Neowin News Feed for: Psn

PlayStation Store revamp: coming October 23rd

Jake Durasamy — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:53:42 +0100

PlayStation is planning and working on a revamp for the PlayStation store to help users to find content more efficiently. From what we can see, it looks like Sony's taken notes from Microsoft. Read more...

Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock released for PS3

Byron Hinson — Wed, 23 May 2012 19:27:08 +0100

Come face to face with some famous Doctor Who enemies such as the Cybermen, the Silence and the Daleks in the BBC's latest game released today for the PlayStation 3, Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock. Read more...

Scourge: Outbreak - Gallery and announcement

Byron Hinson — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:09:35 +0100

Scourge: Outbreak is a new third-person shooter game that will be released later this year on a host of formats. There will be four-player co-op, nine weapons and an XP system. The game is due Q3 2012 Read more...

Proposed changes to Sony's PSN terms of service cleared by court

Paul Ferson — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:13:37 +0100

A court has cleared the way for Sony to change the Terms of Service for what is now known as its Entertainment Network (formerly PSN), arguing that users make a conscious decision to use the service. Read more...

Michael Jackson's back catalogue stolen by smooth criminals

Jake Durasamy — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:28:55 +0000

Musical icon, Michael Jackson's back catalogue was apparently one of the pieces of content which was stolen in Sony's security breach last year. This theft includes 50,000 individual tracks. Read more...

Giveaway: Epic Quest for PSN; win it before you can buy it! [Update]

Christopher White — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:25:15 +0000

Win it before you can buy it! Zen Studios has given us some free codes to use as giveaways to our readers. Now you can play the latest Pinball FX2 release, Epic Quest, due to be released on Tuesday! Read more...

Nintendo Network to rival Xbox Live and the PSN

John Callaham — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:56:37 +0000

Nintendo has announced plans to launch the Nintendo Network, a new online gaming service for its 3DS portable game console and the upcoming Wii U console that could rival Xbox Live and the PSN. Read more...

Review: Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue

Christopher White — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:55:26 +0000

Zen Studios released another four-pack of Marvel comic inspired tables. How does this compare to their other tables? Is it worth a purchase? We'll examine all four tables and let you know! Read more...

Assassin's Creed: Revelations beta will be timed exclusive on PSN

Paul Ferson — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:09:12 +0100

The highly anticipated beta for Assassin's Creed: Revelations will be a timed exclusive on the PlayStation Network. Some of the content, including a new trailer, have been shared by Ubisoft. Read more...

Playstation Network Welcome Back program ends Sunday

John Callaham — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:51:09 +0100

The special month long "Welcome Back" program for users of Sony's Playstation Network is about to come to an end. At midnight Pacific time on Sunday, July 3 owners of the Playstation 3 and PSP... Read more...

Analysts: Sony attack shows lack of hardware innovation

Mike Brown — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:37:38 +0100

Sony's recent attacks from hacker groups, the most recent of which saw Sony BMG falling victim, have been estimated to cost the company within the region of $1 billion. But while users see the figure... Read more...

PlayStation Store available as Sony fully restores services

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:35:05 +0100

After many, many weeks of troubles, attacks and extended downtime, Sony has finally announced that the full restoration of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services has begun in the Americas, Europe/PAL regions and Asia (excluding... Read more...

US PSN/Qriocity customers can now get their free ID theft protection

Steve Donaghy — Thu, 26 May 2011 01:58:27 +0100

It wasn't long after news of the Playstation Network being hacked broke that Sony promised to give each user free access to an identity theft protection service and now it seems they've kept their word,... Read more...

Rumor: PS3 CFW users find a way back onto PSN?

Steve Donaghy — Wed, 18 May 2011 01:01:50 +0100

In a rather interesting turn of events, it appears that PS3 users with custom firmware are able to log back into PSN - without upgrading to 3.61, the firmware released by Sony as part of... Read more...

Sony to rush through PlayStation store releases

Steve Donaghy — Tue, 17 May 2011 11:57:07 +0100

As you might have imagined, when the PSN went down, all of the titles and releases that were meant to happen were halted. This has caused a backlog of content, with publishers and developers losing... Read more...

Report: Amazon EC2 servers used in PlayStation Network attacks

Denis Wong — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:20:27 +0100

Another weekend's going by without any hint on the gamers' side over the status of the PlayStation Network, despite a brief memo to developers yesterday and a few whispers over the restoration of the internal... Read more...

Sony plans to hand out free games as part of "welcome back" package

Steve Donaghy — Fri, 06 May 2011 22:49:30 +0100

Earlier today, Sony announced on their US PlayStation Blog that they will be offering free identity theft protection for all PlayStation Customers affected by the PSN outage. Now, the EU blog has confirmed that EU... Read more...

Third attack against Sony planned

Denis Wong — Fri, 06 May 2011 05:53:43 +0100

Sony has quite a bit of work on their hands trying to restore the PlayStation Network by the end of this week and dealing with a possible breach of customers' credit card details thanks to... Read more...

PSN database with 2.2 million credit card details up for sale?

Piers Hausjell — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:57:24 +0100

The folks over at the PSX-Scene forums are reporting that over 2.2 million customers' names, addresses, phone numbers and credit/debit card information is up for grabs to the highest bidder, including the crucial three digit... Read more...

PlayStation Network users may have credit card details stolen due to breach

Tom Dwyer — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:05:31 +0100

For a week now, Neowin has been actively reporting on Sony’s PlayStation Network as many gamers find that they’re unable to connect. As reported by Sony themselves, the reason for the downtime was because of... Read more...