Digitimes is at it again! Today, the daily newspaper from Taiwan reports that a Kinect-like motion sensing device will come along with the PlayStation 4 when it launches, reportedly, in 2012.
Just after a day after a shareholders meeting, Sony has announced that they will be shuffling some of their top executives as Akira Sato (Chairman, SCE) and Ken Kutaragi (Honorary Chairman, SCE) are set to retire soon.
George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, has begun working at Facebook, the company has confirmed. Hotz, known for being the first one to unlock the original iPhone and famous ever since for other iPhone hacks and a PlayStation 3 jailbreak, will now be using his coding expertise to further boost Facebook's mobile empire.
Sony Japan has officially announced revised hardware for the PlayStation 3 Slim. The updated model weighs less, is more efficient with power and also comes with stronger copy protection (as we reported yesterday).
Spanish police said today it has arrested three people who were allegedly involved in the PlayStation Network attacks that brought the system to a halt last month. The hackers are said to be part of "Anonymous", a semi-centralized activist group known for bringing down several government websites in the past.
Sony unveiled today at E3 a new 24-inch 240Hz 3D high-definition screen made specifically for the PlayStation 3, along with 3D active-shutter glasses that don't only work with Sony's own TV's, but they're also capable of handling displays from third-parties.
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.
Sony is still reeling from its many, many hacker-related problems over the last few weeks. It was only yesterday that Sony finally managed to bring its PSN Store back online across the globe and then, as if the universe was trying to really kick them when they just thought things were getting better, the Music arm of Sony found itself on the wrong end of a fresh hacking attempt. But surely all their hard work behind the scenes have made PSN and Qriocity hack-proof, right? Wrong, according to one industry expert.
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.
As promised earlier this week, all PlayStation Network services are being restored today in Europe, America and most of Asia. On Tuesday, we reported that Sony intended to bring back the service by the end of the week. Today, Sony is confirming it once again in a press release.
