Last week we were amazed to bring you news that Steam and Activision had paired up to make the entire multiplayer portion of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 available to play for free. Someone at Sony was clearly paying attention, as the company has just made Killzone 3 available on the Playstation 3 at the same gratis price point. Read more
Want Sky TV on your PS3? The wait is over. Sony has struck up a deal with Sky TV in the UK to bring some of its biggest shows to the Playstation Store Video Store. It’s a big deal for PS3 owners, who can now buy individual episodes in SD or HD from a fairly decent line-up. Read more
Sony’s PR disaster regarding the Playstation Network hack may have taken another dive – a new lawsuit alleges that Sony fired several internet security staff right before the hack took place.
The long arm of the law knows no bounds. Spanish police are reporting the arrest of three suspects accused in last month’s PlayStation Network hack. Taking down the network for nearly a month and compromising more than 80 million user accounts will lead to quite a lengthy wrap sheet.
The three suspects, all part of the #Anonymous hacker group, were leaders in Barcelona, Alicante and Almeria. By rather unconventional means the Spanish police broke the news on its Twitter page, “Spanish Police dismantle the #Anonymous hacker group in Spain. They attacked #PlayStation Store”.
It appears Codemasters has a lot more in common with the PlayStation Network than we previously suspected. The company is now the proud owner of a major data breach, resulting in all customer information being compromised.
If you’re a Codemaster’s customer, the computer games publisher should be sending out an email alerting you of the unauthorized entry which affected codemasters.com, both corporate and sub-domains, DiRT3 vip code redemption page and the Codemaster’s EStore.
Jump starting your week it’s time for your evening dose of tech news. Today we begin with an update on the Motorola Droid 3, also known as the Milestone 3. We carry on with Sony’s forecast predicting the PSN hack will cost £160m and we close with Apple Store 2.0, the future of Mac retail. This and more on today’s US Update.
In a surprise twist this afternoon, Sony has updated investors with revised estimates ahead of its official earnings report scheduled for Thursday. The company now expects to post a net loss of 260 billion yen (£1.98b), a far cry from its net profit forecast of 70 billion yen (£531m) for 2010 to 2011. Now, for the first time, we can put a price tag on the PSN outage which compromised millions of our identities.
Rise and shine ladies and gentlemen, it’s about that time for another edition of the US Update. Kicking off the morning news is an announcement from Sony, outlining the company’s ‘Welcome Back Program’ to restore peace and harmony in the PlayStation Network. We take a look at an Android security threat current affecting 99 percent of users and then review more specs for the iPhone 5.
