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PlayStation

Sony Says PSN Has Added Three Million Users Since Attack

Howard Stringer, the chief executive of Sony, said at a Berlin electronics show that the PlayStation Network has recovered from this spring’s attack and 23-day outage by adding three million new users in the three months since.

July 10, 2011
PlayStation

PSN Extends Registration For Free ID Protection Until The End Of July

The time to collect your PlayStation Network welcome-back freebies has come and gone — twice, even — but Sony has extended one component. Registration for identity-theft protection will run through July 31, the company’s top spokesman said on PlayStation’s official blog.

May 29, 2011
PlayStation

Oh Yeah … PlayStation Network Is Back Online In Japan

If you’re on the PlayStation Network in Japan, chances are you already know this. Chances are you are also asleep as it’s past 3 a.m. now. But just to make a record of it, PlayStation Network service was restored to Japan, as promised. Here’s Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kazuo Hirai welcoming everyone back.

May 5, 2011
PlayStation

PSN Remains Dark, But You Can Install OtherOS

The right to run Linux on a PS3, enshrined somewhere in the Mayflower Compact, Magna Carta and the Constitution, apparently, has been restored thanks to hackers, your friend and mine. Not that we can play games online, also thanks to hackers. But we can install Linux.

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