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Will Handheld Gaming Consoles Make A Comeback With The Playstation Vita?

Posted 02.23.2012

Gamers, rejoice! Sony PlayStation unleashed its newest hand-held video game console, the PS Vita, in-store and online yesterday. It's a major upgrade ...

Sony PlayStation Vita Coming To U.S.

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 04.21.2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Sony is intensifying its push in handheld gaming with a gadget aimed at hardcore players looking for something with a bit more punch...

Smithsonian Details 'Art Of Video Games' Exhibit

AP | Posted 03.19.2012

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian American Art Museum is announcing details of its first major exhibit exploring the art and evolution of video games...

Sony Gears Up For Biggest Product Release In 5 Years

AP | By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA | Posted 12.15.2011

TOKYO -- Sony's long-awaited PlayStation Vita portable game machine hits stores in Japan on Saturday, with the company predicting brisk sales even tho...

Sony Hit By Another Massive Hack Attack

AP | By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA | Posted 12.12.2011

TOKYO -- Sony said Wednesday intruders staged a massive attempt to access user accounts on its PlayStation Network and other online entertainment serv...

House Party with Alexander Wang

Melissa Berkelhammer | Posted 11.14.2011

Melissa Berkelhammer

Alexander Wang's full frontal assault on the senses manifested itself in an all out bacchanal after show party at Pier 40 on Saturday night. Each gues...

Are You Buying Toys That Stunt Your Child's Brain?

Fran Lasker | Posted 10.03.2011

Fran Lasker

The window for creativity that is open during childhood is vital to the development of the person, so give it plenty of thought before you plop your child down with an electronic toy that totally consumes him for hours and turns him into a zombie.

PlayStation Network Down For Maintenance

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 09.05.2011

Sony's PlayStation Network went down briefly on Tuesday, but it was apparently just for maintenance. According to PlayStation Universe, the work w...

The Faithful Shopper: Great Gadgets

Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 08.16.2011

Faith Hope Consolo

Remember when a day at the beach meant getting away from it all, including the phone? I don't either. While I'm all for disconnecting, that definitely doesn't mean leaving any of my beloved electronics behind.

E3: Microsoft and Sony Preview

Turnstyle | Posted 08.03.2011

Turnstyle

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

Sony's PlayStation Network Store Back Online

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 08.02.2011

After suffering a cyber attack that compromised information belonging to over 100 million users and left Sony's PlayStation Network offline, Sony anno...

Sony's PlayStation Store Back Online

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 08.02.2011

After suffering a cyber attack that compromised information belonging to over 100 million users and left Sony's PlayStation Network offline, Sony anno...

Sony Promises All PlayStation Services Will Be Working Soon

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 07.31.2011

More than a month since Sony announced that attackers had infiltrated its PlayStation Network servers and compromised personal information belonging t...

Sony Battles New Hacks

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 07.20.2011

About a month after Sony's PlayStation Network was hacked, exposing the account information of 100 million users, Sony faces a series of smaller hacks...

New PlayStation Network Problem Exposed

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 07.18.2011

UPDATE: Sony has acknowledged the PlayStation network exploit. In a blog post, the company wrote, We temporarily took down the PSN and Qriocity pas...

Japan Stalls PlayStation Network Relaunch

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 07.16.2011

Over the weekend, Sony began restoring service to the PlayStation Network following an unprecedented data breach that exposed the personal information...

PlayStation Network Reportedly Goes Down--Already?

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 07.15.2011

After a massive global outage, Sony began restoring service to the PlayStation Network on Sunday. However, some are reporting that the PSN is already ...

Amy Lee

Sony PlayStation Network Gets Restored, But Uncertainty Lingers Over The Extent Of The Breach

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 07.15.2011

Sony has finally begun to restore access to the PlayStation Network, after a massive security breach that exposed of the personal information of over ...

Sony Begins Restoring PlayStation Network

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 07.14.2011

Following a data breach that exposed the personal information of 100 million users and shut down access to the PlayStation Network for weeks, Sony has...

Sony: PlayStation Network Back Online By End Of May

AP | Posted 07.10.2011

TOKYO -- Sony said Tuesday it aims to fully restore its PlayStation Network, shut down after a massive security breach affecting over 100 million onli...

Peter S. Goodman

False Comfort: Blaming Sony for Cyber-Vulnerability Masks Threat

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 07.09.2011

The Sony data hack and the predictable pursuit of villains carries a dose of false comfort, implicitly affirming the assumption that someone must have fouled up to create such a menace to privacy and commerce; someone must have failed in a readily identifiable way, because this surely can't be the ordinary state of events. But the blame narrative masks an unsettling question: What if Sony did the best it could to protect itself, and the pirates still won?

Sony: Hackers Posted Stolen Data Online

Reuters | Posted 07.06.2011

TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony said on Saturday it had removed off the Internet the personal details of 2,500 people that had been stolen by hackers and...

Saki Knafo

Sony PlayStation Network Hack Just The Beginning Of Giant Data Thefts: Experts

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 07.06.2011

NEW YORK -- Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony, apologized to customers Thursday for the "inconvenience and concern" caused by an attack on Sony's compu...

Sony Explains PlayStation Network Hack To Congress

AP | By JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 07.04.2011

WASHINGTON -- The data breach that hit Sony's PlayStation Network resulted from a "very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated cri...

Sony Implicates Anonymous In PlayStation Network Hack

Posted 07.04.2011

By Diane Bartz and Jim Finkle WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - Sony Corp blamed the well-known Internet vigilante group Anonymous for indirectly allo...