17 May

While gamers in the West have the pleasure of perusing their Playstation Network  “Welcome Back” packages of free content, Japanese players will have to wait a little longer. Sony’s native government has put the kibosh on the PSN relaunch until sufficient “preventative measures” have been met. Sony met with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, as detailed […]

13 May

This may just be approaching the precipice of becoming ridiculous. Web sites for Eidos Interactive and the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution were hacked on Wednesday, briefly displaying the call sign “Owned by Chippy1337” that night. The sites were also briefly unreachable on Thursday morning. Recent discoveries of online transcripts between the hackers have revealed […]

10 May

Sony’s original end date for the Playstation Network’s restructuring ended two days ago, but with a revised statement put up on Friday, the company delayed the re-launch until sometime in the future. We now have an updated time frame to that delay, and it is not any time soon. According to Bloomberg, Sony is now […]

05 May

And we were just starting to feel secure. Sony’s online services  have suffered a second attack, a hacking of Sony Online Entertainment seemingly related to the earlier outage of the Playstation Network. The electronics company had to take down the service around Monday morning, and has since issued a press release stating that 24.6 million […]