I didn’t think video games could shock me anymore. I also thought I had a good sense of just how lurid Rockstar Games’ upcoming detective thriller was going to be. Watching the game get played in a movie theater last night proved me wrong on both counts.
Last night, the makers of Red Dead Redemption and the GTA games broke new ground …
Welcome to day six of Sony’s PlayStation Network debacle, as Sony’s original suggestion of “a full day or two” offline stretches to nearly a week. We’re no closer to an explanation than we were six days ago, though the company’s intimated in a handful of laconic PlayStation blog updates that the trouble began with an …
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 …
Just like that, Sony’s PlayStation Network is down, and hard. Know how I know? Because I just tried to watch an episode of Friday Night Lights over dinner with my wife and couldn’t. My PS3 kept flashing a “you must first sign into the PlayStation Network to sign into Netflix” popup. I tried signing into the PlayStation Network …
Most fighting game franchises–Street Fighter, Tekken and the like–don’t try to convince players that pain’s being dished out in agonizing quantities. Believing that Ryu’s roundhouse kick actually hurts requires a suspension of disbelief on the player’s part.
Not so with the new Mortal Kombat. These brawls clearly hurt.
The …
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 …
If you’re a PS3 owner experiencing slow service on the console’s PlayStation Network–or no service at all–then you could be caught up in a feud between Sony and the internet hacker gang known as Anonymous. (Should Customers Have The Right To “Hack” Their Consoles?)
“Anonymous” has targeted Sony because of its legal action …
The one good thing that comes from being a sequel is the new story avenues that get opened up. In Infamous, gamers got to play the origin story of Cole McGrath, a bike messenger who got electrical powers in an explosion that ruined his hometown of Empire City. So, what you won’t be doing in the Sucker Punch dev studio’s Infamous 2 is …
The iconic green jacket golfers win at the storied annual Masters tournament means one thing: The victor’s name goes down as one of the best in history. Tiger Woods accomplished that feat in 1997, making him the youngest person ever to do it at age 21.
That’s great and all but I still beat him at his own game. Granted, it was only …
Want to backup your PlayStation 3 save games online? Now you can, courtesy of a “cloud” data synchronization option Sony’s about to roll out exclusively for premium PlayStation Plus members. The feature should drop tomorrow with PS3 system update version 3.60.
You’ll need to shell out the annual $50 PlayStation Plus fee for the …
