/sigh at the article referring to 'hackers' that have stolen data.
Tut tut tut, once again PLAYSTATION owners suffer at Sony`s failures
I on the otherhand being a 360 owner have no problems at all and all my games are excellent, no thrown together crap just to make a quick buck and no blocky graphics!
Do your rip playstation worshippers he he he!
Tut tut tut, once again PLAYSTATION owners suffer at Sony`s failures
I on the otherhand being a 360 owner have no problems at all and all my games are excellent, no thrown together crap just to make a quick buck and no blocky graphics!
Do your rip playstation worshippers he he he!
in the voice of Harry Hill (Biggest fanboy of the week)
People expect it from MS, not from Sony
I <3 my Xbox (well I mean my 4th xbox)
To be fair i've had both, not matter what anyone says X box is shite, like Wheels i had 4 that all RROD because of cack soldering and dubious heatsinks, swapped to ps3 a few years back and this is the first problem I've had and to be fair its not hardware related its software. That and i couldn't afford a ps3 when they first came out (£500) so had to opt for MS
Downside with X box for me is the spaccy shaped controllers and rip off sony analogue stick and the fact you have to pay for live, the wireless dongle on top of your inital broadbanb subscription, its like anything microsoft money money money. I'm not a ps3 die hard and have probably used it twice this year.
I suppose its a case of each to their own
I prefer to use a Dreamcast; though the DreamArena online service no longer operates, Sonic and Crazy Taxi are just as much fun offline lol. No such hardware or network problems lmao.
Having said that, I have only played it a few times since I bought another DC back in February, I just grew out of gaming about 10 years ago (hence my fondness of the DC and PSX lol).
I had Crazy taxi was brilliant, DC was also a hackers favorite because of the basic algorithm coding and the hardware was good at the time.
Many hours lost playing Sonic & Chu Chu rocket, crap looking game but more addictive than crack
Matt,
House of the dead and Bass fishing with the rod where also both immense and that shenmui one was epic in its day
Yerrrrr! You know the score!! Can't forget Soul Calibre and MSR either!!
I had a dream cast and it only lasted five minutes. A load of rubbish.
I had a dream cast and it only lasted five minutes. A load of rubbish.
Should have taken it back and got a new one under warranty then lmao.
I wasnt actually a fan when they first came out, but when I got one, I converted (I was always a SNES, then PSX fan, and was too busy eagerly awaiting the PS2 with its fabled "emotion engine" to take any notice of the DC lol).
I've had bad luck when it comes to gaming Ive had a 3DO, atari jaguar, sega saturn, I did like the nes with rob the robot lol
I've had bad luck when it comes to gaming Ive had a 3DO, atari jaguar, sega saturn, I did like the nes with rob the robot lol
Likewise mate had them all including the 3DO, Super mario and duck hunt on Nes where my favs, Super Street Fighter on SNES
Did you have the Panasonic or Goldstar 3DO, Road Rash in 3D was immense
Matt likewise mate MGS was quality like discovering Tekken on PSONE
I had a dream cast and it only lasted five minutes. A load of rubbish.
Shame that mate, homebrew capabilities where what sold it to me, still have the old utopia bootup disks
Soul Calibre was spot on ended up getting ported to PS but was a bit shite on that not sure why, didn't have the same SEGA feel to it
I still got a PSX, with Tekken 2 and RRT4... both games kept me hooked for hours when I was a kid, but RRT4, that was just immense, and the graphics were awsome for the day; one of the finest games on the PSX imho, both graphically and addiction-wise!
Quite like MGS and Syphon Filter was ace too!
Ahhh, they were the days lol.
it was the Panasonic one. I took my megadrive and 57 games in to EB that paid for my ps1, the N64 pissed me off as I got it the day it come out a week late it was down £100 I used to go to bits n bites in liverpool or to the chipshop also in liverpool. sorry if I spelt bites wrong.
No worries mate, i had the goldstar one uncle had the panasonic one with the original need for speed lol. EB a blast from the past that I didn't get an N64 for a while but Goldeneye sold it for me, i've always shopped in the pryamids but inherited a master system & megadrive with loads of games of my uncle, as a kid i used to peak of terminator versus robo cop mainly because it was an 18 and i was about 10 at the time lol
If you're booting custom firmware for the PS3 you can load a lot of those games via emulators. There's emulators for those consoles on the PC as well I think.
Email sony sent me
Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer,
We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorised intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:
1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;
2) Engaged an outside, recognised security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and
3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.
We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.
Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorised person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity passwords and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, to be on the safe side we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may also have been obtained.
For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security, tax identification or similar number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.
