Sony has been and is still famous for the PlayStation brand and now PlayStation Mobile allows games that are purchased on the PlayStation Vita to be playable on Android devices under the same PlayStation Network (PSN) account. The reverse is also true: a PS Mobile game purchase on your Android device can also be playable on your PS Vita as long as they are under the same PSN account. Continue reading >>
The YouTube application for the Playstation Vita was released earlier today. We’ll be looking at some of the features of this app in this article.
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Sony announced the beginning of the addition of PSOne tiles to the Playstation Store in their E3 presentation on Tuesday.
However, what they didn’t mention was that rather than allowing Vita owners to access the entire library of PSOne games already available on the Playstation Network immediately, PSOne games will slowly be rolled out on the PSN week by week. Continue reading >>
Three weeks ago, Sony took the Playstation Network down in response to hacker attacks that caused all user accounts to become compromised. After the company took PSN down, they issued a statement saying that the services will be back online within a week. Today, the Sony PSN is still down, and Sony are unsure when it will get back online. In a new blog post, the company’s Senior Director for Corporate Communications, Patrick Seybold, said that “comprehensive system checks and testing are still required”, which doesn’t sound like the PSN is going online anytime soon.
Sony suspended the network services for their Playstation 3 console, the Playstation Network and Qriocity media streaming services in response to a hacker attack on their servers last Wednesday. Sony confirms it was an external intrusion. At first, suspicions arisen that hacker-network Anonymous was to blame. Front-figure George Hotz, who has hacked the PS3 in the past, says that “For once, it wasn’t us”. Hotz says Sony initially blamed Anonymous in order to hide Sony’s internal server problems.
As for now it is uncertain how long the services will be down. Estimates says that the down-time hits Sony with 800,000 EUR (roughly 1.2 million USD) each day in lost revenue. Consumers have expressed fears that their credit card information have been compromised. Sony has yet to address these concerns.
As consoles becomes tied with personal information, they become a lucrative source of informational theft for hackers. The gaming industry has battled piracy in the past to no greater success, but is still naive handling these types of attacks. User-safety has to come first and hopefully, Sony can find the exploit and bring online digital entertainment back to our living rooms once again.
