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PlayStation Network Downtime 101

Malek Teffaha of GIGAlb, "Any and every PS3 user would by now know that the PSN (PlayStation Network) has been down ever since Wednesday the 20th of April. Many are wondering what the hell is going on, others are just enjoying their long four day weekend vacation and spending some quality time with family and friends. Well, while I wait for the PSN to be back online to continue my preview on the inFAMOUS 2 Beta, I am here to give you a small briefing of what is going on and a rundown of what can be done."

WharenPeace4753d ago

This is actually a very good summary of the events leading up to what's currently ailing PSN. I enjoyed reading it.

DeforMAKulizer4753d ago

Thank you very much. It's wonderful to.read that you enjoyed it.

iamnsuperman4753d ago

Good summary interesting too

deadpoole4753d ago

Frankly speaking, I don't care how long PSN is down, its a free service and consider it as a privilige and really thankfull for keepin it free ... but Im really worried about is millions of credit card and personal identity information ... because any of them hacked or stolen can lead to major financial damage to the PSN users and wors even identity theft is easily possible ... :(((((((.

DeforMAKulizer4753d ago

They took the PSN offline, so don't worry no has had access to it ever since Wednesday except for Sony.

deadpoole4753d ago

Yeah true ... no one has access after they took it offline ... what about before or events that lead to taking such drastic step, could be anything or for that matter already too late, hackers might have already had successful access to all our credit cards and personal details before it was shutdown ... this is literally worryin me :(((.

DeforMAKulizer4753d ago

Had there been any compromise of information or accounts Sony would have contacted the affected parties and people immediately... They have done so in the past... I remember once i got an email from Sony that PSN was hacked and some account were compromised and how Sony contacted all those affected...

So don't worry it is safe..

deadpoole4752d ago (Edited 4752d ago )

Dude ... I totally understand what u sayin but Sony hasn't come out with any official reason or information what the fcuk is happenin and what made em take these steps ...

so yea don't be offended if I say that I don't give a rats incest a$$ about your opinion sayin "So don't worry it is safe.." comin from nobody, cuz you yourself is in same position like me and don't know jack whats happenin either ... so quit givin false hope ... :(((

And what do you think ... Sony is gonna contact us and tell that ... We are sorry all your account, credit card and personal identity details are stolen ... so get yourself a new one ... well I got a news for ya, you can get new credit card but not new effin personal details ... :((( ... and last thing Sony want is to admit it by sendin emails only to get sued for sure by millions.

DeforMAKulizer4752d ago

I understand man... But im trying to take it in as positive as possible... Hopefully things will be clearer soon. Im not giving false hope, im simply being hopeful.

But yeah, we are all in the same boat.

JobForARockStar4752d ago

Great article. I knew about what has been going on lately but I was unaware of what had happened in the past few months to have made it come to this. Personally I usually wouldn't mind this whole outage but I had literally just went to the store to buy 2 20 dollar psn cards. When I got home Psn was down. So I'm just anxious to grab some new games. Other than that I'll just stick to Portal 2 until I can get online for some Co-op.

Shadow04752d ago

Ughhh psn outage is the only thing on n4g lately.. So annoying...

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Kee4753d ago

Things to do during PSN downtime:
Sleep!!!!!! lmao. Great plan.

Information Minister4753d ago

What? No... That's a terrible plan. There's a ton of great single player games to experience while PSN is down. Vanquish, Castlevania: LoS, Mass Effect 2, God of War III are some of the single player games that I played recently and I recommend all of them.

It's times like these that make me grateful that I'm an old school kind of gamer that vastly favors single player over multiplayer. Or maybe I'm just getting old.

beavis4play4753d ago

you're not old. like me, you're just old enough to know that being a gamer does NOT mean having to have an internet connection.
i've been playing SP zombies on WaW/BO; dead nation; demon souls; UC2; SSHD; RE2; and KZ3!

Kee4753d ago

Well I've just completed portal 2 and I'm getting mortal kombat this week anyway so I'm good to go. I wouldn't want to play that online, anyway until I get good at it.

PS3ROCKS4753d ago

No,No PSN can't be down it can't be. Every thing will be ok, breath in breath out . What will I do? I know I will freeze myself, remove every thing from my freezer, set timer 5 days. Done. See you soon.

Ace_19754753d ago

Shit happens, it's part of life, deal with it. I remember when I thought my PS3 was bricked when it wouldn't roll over to the new year, it was a clock error that prevented me playing games for 24 hours. I remember everyone panicking like it was World war 3 and some retards even sold their PS3 after a few hours of not being able to go online with it.

People are freaks and need to calm down. You will be playing on your PSN in a few days, so shut the fuck up please. We really didn't need over 1000 articles about it, and another 1000 giving those hacker pussies the attention they crave.

InLaLaLand4753d ago

Gamers this generation are impatience. People can still play offline, heck I haven't touched my PS3 since last month due to discs not showing on the XMB you get the idea (the system recognises discs).

Dark_king4753d ago

Yea me and a buddy bought like twenty five PS3's cheap because that leap year bug.Each for under a hundred bucks.I sold a few and made a nice penny.He hacked his to work on some particle physics engine.Was a great day.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2628d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905072d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5072d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905072d ago (Edited 5072d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5072d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5072d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5072d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495072d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5072d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5072d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2663d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One