Playstation network

[aird 3,774]

Apparently the games are:

LittleBigPlanet

Infamous

Wipeout HD/Fury

Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty

Dead Nation

LBP and Infamous for me.

[Mor3los_1 3,672]

Hope not, i have the first 3 games, not much of a choice

[Jelavic. 13]

Apparently the games are:

LittleBigPlanet

Infamous

Wipeout HD/Fury

Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty

Dead Nation

Them two for me.

[Jelavic. 13]

Oh, and when do we get these?

[Grindhouse 97]

Where's the source about these free games?

[CM72 16]

Where's the source about these free games?

PM MathewIsHere

[aird 3,774]

Now that certain PSN services have been restored and you’re once again enjoying online gaming, it seems a good time to confirm what is being offered as part of the Welcome Back programme.

Once we restore PlayStation Store, which will be just a little while longer, you will have the opportunity to claim your Welcome Back gifts. Please note that the Welcome Back programme is only available for those countries with access to PlayStation Store*.

All existing PlayStation Network members will be able to access the following from PlayStation Store*:

Two PS3 games from the following list:

LittleBigPlanet

Infamous*

Wipeout HD/Fury

Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty

Dead Nation*

For those with PSP accounts, you will also be eligible to download two PSP games from the following list:

LittleBigPlanet PSP

ModNation PSP

Pursuit Force

Killzone Liberation*

- 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PS Plus subscribers*

- Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will be given 60 days free subscription.

- For existing Music Unlimited subscribers, you will be given 30 days free subscription.

- We are working on a Welcome Back offer in PlayStation Home and will share that when it is confirmed.

I would like to thank all of the developers and publishers involved in this programme for their support in making this happen. We certainly couldn’t have done it without you.

You will be able to access this content once PlayStation Store comes back online and we are doing everything we can to make that happen as soon as possible.

Thank you for your support and keep checking back on the blog for more information.

For eligibility for the welcome back programme consumers must be an account holder on 20 April 2011. Specific details about these offers and eligibility requirements will be posted as the services go live. All existing PSN registrants have 30 days from when the welcome back programme goes live to redeem their content.

For the German market, InFamous and Dead Nation will be replace with Super Stardust HD and Hustle Kings in the selection of PS3 games.

For the German market, Pursuit Force and Killzone Liberation will be replaced with Everybody’s Golf 2 and Buzz Junior Jungle Party in the selection of PSP games. Killzone Liberation will not offer online gameplay functionality.

Access to the 30 days free PS Plus subscription is only available for those countries where PS Plus is offered. You will have access to the PS Plus content planned for May for 30 days. Access to the free games and exclusive features finishes at the end of the 30-day subscription period. Anything you buy with exclusive discounts, dynamic themes and premium avatars are yours to keep forever.

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[MathewIsHere 58]

WHERE IS MY FREE GAME?

And Mathew, how are we gonna get our banter now?

I don't know brother Felt amazing to be playing COD again!

[Grindhouse 97]

Awesome

And there I thought everyone was talking shite lol

[Big Laff's Dodgy Barnett 20]

Shit choice!

[Brian Fantana 28,894]

playstation network? more like....oh aye, it does work.

[Maxo1873 201]

somebody already said wot i said BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[ScottBF2 3,540]

I'm just going to load up my PS3 and get my free games then fuck off back to Xbox land when I'm bored of them.

[Brian Fantana 28,894]

went on last nite for a bit of CoD time.

by god i missed the carnage.

[andy500 463]

Anyone have any idea when the Playstation Store will be back?

[Ace 3,556]

Anyone have any idea when the Playstation Store will be back?

Likely to be end of the month.

[andy500 463]

Likely to be end of the month.

I've traded in all my PS3 games, but I'll probably get Infamous and use up my 1 hour trials of games.

[King_gazza 1,065]

PlayStation Network 'security hole' sparks hacking concerns among users

Sony forced to take down website set up to help users regain access to network after exposure of flaw in password system

Sony's 'security hole' has forced it to take down the website it had set up to help users regain access to the PlayStation Network. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Charles Arthur

guardian.co.uk, Thu 19 May 2011 00.45 BST

When Sony said that its PlayStation Network (PSN) had been hacked in April, potentially releasing the personal details of 77 million people - such as their email address, physical address and date of birth - people understood that restoring the service might be difficult, and that to ensure security they might be asked to change their password.

What users hadn't expected was that Sony would bring the service back up and require them to change their password - but that all you'd need to provide would be an email address and date of birth.

In other words, exactly the details that the hackers putatively already have.

That oversight has forced Sony to take down a website it had set up to help those 77 million access the network, which is still struggling to get back online after weeks out of action.

Sony spokesman Dan Race admitted that there was "a security hole" in the system: "If I had your email and your birth date I could get access to your account," he said.

But he insisted that no hacking had taken place on the website and that PSN account holders can still change their password on their consoles at home.

However, the reaction from web users was obvious: how would Sony know if a hacker had used the details?

In fact at least one did: the gaming news site Nylevia.com, which first discovered the flaw , said it was alerted to the problem after someone got in contact and demonstrated how to do it, using just an account email and associated date of birth.

The site suggested that people should create a new email address that they would not use anywhere else, and switch their PSN account to use that.

The embarrassment comes just a day after Sir Howard Stringer, Sony's chief executive, hit back at critics who said that Sony hadn't moved quickly enough to tell consumers about the security breach in the first place. "This was an unprecedented situation," Stringer told reporters. "Most of these breaches go unreported by companies. 43% [of companies] notify victims within a month. We reported in a week. You're telling me my week wasn't fast enough?"

The attack, considered the biggest in internet history, prompted the Japanese electronics giant to shut down its PlayStation Network and other services for close to a month.

Critics slammed the company for waiting up to a week before telling its customers of the attack and the possible theft of credit card information, prompting lawmakers and state attorneys general to launch investigations.

Two members of the US house of representatives sent a letter to Sony on Tuesday, urging it to respond to questions about its security strategy and reveal more details about the data breach.

In the letter, Mary Bono Mack of California and GK Butterfield of North Carolina said they had contacted Sony on 29 April but none of their questions had been answered by the company. The lawmakers asked Sony to respond to questions by 25 May.

Sony said it expected to face monetary charges from the break-in but was still assessing the damage. "There's a charge for the system being down … a charge for identity theft insurance," Stringer said. "The charges mount up, but they don't add up to a number we can quantify just yet." One expert suggested that costs from the break-in could reach as high as $2bn.

However, Sony executives said there was nothing to support some reports that hackers had used Amazon's servers to launch the attack. Sony has begun restoring parts of the network last weekend in the United States and expects a full recovery in all countries by the end of May.

Sony appears to have become the target for hackers because of its practice of clamping down on customers who meddle with its systems. It sued a famed hacker, George Hotz, earlier this year for copyright infringement and circumventing the PlayStation 3 console's protection schemes. The company settled the charges against Hotz on 11 April. About a week later, Sony's systems were hacked. Hotz, who is well known for "jailbreaking", or unlocking Apple iPhones, said on his blog that he was not involved in the PSN break-in.

Mark Harding, a Maxim Group analyst, said Sony could have employed less severe methods to protect itself from copyright infringement. "There were probably better ways Sony could have done it without being heavy-handed," he said.

Stringer said the attack was likely related to its suit against Hotz but defended Sony's actions. "An act was done that was dangerous to Sony, dangerous to PlayStation and we thought it was a criminal act and we had to protect ourselves."