To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant to review your account statements and to monitor your credit or similar types of reports.
We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information. Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is our utmost priority. Please check
www.eu.playstation.com/psnoutage should you have any additional questions.
Sincerely,
Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment Teams
Sony Network Entertainment Europe Limited (formerly known as PlayStation Network Europe Limited) is a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited the data controller for PlayStation Network/Qriocity personal data.
Need for speed getting chased by the cops on the panasonic 3DO on a big 37" tv (lol) omg, brings back memories, I loved that game!!!
still using an Amiga CD32 since it came out back in 1993, my Dreamcast finally bit the dust a month back and i couldn't revive it, so i one uped myself and imported a Sealed Japanese Dreamcast instead, Also Got A Japanese Sega Saturn in White recently armed with a region bypass cartridge. the next bit for me is that i might as well finish the set and Import the Japanese Mega Drive & Master System.
If Anyone grew up with gaming with a Phillips CD-i...God help you.
Im surprised that once this happens to Sony, the entire world comes crashing down. Lets not forget,
1. People everyday get their personal information stolen on Windows Machines
2. The iPad was breached stealing confidential information from its customers.
3. Google got hacked by China stealing users confidential data and e-mails
4. Xbox Live was down for a full week in 2008
5. Google Android has malware in its marketplace which steals user information
6. People lose their personal information on Facebook everyday.. 24/7.
In my personal opinion, Sony just joined the fray. The other companies should welcome them.
Its funny how once a company sues a hacker and wins for protecting its content, people get mad and want to crush them
2. The iPad was breached stealing confidential information from its customers.
Its funny how once a company sues a hacker and wins for protecting its content, people get mad and want to crush them
To be fair the iPad crack was a little bit different from the rest, it was poorly configured http servers on AT&T's side. AT&T wasn't actually broken into, those guys at goatse just wrote a script to hammer the server with ID requests. Plus the only user info stolen was email addresses.
As far as Geohot and fail0verflow who leaked the metldr keys to the PS3 (which lead to geohot leaking the root key which is why he was sued), speaking as a PS3 owner that used the OtherOS system and does use custom firmware, he should have fought Sony instead of dealing with them. Which is precisely what he told everyone he was going to do and which is why I - along with thousands of others - donated to his legal defense costs. I don't think it's really fair to say Sony sued him to protect their content, they sued him to prevent an outcry from people who had something stolen from them under the guise of preventing piracy.
Need for speed getting chased by the cops on the panasonic 3DO on a big 37" tv (lol) omg, brings back memories, I loved that game!!!
Defo Ste, playability of that is still hard to beat and its been replicated many times since, timeless imo
Good article from thinq about Geohot denying he had anything to do with the psn breach:
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/4/28/geohot-denies-involvement-psn-hack-attack/
sony say may the 4th could be the day psn is put back on.
got this email today
"Dear PSN users. As you may already know we have started to bring our services up for the south and west of Asia and can confirm we finally have dates available to bring the system back online world wide:
Europe - Wednesday May 4th (22.00)
USA - Thursday May 5th (08.00)
AUS - Thursday May 5th (14.00)
These dates have been advised by Specialists to get the network online and running smoothly
zippy what source is this from?
SONY STOP SAYING THAT PSN WILL BE UP TODAY AND TUESDAY AND JUST TELL US WHEN IS THE NETWORK RESUMING FFS !!!!!!!!
Lol, Sony saying in this article that
Anonymous was indirectly responsible for the data leak.Sucks that innocent anons will end up getting the blame for Sony's incompetence. Sony's troll level is set to maximum
Still not online, although RDR was somehow able to pull a 22mb update file from a server
i hope anonymous gets caught and locked up who is it im anxious to know
its absolutely ridiculous if its not on by monday im going xbox
i hope anonymous gets caught and locked up who is it im anxious to know
so you think its right to hack a huge organisation and steal people's credit card info ?
Anonymous didn't 'hack' Sony's servers, they just DDoS'd them for a while. Big difference.
plus taking the credit card info, in one of their videos on youtube they said they were just trying to attack sony and not the psn users which is bs
That's because they were only attacking sony. Anons weren't responsible for stealing anything - they weren't even attacking the psn network. They were just DDoSing Sony web servers.
well im definitely not liking them and their gay masks and whats with the file they put on one of sony's servers then written on it we are legion those hackers need to get a life
Just a calling card: We are legion as in there's a lot of them out there. Course there's no way to get an accurate count. Amusing as well because pretty much anyone could consider themselves part of Anonymous and you wouldn't know unless they told you.
