It’s getting to the point where Anonymous is like the Eye of Sauron: You don’t even want them looking in your general direction. As reports of the internet bogeyman collective’s splintering eke out, people formerly affiliated with Anonymous–who may or may not be responsible for the Playstation Network outage–continue to wreak havoc …
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Leaked: Sony Letter to Publishers About PSN Outage
“Don’t call us, we’ll call you.” That’s the gist of a new, reportedly leaked letter from Sony to its publishing partners about the PlayStation Network outage, handed off by an anonymous source to Industry Gamers. If legit, it suggests Sony’s vague public tale of when and how the outage occurred doesn’t gain any insightful …
Major ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’ Details Leaked
Activision’s Call of Duty series is the biggest gaming franchise in the world. The quasi-realistic military FPS games boasts more concurrent users than Facebook and every installment over the last few years has been met with the kind of rabid anticipation that few other entertainment events can match.
It’s always a big deal when a COD …
Report: PS3 Console Trade-Ins Rise Due to PSN Outage
Game trade-ins may be a games publisher and developer bugaboo, but it looks like they may also be a bellwether of customer discontent when it comes to Sony’s ongoing PlayStation Network outage.
Case in point, games-mag Edge says UK-based retailers are reporting a rise in PS3 console trade-ins for Xbox 360s. Edge’s source also says …
Broken But Beautiful: ‘Brink’ Review
What happens to society when you run out of resources? That’s the question lurking in the background of new post-apocalyptic first-person shooter Brink. On a massive floating city known as the Ark, two extremes of troubling human behavior come to the fore in view of the game’s theme: perpetual conflict. The Security faction wants to lock …
Anonymous No More? Hacktivists Reportedly Fighting Among Themselves
In-fighting. Bickering. Fracture. Those things happen to every fearsome social movement, whether it’s Civil War Confederates or Stalin-era Communists. Now, it’s supposedly happening in the invisible ranks of Anonymous, the hacker collective who may or may not be responsibe for the grand-mal crash of Sony’s Playstation Network.
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PlayStation Network Possibly Back in ‘A Few More Days’
Sony hasn’t updated its PlayStation blog since last Friday, May 6, though we’ve heard bits and pieces through official (as well as unofficial) channels suggesting the PSN as a whole could remain in the fetal position through May 31 (Sony now denies this, though in that sense that the PSN’s up date could be sooner, could be …
PlayStation Network Still Offline: Sony ‘Unaware of the Extent of the Attack’
Sony had believed that its PlayStation Network service would have been restored by now but things have been delayed once again.
A company blog post finds Sony saying, “We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers, and we are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly …
Sony Offers $1 Million of Identity Theft Insurance to Each User
Sony CEO Howard Stringer has taken to his company’s blog for some additional damage control in light of the ongoing PlayStation Network data breach. Aside from the requisite we’re taking this very seriously rhetoric, Stringer’s letter contains a few details pertinent to PSN users.
For starters, U.S. PSN members are all getting a …
Reports Say Another Security Attack Is Planned Against Sony
According to a report by CNET, Sony may have to brace itself for another hack this coming weekend. Yes, another one.
An observer of the IRC channel used by hackers says that the third major attack is planned for Sony’s website, as punishment for the way Sony has handled the PlayStation network breach. The company only alerted …
Security Expert: Sony’s Network Was ‘Unpatched and Had No Firewall Installed’
Sony, Sony, Sony. This ought to add yet another level to the PR nightmare that’s become the PlayStation Network breach.
In a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing yesterday, Gene Spafford, a professor at Purdue University and executive director of the school’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and …
New SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs Trailer. Timely and Patriotic!
Though Sony’s been under lots of heat for continually flubbing their still-not-working PlayStation Network, I have to say: this new trailer for SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs — especially in light of all the SEALS-related newsmaking this week — is pretty compelling.
Watch it down below and note some of the (I’m sure) carefully selected …