Summary of the PSN Hacks

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PSN Restoration in the 'Final Stages'

PlayStation Network will be returning soon. Sony said today internal testing of its new system is in the final stages. The company did not provide an window for when PSN will be operational, however. Sony said last month that certain PSN services would go live during the first week of May.

"Today our global network and security teams at Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment began the final stages of internal testing of the new system, an important step towards restoring PlayStation Network and Qriocity services,"..

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Upcoming PS3 Games

Infamous 2

Release Date: TBA 2011
Genre: Third-Person Action
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Sucker Punch
Exclusively on: PlayStation 3

Infamous 2 opens in Empire City as a massive explosion rips through the town signaling the birth of a new evil. Nearly escaping death by the dark entity known as The Beast, Cole flees the city. Upon leaving, Cole discovers that The Beast has destroyed Empire City and is heading down the coast annihilating everything in its path.

In an effort to stop The Beast from destroying mankind, Cole heads to New Marais in search of a scientist who is believed to hold the key to defeating this dark entity..

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Resistance 3

Release Date: September 6, 2011
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Insomniac Games
Online Play: 16 Versus/ 2 Co-op
Local Play: 2 Co-op
Exclusively on: PlayStation 3

America is lost. Four years after the epic conclusion of Resistance 2, dishonorably discharged Sentinel Joseph Capelli is in hiding from the invading Chimeran menace with a pocket of survivors, including his new wife and young son. But when Dr. Fyodor Malikov arrives with a desperate plan, he sets into motions the events of Resistance 3, the third installment in the popular full-featured first-person shooter series. Resistance 3 is created by critically-acclaimed developer Insomniac Games exclusively for the PlayStation 3 system.

Set in a brutal, alternate 1950s universe, America has been successfully conquered and destroyed by the deadly Chimeran race..

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Duke Nukem Forever

 

Release Date: June 10, 2011

Genre: First-Person Shooter
Publisher: 2K Games
Developer/Co-Developer: Gearbox Software / 3D Realms
Also on: GCN, PC, X360

 

Put on your sunglasses and prepare to step into the boots of Duke Nukem, whose legend has reached epic proportions in the years since his last adventure. The alien hordes are back and only Duke can save the world, again. Pig cops, alien shrink rays and enormous alien bosses won't stop our hero from accomplishing his one and only goal: to save the world, save the babes and to be a bad-ass while doing it.

 

The King of All Shooters is back with over-the-top weapons, massive aliens and unprecedented levels of interactivity...

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Ubisoft Officially Reveals Assassin's Creed Revelations

Today Ubisoft revealed the first details about the fourth game to appear under the Assassin's Creed header. While the new name was outed last week, today we learn the first details about where the game will take us.

In Assassin's Creed Revelations, Ezio Auditore will travel to Constantinople, in the footsteps of Altair, in order to further unravel the mystery between the Templars and the Assassins.

Revelations also brings back the multiplayer experience first introduced in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood ..

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Dead Island

Release Date: TBA 2011
Genre: First-Person Action
Publisher: Deep Silver
Developer: Techland (Poland)
Online Play: 4 Co-op
Also on: PC, PS3

The island of Banoi is a lush, tropical paradise in the South Pacific where its flagship Royal Palms Resort serves as the ultimate getaway for vacationers with money to burn. However, all good things must soon come to an end – and the picturesque resort falls into madness, carnage and chaos after a mysterious and contagious zombie outbreak claims its once peaceful atmosphere. Cut off from the rest of the world, only four individuals who strangely find themselves immune to zombification have the power to protect the remaining survivors from the horrors of the island, to discover what’s really going on and find a way to escape before their own fatal ends

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Sony answers Congress' questions, details PSN attack

Sony has now officially confirmed that all 77 million PSN accounts had data stolen from them.

Yesterday, Sony said it would answer a list of detailed questions presented by a US Congressional subcommittee looking into the PlayStation Network outage and data leak. Today, the company offered up its answers, which gave a detailed timeline of the data breach and subsequent downtime resulting from the cyberattack. Unfortunately, one of the responses confirmed the worst-case scenario--that all 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity service accounts had data stolen from them.

In a letter sent to the subcommittee--which can be viewed in its entirety here--Sony Computer Entertainment America chairman and Sony Corp. executive vice president Kaz Hirai offered a detailed timeline of the aforementioned attack. The saga began at 4:15 p.m. PDT on April 19, when employees of Sony Network Entertainment America, which took over PSN operations in March, noticed that "certain systems were rebooting when they were not scheduled to do so."...

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Brink

Release Date: May 13, 2011
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Splash Damage
Also on: PS3, PC
A man-made floating city called the Ark, made up of hundreds of separate floating islands, is on the brink of all-out civil war. Originally built as an experimental self-sufficient and 100% "green" habitat, the reported rapid rise of the Earth's oceans has forced the Ark to become a refuge for humanity. With 25 years of social unrest, the inhabitants of the Ark have reached their breaking point. It's up to you to decide the future of the Ark and the human race.

Brink is an immersive shooter that blends single-player, co-op, and multiplayer gameplay into one seamless experience, allowing you to develop your character across all modes of play. You decide the role you want to assume in the world of BRINK as you fight to save yourself and mankind's last refuge for humanity. Brink offers a compelling mix of dynamic battlefields, extensive customization options, and an innovative control system.

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Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception

Release Date: November 1, 2011
Exclusively on: PlayStation 3
Genre: Third-Person Action Adventure
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: Naughty Dog Software


Fortune hunter Nathan Drake is catapulted headlong into an adventure that takes him on a daring trek into the heart of the Arabian Desert in a search for the fabled "Atlantis of the Sands." This journey pits him and his mentor Victor Sullivan against the occult treachery of a shadowy clandestine organization and its ruthless leader. When the terrible secrets of this lost city are unearthed, Drake's quest descends into a desperate bid for survival that strains the limits of his endurance and forces him to confront his deepest fears.
 

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Gears of war 3 multiplayer gameplay

The Xbox 360 exclusive shooter Gears of War 3 multiplayer is heating up! Watch this short but sweet gameplay clip from the upcoming beta.

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Upcoming Xbox 360 Games

Release Date: September 20, 2011

Exclusively on: Xbox 360

Genre: Third-Person Shooter

Publisher: Microsoft

Developer: Epic Games

 

Gears of War 3 is the spectacular conclusion to one of the most memorable and celebrated sagas in video games.

In Gears of War 3, fight on as Marcus Fenix, the grizzled war hero and leader of Delta Squad. Eighteen months after the fall of the last human city, the war against the Locust rages on.

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Published by: Rockstar Games

Developed by: Team Bondi

Genre: Adventure

Release Date:

• UK: Jun 30, 2011
• Australia: May 20, 2011
• Germany: May 20, 2011
• Japan: Jun 30, 2011
• US: May 17, 2011

Set amid the violence and corruption of post-World War II Los Angeles, L.A. Noire is a crime thriller that seamlessly blends crime-solving, clue-finding, car chases and shoot-outs with revolutionary new interrogation-based gameplay.

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Release Date: November 11, 2011
Genre: RPG
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
This is the fifth entry in the epic RPG franchise, following up on blockbuster The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

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