Please see below for a letter from Howard Stringer:
Dear Friends,
I know this has been a frustrating time for all of you.
Let me assure you that the resources of this company have been focused on investigating the entire nature and impact of the cyber-attack we’ve all experienced and on fixing it. We are absolutely dedicated to restoring full and safe service as soon as possible and rewarding you for your patience. We will settle for nothing less.
To date, there is no confirmed evidence any credit card or personal information has been misused, and we continue to monitor the situation closely. We are also moving ahead with plans to help protect our customers from identity theft around the world. A program for U.S. PlayStation Network and Qriocity customers that includes a $1 million identity theft insurance policy per user was launched earlier today and announcements for other regions will be coming soon.
As we have announced, we will be offering a “Welcome Back” package to our customers once our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are up and running. This will include, among other benefits, a month of free PlayStation Plus membership for all PSN customers, as well as an extension of subscriptions for PlayStation Plus and Music Unlimited customers to make up for time lost.
As a company we — and I — apologize for the inconvenience and concern caused by this attack. Under the leadership of Kazuo Hirai, we have teams working around the clock and around the world to restore your access to those services as quickly, and as safely, as possible.
I know some believe we should have notified our customers earlier than we did. It’s a fair question. As soon as we discovered the potential scope of the intrusion, we shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and hired some of the best technical experts in the field to determine what happened. I wish we could have gotten the answers we needed sooner, but forensic analysis is a complex, time-consuming process. Hackers, after all, do their best to cover their tracks, and it took some time for our experts to find those tracks and begin to identify what personal information had — or had not — been taken.
As a result of what we discovered we notified you of the breach. Our investigation is ongoing, and we are upgrading our security so that if attacks like this happen again, our defenses will be even stronger.
In the last few months, Sony has faced a terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan. But now we are facing a very man-made event – a criminal attack on us — and on you — and we are working with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies around the world to apprehend those responsible.
In the coming days, we will restore service to the networks and welcome you back to the fun. I wanted to personally reach out and let you know that we are committed to serving you to the very best of our ability, protecting your information better than ever, and getting you back to what you signed up for – all the games and great entertainment experiences that you expect from Sony.
With best regards,
Howard Stringer
A month of free PlayStation Plus what a waste of time, as PlayStation plus is a rental program so after the 30days you can't play them games again unless you sign up to ps+ so you get streets of rage 2 and can only play for 30day after that time it is wiped off your ps3.
I know psn is free and sony don't have to give us anything.
I'm already on ps+ so will be getting sod all as I got the 15 months for the prices of 12.
I think all ps+ people should get something more, say £20 psn card?
They definatly need to offer more
21,12,2012 no not the day the world ends it's the day psn comes back on
sony said PSN may be down until 31st May
soooo p***ed off now, the thing that getting me is why can't sony keep us more upto date?
Yea i still cant believe that the last statement they wrote on the 7th on the eu blog was basically telling us "we thought we were good with deadlines but were not so wait some more" complete joke!
Looks like some of the PSN services are coming back online. They are doing it region by region according to a fb post so could still be days to go yet.
Looks like some of the PSN services are coming back online. They are doing it region by region according to a fb post so could still be days to go yet.
do your rip, roll on Xbox Live
Looks like some of the PSN services are coming back online. They are doing it region by region according to a fb post so could still be days to go yet.
update 3.61 is on now but still no psn.
do your rip, roll on Xbox Live
I'd rather play nothing then play with the 99% of xbox players. Fortunately I only got my PS3 to play the PS3 only games that have hours of replayability
(and my old ps2 games/homebrew/bluray/use as a streaming media centre). Don't think I've even signed up to the PSN. I use custom firmware now as well which overwrites PSN (still gets game updates though fortunately).
Xbox just copies games from PC and I have a PC that I use for competitive/multiplayer gaming; with other PC gamers that understand objective based games.
Not sure why I would get an xbox to play games designed to be played with a mouse and board
I have both ps3 and xbox, I was always under the impression that most games, especially big games were built for xbox and ported to ps3 and pc. Some games such as gta and fallout have better graphics on the xbox. The xbox is a far games console than the ps3 but the ps3 is a better system. I have loads of friends on live who play very often, a few on psn who hardly ever play and I don't know anyone who plays pc games any more. All my old pc playing friends now play xbox.
There has unfortunately been a trend recently (last couple years or so) of the AAA's being ported from consoles to PC. Sucks, but there's more xbox players than any other type of device at least for vidya. Originally though shooting games were built and designed for PC. That's why the large majority of competitive gaming is done on pc, especially shooting games. 5200 dpi mouse can't be beaten by a controller. I don't believe any game that is released on pc/xbox/ps3 has ever had better graphics on xbox or ps3 compared to a high end pc. It's simply not possible, especially since the cell processors and onboard graphics used just can't handle advanced settings.
