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PlayStation Outage Makes Some Capcom Games Unplayable Offline

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The ongoing Playstation Network outage also makes a couple Capcom games unplayable, even offline.

Capcom confirmed with Kotaku that Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 and the Final Fight/Magic Sword game pack are unplayable without an online connection. The issue is caused by Capcom's use of a particular form of copy protection for the games which requires an active connection to PSN to play the titles.

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In other news, while the official U.S. Playstation Blog says they are investigating the cause of the outage, the European blog briefly said that the outage may be a result of "the possibility of targeted behaviour by an outside party."

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