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PSN Downtime Due to Portal 2 Exploit?

PSN Downtime Due to Portal 2 Exploit?

Apr 24, 2011

As the Playstation Network downtime rumbles in to another day causing disruption for countless PS3 gamers whispers in the gaming the community are starting to point towards an exploit between Portal 2 and its cross platform functionality via Steam to the Playstation Network being the root of the problem. It would be quite ironic, if true, that a game...

PSN and Amazon Just a Coincidence?

PSN and Amazon Just a Coincidence?

Apr 22, 2011

In a previous post we looked at the current (as of this post – 22nd April 2011) outage of the Playstation Network which is officially explained as ‘Maintenance’. At the same time Amazon Web Services has also been brought down with the explanation there also being… ‘maintenance. Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is the online...

PSN Fails Again

PSN Fails Again

Apr 21, 2011

As a Sony Playstation 3 owner and enthusiast it’s always saddening when something happens to rock the faith in the platform. The outages that have affected the Playstation Network recently (primarily attributed to DDOS attacks by Anonymous in retaliation to the copyright lawsuit made against George Hotz) have caused major disruption to thousands of...