Tag: PlayStation Network
New Orleans Snares a Gameloft Game Studio With Tax Incentives
August 14th, 2011, No Comments
Gameloft announced Monday that it plans to create a Game Studio in New Orleans with up to 150 people. French mobile game publisher uses the generous incentives from the state of Louisiana, making a concerted effort to compete for future jobs. Samir El Agili, general manager of U.S. and Latin America, Gameloft, told game website [...]
PSN update: Sony’s PlayStation Network is back online (Yahoo! News)
July 27th, 2011, No Comments
Late tonight, Sony announced that it will now return PlayStation Network services to PlayStation 3 owners. In the time since, all U.S. states and several other regions have had their services restored. As far as we can tell, Sony plans to restore service to all regions within the next several hours. Sony said in its [...]
Sony lost $171 million due to PlayStation Network downtime (Yahoo! News)
July 27th, 2011, No Comments
The Sony month long adventure that began with the company of an unexpected PlayStation Network, Sony Online Entertainment Services – and finished with the reconstruction and relaunch of both – the company spending about $ 171,000,000. Sony has revealed the number of investors in an updated forecast that predicted a loss of U.S. $ 3.2 [...]
Sony Networks, At Last, Fully Restored Online (NewsFactor)
July 7th, 2011, No Comments
Sony's online networks are finally, fully back online. On Monday, the electronics and software giant said that its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services will be up again in Japan, the last market to be restored. The services to Japanese customers resumed Wednesday, about two and a half months after the outage of the Sony networks [...]
Sony Networks, At Last, Fully Restored Online (NewsFactor)
July 7th, 2011, No Comments
Sony's online networks are finally, fully back online. On Monday, the electronics and software giant said that its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services will be up again in Japan, the last market to be restored. The services to Japanese customers resumed Wednesday, about two and a half months after the outage of the Sony networks [...]
Sony to restore PlayStation network, Qriocity (AFP)
July 5th, 2011, No Comments
Sony PlayStation network to restore Qriocity TOKYO (AFP) – Sony said Monday that it would complete all of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity online distribution services in Japan to recover on Wednesday, after closing in April as a result of attacks by hackers. In the aftermath of the attacks, Sony to provide these services to [...]
Spanish police swoop on vigilante hackers (AFP)
June 24th, 2011, No Comments
Spanish police swoop on vigilante hackers MADRID (AFP) – Spanish police said Friday they had nabbed three hackers from vigilante group Anonymous for online attacks on Sony PlayStation and the governments of Egypt, Libya and Iran among others. The trio were suspected leaders of the Spanish operations of Anonymous, a so-called "hacktivist" group that breaks [...]
Analysis: Sony’s breach a hiccup to online game phenomenon (Reuters)
June 10th, 2011, No Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When service was finally restored to Sony Corp's PlayStation Network earlier this month, millions of customers rushed back to it, impatient to get back to battling friends in sports or shooter games. It was hardly the response many had expected after a major security breach, one that shut down Sony's games [...]
PlayStation Hack to Cost Sony $171M; Quake Costs Far Higher (PC Magazine)
June 10th, 2011, No Comments
Sony said Monday that the effects of the Japan earthquake and tax provisions will drag the company into a $3.18 billion loss for its 2011 fiscal year. Costs from the PlayStation Network hack are expected to total $171 million, the company said. The direct impact on Sony's sales for the earthquake is expected to be [...]
Spanish police swoop on vigilante hackers (AFP)
June 10th, 2011, No Comments
Spanish police swoop on vigilante hackers MADRID (AFP) – Spanish police said Friday they had nabbed three hackers from vigilante group Anonymous for online attacks on Sony PlayStation and the governments of Egypt, Libya and Iran among others. The trio were suspected leaders of the Spanish operations of Anonymous, a so-called "hacktivist" group that breaks [...]
