PSN News: Update 5

The One With The Nose:

Hopefully, this will be the second to last post about the "Great PlayStation Network Blackout of 2011". Yesterday, Jeff Rubenstein, Social Media Manager, announced on the PlayStation Blog that all PlayStation Network services will be running at normal capacity by the end of this week. After 41 days without service, I expect people will be overjoyed at this news.

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Modern Warfare 3 Reveal Trailer

The One With The Nose:





Well, the Modern Warfare 3 trailer has been released. Obviously, here it is. To me, this looks fairly amazing.

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PSN News: Update 4

The One With The Nose:

Well, it would seem that PSN is partially down again. This time, it's the ability to login through the site. This is not the result of a hack, according to the PlayStation Blog, but Sony's doing. This is probably because Sony doesn't want their servers to go down. You can still reset your password from your PS3, just not from the browser.

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PSN News: North America "Customer Appreciation" Details

The One With The Nose:

Well, I was feeling particularly "floaty" just now, so I decided to stalk the PlayStation Blog. There was a wonderful article on the "Welcome Back"/"Customer Appreciation" program for North America. This program includes:

PS3 (2 of the following)

• Dead Nation
• inFAMOUS
• Little Big Planet
• Super Stardust HD
• Wipeout HD + Fury

PSP (2 of the following)

• Little Big Planet (PSP)
• Mod Nation Racers
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone Liberation

All

• A selection of “On Us” rental movie titles will be available to PlayStation Network customers over one weekend, where Video Service is available. Those titles will be announced soon.
• 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PlayStation Plus subscribers.
• Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive an additional 60 days of free subscription.
• Existing Music Unlimited Premium Trial subscription members will receive an additional 30 days of free premium subscription.
• Additional 30 days + time lost for existing members of Music Unlimited Premium/Basic subscription free of charge for existing Premium/Basic members.
• To welcome users Home, PlayStation Home will be offering 100 free virtual items. Additional free content will be released soon, including the next addition to the Home Mansion personal space, and Ooblag’s Alien Casino, an exclusive game.

I'm pretty excited.

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Modern Warfare 3

The One With The Nose:


Whilst upon one of my numerous escapades upon the vast plane of the internet, I happened to stumble upon (internet pun) the teaser trailers for MW3. They're amazing, in my opinion.


France





Germany





England





America




Undoubtedly, this game will be on the PlayStation 3 and XBox 360, so I have tagged it as such.

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PSN News: FINALLY

The One With The Nose:

I am pleased to report that PSN is coming back up, starting with firmware updates and online play! This is great news for all of us, and I'm about to go play online. Here's the map of the US for what states have services back online. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/14/play-on-%E2%80%93-psn-restoration-begins-now/

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PSN Video

The One With The Nose:

There has been an update in the form of a video on the PlayStation Blog. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/14/kazuo-hirai-playstation-network-relaunch-announcement/

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Service Update

The One With The Nose:

As of now, we will have a feed at the bottom of this page from the PlayStation Blog in order to have up to the minute updates. We will continue to write summaries for each update, as well as our own personal interpretations, but this new feature will allow for instant updates.

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PSN DOWN

itsdamaximum:

O NOOOOOO what will we do with our lives with no psn....

well here are some of psn's updates

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/06/service-restoration-update/

we do have lives just saying don't take this serously....

it was for fun!

you do need some difference in your day..

I have been talking for to long...so have a good day with out psn

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PSN News: Update 3

The One With The Nose:

Finally, a real breakthrough! Yesterday, Patrick Seybold posted a press release on the Playstation Blog, saying that the Playstation Network should be up within the week. Also, there will be a "Welcome Back" event to reward Sony's loyal customers for staying with Sony.

Central components of the “Welcome Back” program will include:

• Each territory will be offering selected PlayStation entertainment content for free download. Specific details of this content will be announced in each region soon.
• All existing PlayStation Network customers will be provided with 30 days free membership in the PlayStation Plus premium service. Current members of PlayStation Plus will receive 30 days free service.
• Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity subscribers (in countries where the service is available) will receive 30 days free service.

Here's what they say will be up within the next week:

The initial phase of the rollout will include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Restoration of Online game-play across the PlayStation®3 (PS3) and PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) systems

• -This includes titles requiring online verification and downloaded games

• Access to Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity for PS3/PSP for existing subscribers

• Access to account management and password reset

• Access to download un-expired Movie Rentals on PS3, PSP and MediaGo

• PlayStation®Home

• Friends List

• Chat Functionality

Well, I'm looking forward to music and games for free. This is going to be pretty awesome once PSN is back up. It's a good move on Sony's part to have this event, as it will help keep customers with Sony. They also went through what has been happening in the last 10 days on the blog post.

Working closely with several outside security firms, the company has implemented significant security measures to further detect unauthorized activity and provide consumers with greater protection of their personal information. The company is also creating the position of Chief Information Security Officer, directly reporting to Shinji Hasejima, Chief Information Officer of Sony Corporation, to add a new position of expertise in and accountability for customer data protection and supplement existing information security personnel. The new security measures implemented include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Added automated software monitoring and configuration management to help defend against new attacks
• Enhanced levels of data protection and encryption
• Enhanced ability to detect software intrusions within the network, unauthorized access and unusual activity patterns
• Implementation of additional firewalls

Well, I know I'll sleep better knowing that there is someone in Japan protecting my Little Big Planet levels from the world's hackers. Seriously though, it's good that Sony is upping their security. It will be required that you change your password once PSN comes back up to ensure account security. I hope their timeline for when PSN will come back is accurate, because I want to play online this weekend at the latest.

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