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Playstation Network Down Today

March 5, 2012 by · Comments Off on Playstation Network Down Today 

Playstation Network Down Today, Just a quick reminder for all you PlayStation Network users: The PSN will go down today for what sounds like a piece of heavy-duty maintenance. While previous maintenance outages have been limited in scope, today’s will be different. According to Sony, users logged into the network prior to the outage will be signed out and no user will be able to login once the outage begins. And it will go on for quite a while.

According to Engadget, the maintenance will begin at 3 P.M. EST today and end some 14 hours later at 5 A.M. EST tomorrow. Sony is encouraging users to follow their Twitter account for the latest news about the outage, which has already been delayed once.

From the PSN blog:

This significant PSN maintenance period is expected to start at just after noon Pacific and will last for several hours, until approximately 2am Pacific on Monday, March 5. Unlike typical maintenance events, consumers who are already signed-in to PSN will be signed-out, and consumers will be unable to sign in for the duration of the maintenance window. During this time, users won’t be able to access the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Home, Account Management or play online.

PlayStation Network

July 9, 2011 by · Comments Off on PlayStation Network 

PlayStation NetworkPlayStation Network, In 2008, the restart of Microsoft’s New Xbox Experience “took a page (or was it a book?) Top-down from Sony, from left to right the Emmy-winning XrossMediaBar PlayStation 3 interface. According to Reg Hardware, it seems that Sony is about to return the approval of the restructuring of its PlayStation Network Interface “in the line of Xbox LIVE.”

Consider this home des (or rather the de facto ghostly chorus of “sources familiar with the new look”) and as to all claims, thinking possibly just magic, but Reg Hardware says it is “learned” that Sony is planning a major rethink PSN interface. The premise? The PSN text tends to be a failure, so Sony planning to make it more “image driven”, with reference to both Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Valve’s Steam.

The new image is described by Reg Hardware informant (s) as “an aesthetic design with logically marked sections and lists of agenda.” That would certainly be a switch. The batteries of the current great navigable interface full of text buttons on the left screen and add the variable-size images (including waterways) in the remaining two thirds of the screens. Simple? Maybe. Elegant and intuitive? Maybe not.

It seems that Sony is taking a cue from Google search as personalities as well, with an angle of new live search, where results are shown in real time as text you input. Apparently complemented with new movie and gaming sections of that work “IMDB-style”, allowing you to drill in the products attributes playing as “actor” and “director” or “editor” and “developer.” Sony also plans a “deals of the week” section and look overwhelming planning to exchange electric blue of PSN “ultra bright colors” on a black background.

When? Who knows? Reg Hardware references PlayStation 4 is supposed to debut next year Kinect, such as motion detection, a rumor so ridiculous that it hardly deserves mention. Sony has repeatedly said that a new PlayStation will not happen for years. Step would be foolish to break plenty of assistance to developers now absent only to thwart Nintendo or create a clone of Kinect. Maybe he’s planning a new iteration of the PS3, or is I coming here a new version of the PlayStation Eye can capture 3D motion. But the chances we’ll see something like PS4 next year are almost zero.

PSN Back Down

May 16, 2011 by · Comments Off on PSN Back Down 

PSN Back DownPSN Back Down, Sony may have more work to do to start service to the PlayStation Network. The giant entertainment and electronics, announced today that its entire portfolio of online gaming, gambling forums and web sites back online today. After service resumed, however, users began to complain that no active Twitter long before it was available again.

“Playstation Network was backed up for about 10 minutes before going back for maintenance,” Tom tweeted Cranfield. “Good job Sony! “Playstation Network is back down servers seem to have crashed,” said Lee Fraser of Manchester, England, said in a Twitter message. Sony PlayStationEU twitter power user asked to be patient. “Please bear with us as we continue working to restore # PSN. We are experiencing very heavy traffic,” the source said.

Sony later announced a planned shutdown of its network services. “We expereiencing [sic] a heavy burden of resetting passwords and will be turning off the service for 30 minutes to clear the queue”, the company announced on its Web site Twitter. The service has been offline for almost four weeks after several of Sony’s servers were attacked between 17 April and 19 April, leading to exposure of personal data of more than 100 million customers who signed up for PlayStation Network, Qriocity, and Sony Online. Networks – used to download and play games, movies and music – were mysteriously unavailable for nearly a week before Sony revealed the intrusion. The company has said repeatedly that there is no evidence that the credit card information was stolen.

Sony said its service network that is available at the same time strengthened its security and announced earlier this week that it planned to restore “in the coming days.” The company still has not identified the perpetrator behind the security breach is the second largest in U.S. history, but has hinted that he believes the activist group Anonymous hackers may have been behind the violation.

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