The Playstation Network has been a brand name for Sony’s online service since 2006 and has been the subject of controversy, license agreement changes, and free online gaming. Starting February 8th, Sony will be dropping the PSN title and adopting a new name: Sony Entertainment Network. The new name essentially is to allow Sony to … Continue reading “PSN Becomes SEN On Feb. 8th”
Bad news, Playstation 3 users: You’re going to have to make more space on that hard drive for Final Fantasy XI. Square Enix has announced that in February, a patch will be added to Final Fantasy XI that will require more hard drive space on the Playstation 3, but only on specific models. The models … Continue reading “Final Fantasy XI On PS3: Extra 9 Gigabytes of Space”
Even if you hate CCP, even if you have no interest in Eve Online or DUST 514, you have to admit that the very concept of an space ship MMO on the PC interacting in real time with a first person shooter on the Playstation 3 is astounding and exciting. DUST is expected to release … Continue reading “Games To Look Out For: CCP Edition”
Apparently someone is nostalgic for seven months ago when Sony’s services on Playstation 3 and PC were offline for weeks on end after a hacker broke into the database and walked out with a cartload of personal data. Thankfully, in their usual fashion, the Denial of Service group Anonymous has released a video in advance, … Continue reading “Oh Joy, The Sony Hackers Are Back!”
Going into this article, I assumed I’d have trouble lowering my list to eleven items. Truth be told, I actually had more trouble filling this list than I did culling an even larger list. It must be my power of 20/20 hindsight to look at events of the past and think “well that actually didn’t … Continue reading “Eleven Things I Hated About 2011: 2011 Edition”
Going into this article, I assumed I’d have trouble lowering my list to eleven items. Truth be told, I actually had more trouble filling this list than I did culling an even larger list. It must be my power of 20/20 hindsight to look at events of the past and think “well that actually didn’t … Continue reading “Eleven Things I Hated About 2011: 2011 Edition”
Make that one burger, big and juicy. Free To Play: do I need to say? We already know of Star Trek Online and more titles will no doubt follow in its footsteps. Sony Online Entertainment has shifted its development direction to free to play, CCP has DUST 514 coming on to the Playstation 3 and Vita … Continue reading “Predictions for 2012: 2011 Edition”
When Final Fantasy XIV launched in September 2010, it drew a backlash from its userbase the likes of which haven’t been seen since Sony Online Entertainment implemented the Combat Upgrade and New Game Enhancements in Star Wars Galaxies back in 2005. For an MMO, it was one of the most disappointing releases of 2010. The … Continue reading “Most Aggressive Developer of 2011: Square Enix”
We all knew this time would come eventually, when Square Enix would shake off the training wheels and Final Fantasy XIV would transition back to its intended subscription system. Last month, Square announced that billing would start around the time the much anticipated 2.0 update released, around November or December of this year. Today, in … Continue reading “Final Fantasy XIV Billing Starts January 6th”
A title certain to cause confusion among my readers, but I did so to force the few of you who only read the title to read the article itself as well. Despite how some of my fellow MMO journalists have been wording their writing, the Sony database has not been hacked. Rather, Sony announced on … Continue reading “Important: Sony Was Not Hacked, 93K Accounts Compromised”
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