Publishing

First PSN lawsuit is filed

A US man has filed a lawsuit against Sony following the PSN hacker attack and user data leak that has seen the service shut down for over a week. As noted by Cnet, Kristopher Johns, 36, from Birmingham, Alabama, filed the suit yesterday in the US District Court for the …

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Sony dates speculative PSN return

PlayStation platform holder Sony has confirmed that it hopes to have some PSN services back online by May 3rd. If true, that would mean that the console network will have endured a two week down period. "Our employees have been working day and night to restore operations as quickly as …

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Nintendo’s ready for a fresh start…

This is huge news: 80m unit sales after 2006’s watershed moment for this generation, Nintendo’s already working on the next. Without PS4 or Xbox 720 anywhere in sight. Until E3, the most interesting speculation will be on what untapped area of the market the firm is going for this time. …

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Ubisoft grabs twin racing rights

Ubisoft will release games from Italian publisher Black Bean in the UK. The deal means that the Assassin’s Creed publisher can add licensed racing games to its roster, including motorbike franchise SBK and rally series WRC. The firm will also release Black Bean’s other titles, such as its National Geographic …

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Visa assures PSN users

Global payments company Visa has said that customers need not automatically cancel their cards, but should remain vigilant for the time being. Concerned cardholders should keep a close eye on their accounts and report any unusual or unexpected activity to their issuing bank," a statement issued to MCV reads. "Cardholders …

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National press savages PSN

The UK media has gone big on Sony’s PSN admission this morning, creating a nightmare morning for the platform holder. National paper Metro has lead with the story on its front page this morning (pictured) with the headline ‘Panic Stations’. The story is currently lead on The Telegraph’s website, while …

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Sony explains six day wait

With the catastrophic security failure that has blighted PSN all over the national press this morning, Sony has attempted to address the main criticism currently being thrown its way – why did it wait six days to inform customers? "There’s a difference in timing between when we identified there was …

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Valve: Portal 2 is our last single player game

Portal 2 developer Valve has reportedly suggested that the game would be the developer’s last single-player game. The news comes by way of Valve behind-the-scenes chronicler Geoff Keighley who last week published an Apple iPad application called "The final hours of Portal 2". In the application Keighley said "Portal 2 …

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