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Sony Explains Playstation Hack to Congress, Calls Anonymous “Cyberterrorists”

The cyber attack that knocked the Playstation Network and Sony Online Entertainment offline for more than a week was a “very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack designed to steal personal and credit card information,” according to a letter from Sony to members of Congress obtained by Kotaku today from government sources.…

By Brian Crecente Published May 4, 2011

Sony: PlayStation Network Will Return This Week

PlayStation Network, down since April 20, will return this week, said Kazuo Hirai, the second-in-command for Sony Corp., at a news conference today in Tokyo. When PSN comes online, PS3 users will face a mandatory system software update that also requires them to change their account passwords before they can sign into the service. That…

By Owen Good Published May 1, 2011

Developer reveals gameplay, character creation for D&D Daggerdale

Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale is a hack-and-slash action game coming out for Xbox, Playstation and PC in late May. This visit to the Forgotten Realms is the first time console players have been able to play a D&D videogame in several years. Atari Producer Michael Fahrny answered a few of our questions about designing a…

By Ed Grabianowski Published April 29, 2011

Credit Card Companies See No Sign of PSN Hack Fraud

Speaking to Bloomberg, spokesmen for Wells Fargo & Co., American Express Co. and MasterCard Inc. said they were monitoring cardholder accounts and hadn’t seen unauthorized activity relating to Sony. [Bloomberg]

By Brian Crecente Published April 28, 2011

Playstation Network Hack Shows That Games And Their Problems Are Mainstream

The banner headline this morning for the San Jose Mercury News was: Sony says PlayStation users’ personal and credit data may have been stolen. Congratulations, games are mainstream and so are their problems. As you may have noticed, I’ve taken a break from writing here. After 5 years (yes, 5 years), it has been time…

Steven Davis Published April 27, 2011

Sony Comes Clean: PlayStation Network Hackers Have Stolen Personal Data

A security breach in the Playstation Network by still unidentified hackers resulted in stolen personal information, Sony confirmed today. Sony says while personal information was likely stolen they don’t believe credit card numbers were and that they hope to have the Playstation Network service back up within a week. The news comes more than nine…

By Brian Crecente Published April 26, 2011

Sony PlayStation Tablets’ Touchscreen D-Pad In Real Life

A virtual d-pad has worked better on tablets and phones than many have expected, but mostly for games designed with those limitations in mind. [Impress Watch] One thing hasn’t changed: Sony knows how to make pretty hardware. The slate-style tablet isn’t as thin as you’d think. Sony’s New PlayStation Tablet is a Sexy Beast Today…

By Joel Johnson Published April 26, 2011

Sony’s S2 PlayStation Tablet Looks Familiar

Sony’s S1 tablet looks like a beautiful piece of gear. We’re really digging the tapered, magazine-like edge to it. The S2, though? With the dual screens and touch interface? It looks like a fan mock-up of a 3DS Lite, albeit a very pretty one.

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2011

Check out the First Trailer for Sony’s New PlayStation Tablets

Here’s the debut trailer for Sony’s new pair of PlayStation-certified tablet computers, the S1 and S2

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2011

Sony’s New PlayStation Tablet is a Sexy Beast

Today in Tokyo, Sony revealed that its latest PlayStation hardware, the 9.4 inch Sony S1. It’s the first tablet that is (officially) capable of playing PlayStation games, such as PlayStation 1 games or Sony-approved titles for mobile platforms. It is the first Sony tablet to carry the “PlayStation Certified” logo. The S1 is slated for…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 26, 2011

The Human Who Sleeps On PlayStation Magazines

Under Twitter user Bros’ mattress, there is a treasure trove of magazines – fifteen years of Dengeki PlayStation magazines to be exact. Bros started with the September 27, 1996 issue and hasn’t looked back. Bros has looked under the bed, though. In an age when paper is becoming increasingly meaningless, it’s comforting to note that…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2011

Digital Pioneer Who Established Sony Computer Entertainment Dies At 81

Norio Ohga, the former chairman of Sony who, in 1993, established Sony Computer Entertainment and paved the way for the PlayStation, died Saturday morning in Tokyo. He was 81. Ohga’s digital media vision had far reaching impact, not just for his company but for all electronics manufacturers. In video games, Sony and Nintendo had been…

By Owen Good Published April 23, 2011

It’s Time For Chrono Trigger To Become A PSone Classic

Looks like the enhanced PlayStation port of Square Enix’s seminal role-playing game Chrono Trigger is bound for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. The ESRB has just rated Chrono Trigger for those platforms, so expect the update of that JRPG favorite to show up as a PSone Classic on a PlayStation Store near you soon.

By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2011

How One Man Stopped Square-Enix From Letting Gamers Kill Yahweh

The attempt to include overt references to Judeo-Christian figures in the classic role-playing game Xenogears caused a few translators to quit — they feared a violent backlash — and prompted a change in the name of the game’s final boss, according to one of the people who brought the game to America. On this week’s…

By Drew Cohen Published April 22, 2011

Robbing A Convenience Store With A PlayStation Controller Is Doing It Wrong

A St. Petersburg, Florida man tried—and failed miserably—to rob a convenience store by subjecting the clerk to the business end of a PlayStation controller, reports Bay 9 News. His mistake? By performing said robbery in the presence of “a police officer who walked into the store in the middle of the robbery,” according to police.…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 19, 2011

Sony Bigwig Trash Talks Nintendo 3DS and Hurts Our Feelings

During an interview with Fortune Magazine, SCEA’s charming CEO Jack Tretton discussed the company’s business strategies…and then indulged in some nasty smack talk. “If you’re really going to sustain technology for a decade, you have to be cutting edge when you launch a platform,” Tretton explains to the business mag. Reasonable enough. But the Playstaion…

By Drew Cohen Published April 8, 2011

How the Playstation Helped Shape the Most Interesting iPad Game of the Year

It all started with a song, an instrumental created with a Playstation by Canadian musician Jim Guthrie, it seems. Speaking to NOW Magazine, Guthrie explains how he went from days creating music for Three Gut Records to working with a team of five on what would become iPad gaming darling Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery –…

By Brian Crecente Published April 4, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

The Joys Of A Console’s First Moments

Know what I tend to remember consoles by? Not their games, or controllers, or even hardware casings. I usually remember them for their boot-up jingles. As silly as that sounds, those first few seconds of animation and music really set the tone for what the platform holder hopes is to come, and more than any…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2011

PS3 Hacker Flees the Long Arm of Sony for South American Freedom

The saga of George “geohot” Hotz continues, hurtling deeper into absurdity with each growing unit of acceleration. He fought the law and lost—a judge demanded he hand over his PS3-hack relevant hard drives. His answer? I’m out, bitches. According to a court document filed by Sony in its noble, interminable battle to prevent people from…

By Sam Biddle Published March 23, 2011

Read The Humble Beginnings of Grand Theft Auto From 16 Years Ago

Grand Theft Auto, the controversial and violent video game series that has sold in excess of 100 million units, began its life as a simple design document in 1995, back when the game was still known as Race’n’Chase. Reading that design doc isn’t nearly as much fun as playing a Grand Theft Auto game, but…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 21, 2011