The next-generation PlayStation Portable, known as the PlayStation Vita, was announced at this year's E3 conference on Monday. The new handheld includes new features such as a 5-inch OLED touch screen display and analog sticks that work as controllers.
When we thought Sony was finally secure, a group that calls itself "Lulz Security" broke into three well-known Sony websites: Sony Pictures, Sony Music Belgium and Sony Music Netherlands. 1,000,000 user profiles were compromised, with sensitive information include passwords, home addresses and passwords finding its way onto Internet file sharing services.
Remember the Welcome Back package Sony promised us by way of saying thank you for sticking by the beleaguered platform during the PSN downtime of the last few weeks? Now that the company has finally managed to bring its PSN Store back online, they've also announced just how this package works and more importantly, your free content can be downloaded right now if you can cope with the many error codes currently being thrown up by the service while it attempts to deal with a few million people hitting it at once.
And just when you thought it was safe to go back online on Sony, and their online services such as the PlayStation Network, a group called LulzSec today has managed to hack SonyPictures.com, resulting in over 1 million accounts being compromised.
If you're a PlayStation Network customer, you may be happy to know you'll likely have your services back really soon: later this week according to Sony.
Sony is releasing a Tales of Xillia special edition PlayStation 3 in Japan, continuing the company's trend of special edition bundles.
Not content with fighting what appears to be their own personal war against online hackers, Sony has today released details of a new official wireless headset and microphone combination that they believe takes gaming to a new aural high.
What, another story about Sony? Yes, but this time it's good news: after a month of downtime, the company is bringing some PlayStation Network services back in some parts of Asia. While there's still no word on when US services are returning, some progress is still better than no word at all.
PlayStation Network users have been having a hard time lately, with successive hacks, followed by a long downtime which continues to this day. At least they will now be able to tell whether the service is down or not thanks to a simple iPhone App.
United States-based PlayStation Network users will now be able to register for a free Identity Protection service, thanks to an arrangement made by Sony with Debix.
