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PSN Update 4: Network Not Up Until May 31st and new Xbox 360 Counter Update

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Update 5 (PSN is now back in parts of the US but not the UK yet)

The PSN Network won’t be up until the end of the month now. Sony is planning to have the system back online by May 31st. It had hoped to have at least partial service restored by the end of this week.  Gamers will now be wondering if they will ever get back online. The network has been down for almost three weeks now and many have been forced to find other activities. The attack is now thought to be one of the biggest in history.

Businesses reliant on the Sony network have lost millions of dollars. Capcom’s senior Vice president Christian Svensson said he was ‘frustrated and upset’. Many developers have felt paralysed by the outage.

It has now been 4 days without an update from Sony. Can they hold onto their fan base with the lack of information? There is only so long fans will wait.

In a further blow to Sony, leaked information from www.product-reviews.net has confirmed that rival Microsoft is planning to update its Xbox 360 dashboard later this month. The update will come out between Thursday 19th and May 30th. It will bring in a brand new disc format, known as XGD3, with anti-piracy measures designed to increase security.

Apparently the new update will support Paypal on the Xbox marketplace to further protect users against potential online fraud.

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PSN Update 2: Sony Closes Another Online Service as 100 Million Now Affected

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Sony’s and millions of users nightmare got even worse today as it emerged that not only had the play station network been hacked but also Sony’s Online Entertainment. Sony was forced to close the service which runs various online games.

Worse still the SOE breach was thought to have happened before the PSN network problems which raise numerous questions about Sony’s whole handling of the crisis. One expert said, ‘Inevitably people will be wondering if more is to come’. Names, addresses, emails, DOBs, numbers and this time Sony has also admitted some credit details card (Outside the US) were taken.

On Sunday Sony had said that it hoped to have some services up and running sometime this week, though nothing is certain. Users will need to use two methods to verify their account when PSN goes back online, because of the compromised security. The exact methods remain unclear.

Sony also hit back at reports that millions of credit card details had been taken, saying that too its knowledge this is untrue. They said, ‘there is no evidence our main credit card database was compromised’. We can only hope that everything gets back online as soon as possible.

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