It's easy to understand why Xbox is so popular as well. It repalces the need to understand and maintain a computer. As well as the fact that it's cheaper and a lot more painless for parents to buy their kids a box that plugs in and just works. I see that as a shame though, it's a culture almost wiped out =/ People would rather play a consolised version of a game than learn to use a PC. YMMV though, just my opinion.
It's very saddening to see games designed on the xbox and ported though. They nearly always fail terribly. Crysis2, Black Ops, Homefront, Dragon Age 2 just to name a few of the recent games that were designed on/for the big console market and then ported to pc were all awful. They are all sequels to PC games that were designed on PC and were fantastic (except homefront).
ps3 home is now working
Psn is up and running in USA now peeps
http://us.playstation.com/
psn uk is now working
Details Of The Welcome Back Programme For SCEE Users
Countries: AE, AU, GB, IE, NZ
Now that certain PSN services have been restored and you’re once again enjoying online gaming, it seems a good time to confirm what is being offered as part of the Welcome Back programme.
Once we restore PlayStation Store, which will be just a little while longer, you will have the opportunity to claim your Welcome Back gifts. Please note that the Welcome Back programme is only available for those countries with access to PlayStation Store*.
All existing PlayStation Network members will be able to access the following from PlayStation Store*:
Two PS3 games from the following list:
LittleBigPlanet
Infamous*
Wipeout HD/Fury
Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
Dead Nation*
For those with PSP accounts, you will also be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list:
LittleBigPlanet PSP
ModNation PSP
Pursuit Force
Killzone Liberation*
- 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PS Plus subscribers*
- Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will be given 60 days free subscription.
- For existing Music Unlimited subscribers, you will be given 30 days free subscription.
- We are working on a Welcome Back offer in PlayStation Home and will share that when it is confirmed.
I would like to thank all of the developers and publishers involved in this programme for their support in making this happen. We certainly couldn’t have done it without you.
You will be able to access this content once PlayStation Store comes back online and we are doing everything we can to make that happen as soon as possible.
Thank you for your support and keep checking back on the blog for more information.
1.For eligibility for the welcome back programme consumers must be an account holder on 20 April 2011. Specific details about these offers and eligibility requirements will be posted as the services go live. All existing PSN registrants have 30 days from when the welcome back programme goes live to redeem their content.
1.For the German market, InFamous and Dead Nation will be replace with Super Stardust HD and Hustle Kings in the selection of PS3 games.
2.For the German market, Pursuit Force and Killzone Liberation will be replaced with Everybody’s Golf 2 and Buzz Junior Jungle Party in the selection of PSP games. Killzone Liberation will not offer online gameplay functionality.
3.Access to the 30 days free PS Plus subscription is only available for those countries where PS Plus is offered. You will have access to the PS Plus content planned for May for 30 days. Access to the free games and exclusive features finishes at the end of the 30-day subscription period. Anything you buy with exclusive discounts, dynamic themes and premium avatars are yours to keep forever.
We’re getting unverified reports that a way for someone to reset your PSN password apparently given just your PSN email and your date of birth has surfaced – more information here – and the ability to sign in online via the various PlayStation.com sites has just been removed.
This does happen on other sites, although generally you tend to get an email confirmation first which you need to click to reset your password. Nyleveia are assuming there’s some tricky URL manipulation going on.
We’re not entirely sure what’s happening, but from the site linked above (which is still updating) it looks like there may be a loop-hole remaining. Nyleveia suggested PSN users should change their email addresses as well as password, but obviously with the sign-in form currently down this isn’t possible.
It does appear that this only resets your password rather than changes it.
The PlayStationEU Twitter has, in the last few minutes, said that this is maintenence due to ISPs finally sending password reset emails from when the PSN stirred back into life. The EU forums have official information on the downtime although it doesn’t mention any of the above.
Nyleveia say they’ve contacted Sony.
We must stress that we have no other information on this other than what’s on Nyleveia.com, and their page has changed a couple of times adding and removing text.
Ex0 I for one would rather be a pc gamer but over the years I've spent lots of money upgrading graphics cards ect, now I spend most of my money on cars hence the reason I have an xbox.
The price of a half decient graphics card these days is ridiculous, I gave up when my last desktop went bang.
Also with the pc you can customise your games to have say what cars you want in gta. Awesome gaming on pc but also costly.
ffs psn down again
PlayStation Network is not available at present. This could be for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance or essential updates and we apologise for the inconvenience caused. In the meantime, you can continue to explore the world of PlayStation at eu.playstation.com.
