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Sony's payoff day

So you must have heard by now that Sony released more information about the security breach of PSN. Confirmed, thousands of credit cards' details of European users have been compromised. The hacking "Legion" has them now...

Anyhow, you can read about that in the PSN blog (see PS Blog News on the right).

What is more interesting, Sony also started to release details of "compensation package" (or so-called "Welcome Back" program).

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PSN update: personal information of 75 million users stolen?

As we mentioned already in our previous post, Sony admitted earlier that during the intrusion into Playstation Network personal user information may have been compromised.

Now confirmed in Sony's blog post yesterday that personal details from PSN accounts were exposed to the hackers. That includes names, addresses, READ MORE >>

PSN is undergoing... hacking attack

PSN maint

 

                                                                                                                 

When we first saw the "PSN is undergoing maintenance" frustrating message on our PS3 on April 20th, we actually believed it. 

When Patrick Seybold, Sony's senior director of corporate communications and social media wrote that "it may be a full day or two", it raised our suspicions that something is not right there.

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What do we expect from PlayStation Move on September 19th

PlayStation® Move 

 So long expected motion gaming is coming to Playstation 3 (say hello to Wii) on September 19th.

 What to expect, how is it going to work, how much it is going to cost and what games are there to support it? READ MORE >>

PS3 jailbreak is out in the open-source

PSJailbreak

You might have already heard that in August Australian team created a first jailbreak for PS3 and released a commercial USB dongle PSJailbreak, which allows backing up games to HDD and running them. Also running any unsigned 3-rd party homebrew applications becomes a reality. Sony immediately tried to ban it from selling, but not very successfully. READ MORE >>

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City $29.99 + $10 Video Games credit

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

 

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City includes both
The Lost and Damned, and The Ballad of Gay Tony together on disc and does not require a copy of the original Grand Theft Auto IV to play.

 

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Playstation Online Store is first to deliver streaming of HD movies from all 6 major movie studios

SonyHDSony announced yesterday that "Movies" section of Playstation store has hit a major milestone: it is first of all online streaming providers ready to deliver high-definition movies from all major movie studios, like 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. READ MORE >>

MAG (Massive Action Game) PS3 Final Beta opens for public free testing tomorrow January 4th

MAG

The official MAG Blog announced that the final beta will be available for public testing starting tomorrow, January 4th until January 10th.

The game is now finished and on its way to hit store shelves January 26th (in North America).

In the last beta testing there will be no limitations on any region, access will be open worldwide. No need for beta code anymore READ MORE >>

Investing in gold? Buy yourself a 24-karat plated Playstation 3

24kps3Would you like your PS3 Slim in Gold?

Computer Choppers, specializing in custom plating of gadgets are ready to sell you one now.

You can have it plated with 24-karat gold with two matching controllers, your choice of a plated or anodized PS3 logo, and a one year full coverage warranty.

And all that just for $4999. READ MORE >>

System Software update 3.15 brings "minis" to PS3 from PSP

PSN avatar Announced officially today, Sony's new PS3 system software update 3.15 is going to bring two innovations to the console.

One is ability to play PSP "minis" on Playstation 3 - the ability was rumored about for the last months. READ MORE >>

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