UPDATE: Sony has extended its welcome back program through 9 a.m. Tuesday. [More]
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Sony At E3: An Apology, Price For New Portable, Unintended Laughter, A Boast And Poor Defense By Kobe Bryant
By 6.7.11
Sony’s marathon E3 press conference Monday, which I attended, was a roller coaster of surreal announcements and pronouncements by the company. It started with Sony Computer Entertainment of America CEO Jack Tretton offering a profuse apology for the PlayStation Network outage and data breach, and just got more awkward from there. [More]
PlayStation Network Finally All The Way Back From The Dead
By 6.3.11
Sony made good on its promise to restore the beleaguered PlayStation Network back to full strength, re-opening the online PlayStation Store and also allowing players to re-download past purchases. [More]
Sony Says PlayStation Network Should Be Fully Restored This Week
By 5.31.11
Sony managed to patch some key parts of its downed PlayStation Network more than two weeks ago, but some functions — such as the ability to buy and download previously purchased games — are still missing. [More]
New PS3 Problems: Network Login Exploit, Overheating Consoles
By 5.19.11
Sony’s run of bad luck continues. Following the three-weeks-and-change PlayStation Network outage and accompanying data breach, Sony dealt with potentially compromised PSN website logins and reports of systems overheating when playing a popular new game. [More]
Sony CEO: Company Was Not Slow To Notify Users Of Data Breach
By 5.18.11
Sony CEO Howard Stringer lashed out at those who complained that the company waited too long to notify customers of its PlayStation Network data breach. [More]
Sony Names Games It Will Offer PS3, PSP Players To Apologize For Outage
By 5.17.11
As an apologetic gift to gamers who suffered Sony’s recently concluded PlayStation Network outage and accompanying data breach, Sony will offer players a maximum of four downloadable games — two for PS3 owners and two for those with PSPs. The games come from pre-selected fields of five games for the PS3 and four for the PSP. [More]
Don't Hold Your Breath For A Timely PlayStation Network Restoration
By 5.11.11
Remember when Sony said its downed PlayStation Network would be back up in some form sometime last week? That didn’t happen, and now that the outage nears the start of its fourth week, Sony is astutely getting more vague in its promises. [More]
Sony: Our Security Was Up To Date
By 5.9.11
Contradicting a security expert’s statement that Sony’s PlayStation Network security software was obsolete months before it was shredded by hackers, the electronics giant says its defenses were indeed up to snuff. [More]
Sony Apologizes For PlayStation Network Outage, Says 10 Million Credit Cards May Be At Risk
By 5.2.11
At a press conference in Tokyo over the weekend, executives for Sony issued a public apology for the ongoing PlayStation Network outage and admitted that upwards of 10 million users’ credit card information could possibly have been breached. [More]
Sony Considering Apologetic Gesture For Burned PS3 Owners
By 4.29.11
What sort of thank you/I’m sorry gift do you get for 77 million account holders whose private info you may have leaked? That’s the conundrum Sony is facing. [More]
PlayStation Network Goes Down, Sony Says It Could Take A While To Fix It
By 4.22.11
It’s been a rough month for the PlayStation Network, which buckled under attacks from hackers earlier this month, and now has gone down again for an extended period. [More]
Hackers Halt Attacks On PlayStation Network
By 4.8.11
Hackers who claimed responsibility for taking down Sony’s PlayStation Network and attacking other Sony sites earlier this week say they have reconsidered their methods and will stop attacking PSN “at this time.” [More]
Sony Says Alleged Hacker Withheld Evidence, His Lawyer Disagrees
By 3.24.11
Sony’s Javert-like quest to legally punish a hacker accused of jailbreaking the PS3 continues to take soap opera-like turns, with the company accusing him of fleeing for South America and refusing to turn in key evidence, the latter claim which his lawyer denies. [More]
Fix Your Own Broken PS3 Via Safe Mode
By 3.18.11
Sony inserted a safe mode into PS3s, allowing determined gamers to take a crack at fixing their broken consoles before making phone calls of shame to the customer service department to schedule repairs. [More]
Sony Can Sift Through Alleged Hacker's PayPal Records
By 3.17.11
In it’s all-out legal quest to stomp an alleged hacker who released a PS3 jailbreak, Sony continues to seem to get whatever information it wants via legal channels. After being allowed to collect the IP addresses of anyone who visited the alleged hacker’s site, Sony has now been given the go-ahead from a federal magistrate to collect the man’s PayPal records. [More]
