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PlayStation’s first original TV series, Powers, will hit PSN in March. The first three episodes, released on March 10th, will be free to all PSN members, while the remaining seven episodes will be available to PlayStation Plus subscribers, with a new one arriving every Tuesday. The series had originally been …
Read More »PSN Christmas apology discounts roll out this week
A ten per cent discount will be available to PSN users this weekend as par of Sony’s apology for the service’s Christmas outage. Kicking off at 9:00am this Friday (January 23rd) and running until 9:00am the following Monday (January 26th), PSN users will be able to use a promotional code …
Read More »Teenager arrested over PSN and Xbox Live DDoS attacks
A teenager from Merseyside has been arrested in connection to DDoS attacks on PSN and Xbox Live. Sky News reports that a joint operation between the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU)and the FBI led to the arrest on suspicion of unauthorised access to computer material and making threats …
Read More »PSN hit by more service trouble
PlayStation owners are once again today experiencing trouble accessing PSN. We’re aware that some players are seeing drops on PSN,” the official PlayStation Twitter feed said. Engineers are on the case and investigating.” Both PSN and Xbox Live were rocked by a prolonged stint of downtime over Christmas, leading to …
Read More »Sony compensates gamers for PSN downtime
PlayStation owners are being compensated for the downtime suffered by PSN over Christmas. The PSN was brought down by a group (called Lizard Squad) who apparently wanted to show Sony and Microsoft how easy it is to bring down their networks. But they only really succeeded in angering gamers and …
Read More »Opinion: Hackers once again expose frailties in gaming’s online future
The brave new online, socially-connected world of video games is not quite proving as revolutionary as we had hoped. So this Christmas a group that call themselves Lizard Squad claim to have brought down PlayStation Network and Xbox Live (via the old DDoS attack), which effectively rendered both PS4 and …
Read More »Cyber bullies spoil Christmas for Xbox and PlayStation
With almost 1m PS4 and Xbox One consoles nestled under UK gamer’s trees yesterday, Christmas Day 2014 was expected to be a successful one for Sony and Microsoft. Yet both consoles were left unworkable yesterday and into today as both Xbox Live and PSN failed. Hacker group Lizard Squad has …
Read More »Telltale games cut in price on PS4 to fall in line with Xbox One
The price of Telltale’s Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands has been cut on PS4. It was noticed last week that the total price for the new Game of Thrones series on PS4 was 24.99 while on Xbox One it was just 19.98. Eurogamer now reports that the …
Read More »DriveClub problems can’t stop it topping PSN sales charts
Some may be calling it the worst first party console launch of all time, but that hasn’t stopped digital buyers flocking to DriveClub. The game has topped the PSN sales chart in Europe for October, topping previous chart-topper Minecraft and beating second place newcomer Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. It may …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare hits digital snags on PS4 and Xbox One
Some users who chose to buy the latest Call of Duty via either PSN or XBL are experiencing problems getting the game up and running on their machines. Reports of a problem first arose amongst PlayStation users who had pre-ordered and pre-loaded the game, with Sony acknowledging the issue and …
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