Keep an eye on twitter.com/PlayStationEU for updates and the PlayStation Network bar at the top of the PC version of the site to find out when the service is back up and running.
http://uk.playstation.com/registration/unavailable/
Strange, I just came off it and it was fine.
shadow its down in the US hun where zipp is
It just keeps getting worse for Sony, Now apparantly PS3 FAT models are supposedly overheating due to the new firmware And LA Noire
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-18-firmware-3-61-causing-ps3s-to-overheat
Some of the PSN is back up and running now, you are prompted to change your password.
There's still no sign of the PlayStation Store. Last week, we reported that Sony's development and publishing partners were given notice that the online marketplace may actually return today, May 24, instead of the previously announced deadline of May 31. It looks like PlayStation users will have to wait perhaps another week before they're able to access downloadable-content and games.Writing on the PlayStation Blog today, PlayStation social media manager Jeff Rubenstein stated that the store was still set to come back online sometime between now and May 31. "For those asking about the PlayStation Store, we?re still targeting restoration of all services by the end of this month," he wrote. "Contrary to reports, the Store will not be publishing today."Beyond the inability to download expansions for games like "Fallout: New Vegas," PlayStation Network users are also still unable to access their "welcome back" package contents. The program rewards PlayStation users with three free games ? out of a selection of five ? as compensation for the inconvenience of the network's outage and the possibility of their personal data being stolen.Rubenstein also noted that the PlayStation Network would be down from 8a.m. to 5p.m. PST today for maintenance. It's not immediately clear if the maintenance has anything to do with restoring the PlayStation Store, but it doesn't appear to be security related. The downtime will stop "some users" from being able to access the network, but the majority of you should still be able to play games online.While I don't believe today's downtime is anything related to a security problem (I hope), Sony is still having issues with hackers in other areas of the company.Reuters reports today that Sony websites in three countries have been hacked. The personal data of around 8,500 people was stolen from the company's Greek website in this latest intrusion. Will these problems ever end for Sony? ps i know this is from yesterday.
psn seems to be down again
The PlayStation Network has been back with us for around two weeks now without the full service being resumed. Now today we have new reports of Sony’s PSN down again on May 29 in the US and parts of Europe. Many PlayStation 3 owners found problems again this morning when trying to sign into the network.
The service has only just recently gone live in Japan and it was hoped that the PlayStation Store would be back by Tuesday, according to an article on Judge Game. Luckily Sony has not left it long before responding to the problems. They have said that some users may experience problems signing in, as they are working on restoring the full PSN service.
It hasn’t been said how long the service may be down for but it should mean we finally see the PlayStation Store back online. This will also mean that you will be able to start accessing the free downloads offered by Sony.
At the time of writing we have reports of some areas in Europe the service is down, but some of our readers in the UK have confirmed it is available. Is the PSN service working in your area?
Messi what's CFW?
the psn store is back on
I'll left my on downloading s hitloads still no welcome back pack yet.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20068161-260.html
So is all this crap resolved now, finally?
So is all this crap resolved now, finally?
doesn't look like matt, sony hacked again
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13636704
Well at least Lulzsec aren't skiddies. That should make Sony feel a bit better.
psn welcome back pack is now on.
Some good news has come from the well publicised PlayStation Network outage that Sony and its users were hit by last month. Not only has full service been restored, 3 arrests have been made over the most notorious cyber theft in history.
The hackers broke into Sony’s network and made off with the personal details of over 80 million users, if that was not bad enough it caused almost a month of frustration for eager gamers as they could not play online. According to Electric Pig, 3 suspects have been arrested in Spain, all being members of the hacking activist group “Anonymous”.
During the crisis which saw millions of users offline, Anonymous publicly spoke out and claimed that they were not behind the attack. With many taking their word for it and focusing their attention on finding a solo mastermind thief, it appears that the men in masks may have been telling porkies after all. The Spanish law are holding the 3 suspects with more arrests expected. Sony should now beware of a new threat posed by LulzSec.
This has been somewhat a bonus as the suspects have also been connected to various other cyber crime such as on Spanish banks and an Italian energy firm. The Huffington Post has reported that the hackers were rumbled after it was discovered that a computer server in one of their homes was used to take part in cyber attacks on a number of targets including Sony
Bit of a weird story, considering that literally anyone can call themselves Anonymous.
I think the journalist should have researched that a bit more - AnonOps said they they never touched Sony's internal servers which was true. The thousand or so that follow AnonOps didn't - these guys did instead.