Tag: psn
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Sony PSN down again tonight for Essential Maintenance
Remember last week when we all rejoiced that the Playststion Network was back up after over a month of “Downtime”… Well be prepared for a little more downtime as Sony has announced that the PSN will undergo essential maintenance today (Tuesday 24th May, from 16.00PM- 00.00PM GMT), according to the Technical Support Moderator for the EN…
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Playstation owners suffer from the heat with “L.A Noire” – New console crisis?
It seems some PS3s can’t handle the heat of the hotly-hyped title “L.A. Noire” – launched this week. The release by Rockstar Games is currently rolling out on consoles including Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, but a number of Sony owners have reported their gaming gadgets shutting down from overheating while solving movie-style murder mysteries and battling…
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Sony deny new Playstation Network attack – “URL exploit fixed”
Sony has spoken out and denied the claims that the Playstation Network was violated once again – this time during the mass password reset by users weeks after the last attack crippled the gaming community for a month. Sony were quick to comment on its Playstation Blog regarding speculation circulating that another attack had taken…
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Sony’s PlayStation Network exploited again?
After Sony had literally just started to turn the PlayStation Network back on, could the network have already been subject to another exploit? Reports say that the password system used for PSN suffers from an exploit which would allow hackers to change your password, simply by using your PSN email and also your date of…
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Sony’s “Welcome Back” program gives you free PSP & PS3 games
PS3 users around the world are no doubt rejoicing at the fact that the PlayStation Network has made its way back online. Now I’m sure you’ll remember Sony mentioning a “Welcome Back” program as an apology for what has happened over the last few weeks. Well, information from the official PlayStation blog suggests that this…
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Sony’s “Welcome Back” program gives you free PSP & PS3 games
PS3 users around the world are no doubt rejoicing at the fact that the PlayStation Network has made its way back online. Now I’m sure you’ll remember Sony mentioning a “Welcome Back” program as an apology for what has happened over the last few weeks. Well, information from the official PlayStation blog suggests that this…
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Amazon Servers Behind PSN Hack?
Reports are circulating the internet that Amazon’s servers were used to take down the Playstation Network. As the PSN comes back online today the postmortem continues, with the finger being pointed at Amazon. Bloomberg quote a source in the know and suggest that the server was rented from Amazon under an assumed name and used…
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Sony PSN Password reset crashes
Sunday 15th of May was a big day for Sony, as after nearly a month of its PlayStation network being down due to an anonymous (not the group!) hack and losing over 100 million of its users personal details, The PSN was finally returned. But Sony’s woes don’t end there, as almost immediately after the network went…
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Sony PlayStation Network relaunch begins
Sony has announced that it will start to re-launch the PlayStation Network today. According to Sony, it will be a phased relaunch that will begin in the US, then Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. It has now been more than three weeks since Sony discovered unauthorised access to its network and personal…
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Modern Warfare 3 information leaked online
Well we didn’t expect to see this one so soon, but games website Kotaku has got possibly the biggest gaming scoop of the year by unleashing a barrage of information on the latest instalment in the super popular Call Of Duty first person shooter series. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the big blockbuster…