolling off the assembly machine these days – the S2 even has a dual screen.
The S1 follows the traditional slate form factor with a 9.4-inch screen. CrunchGear expects the …
Sony’s Norio Ohga passed away on April 23 at 81 years of age from multiple organ failure. Ohga is perhaps best known for driving the development of the compact disc, which Sony first released back in 1982.
While studying music at a Tokyo university in 1953, Ohga was hired as a consultant by Sony thanks to his “expert knowledge of …
A holiday weekend without Portal 2 or Mortal Kombat matchups, a five-day grand total of uninterrupted void, and yes, Sony’s PlayStation Network remains in the fetal position as we pull into Monday, April 25.
[UPDATE: Sony Admits Personal Info at Risk, Claims PSN Back Up In a Week]
We still know virtually nothing about what …
Sony claims its PlayStation Network was attacked by unidentified outside forces, and said that it preemptively shut the 70 million subscriber service down.
In his third update since the outage began on Wednesday evening, April 20th, Sony senior director of corporate communications and social media Patrick Seybold wrote on the official …
Welcome to Friday, all you PlayStation Network spurned, and yep, it’s still down. No word yet on when it’ll be back, why it happened, if hackers were involved, if Valve’s Steamworks had anything to do with it (Portal 2, which launched on Tuesday, uses it), or what Sony’s doing to fix it.
The company’s offered two laconic …
Poor PSPGo, we hardly knew ye. Via Kotaku comes word that Sony will cease manufacturing of the digital-only variant of their gaming handheld. They’re stopping production of the PSPGo to focus on the upcoming NGP, the touch-centric, dual-stick device they announced earlier this year.
A price cut in February failed to ignite interest in …
Nintendo’s 3DS portable flew off the shelves in late March, moving just shy of 400,000 units during its first week of U.S. sales, reports Nintendo. Couple with Nintendo’s other handhelds, and the company says it saw its best March ever (that’s “in U.S. history” ever) for portable hardware sales.
Factor in dueling DS games …
The lawsuit that called down the wrath of Internet bogeymen Anonymous will go no further, as Sony Computer Entertainment America announced today that they’d reached a settlement with hacker George Hotz.
(More on TIME.com: Playstation vs. Anonymous: Rogue Hacker Collective Targets Sony’s Networks, Execs)
Hotz’s hacking unlocked the …
