Official PlayStation 3 Thread

[MechDeus]

It's okay. I just want to electrocute some people in a sandbox game.

[kedawa]

Do new accounts get the freebies too?
I don't have a PS3 but I want free stuff in case I get one someday.

[James]

Infamous and Dead Nation for me. Those are the only two I don't have. I'll take a pass on the PSP stuff just because there's nothing on there I care about.

James

[bbobb]

I hear pursuit force is supposed to be fun.

[Cheebs]

Do new accounts get the freebies too?
I don't have a PS3 but I want free stuff in case I get one someday.

No, they have to personally harm you before they'll give you free stuff. Go to thier headquarters and see if you can get an intern to kick you in the nuts or something. That might be worth a download.

[MechDeus]

Johnny Nighttrain got kicked in the balls and won a game. It works!

[Frogacuda]

How does the Welcome Home stuff work? Or is it just an upcoming thing that isn't available yet?

[Shin Johnpv]

How does the Welcome Home stuff work? Or is it just an upcoming thing that isn't available yet?

This package will be made available to all existing registered PlayStation Network and Qriocity users in North America (US and Canada), and will be made available shortly after we have fully restored the service. More specific details about these offers and eligibility requirements will be posted as the services go live.

Reading is fundamental.

[Advocate]

Oh wow.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/18/ps...potential-exp/

Call it another "hiccup" in Sony's bumpy road to getting the PlayStation Network back up and running, securely: The company has disabled PSN sign-in access on its PlayStation-related websites for "essential maintenance" purposes.

"Clarification: this maintenance doesn't affect PSN on consoles," tweeted PlayStation Blog EU this morning, "only the website you click through to from the password change email." A follow-up tweet added, "We'll let you know as soon as the landing page is back online."

Although Sony has yet to specify the reason for the maintenance outage, the action follows users' discovery of a potential exploit of the PSN password change function on Sony's websites. UK gaming news site Nyleveia was the first to sound the alarm when it warned, "A new hack is currently doing the rounds in dark corners of the internet that allows the attacker the ability to change your password using only your account's email and date of birth."

In actuality, it was not so much a "hack" as it was a critical oversight by Sony, which had not changed the PSN password reset method on its websites when it began to partially relaunch the service last weekend. Any website user, nefarious or not, needed only to provide a PSN account's associated email address and the account holder's date of birth to change the password -- information that was stolen by hackers during the PSN breach last month.

Needless to say, if you have received an email confirming your PSN password has been changed (and you didn't change it yourself), you should contact Sony. For now, the password reset function has been disabled on Sony's websites.

"Unfortunately this also means that those who are still trying to change their password via Playstation.com or Qriocity.com will be unable to do so for the time being," Sony said in a statement posted by Eurogamer. "This is due to essential maintenance and at present it is unclear how long this will take."

[MechDeus]