PlayStation Down!

Hacked and Down.

I've been on holiday this last week but I didn't even need the internet to hear about this story. The first I heard about PSN being down was on Radio 1, the UK's most listened to radio station, it was the top story for a day on their news segment. When something gaming related is on national radio you know it's quite serious.

To say this was a bad week for Sony would be the understatement of the year, the PSN network has been down for almost a week and reports say its could be Tuesday until it is fixed not only do Sony have to put up with the wrath of PS3 owners but now also government organizations looking at taking legal action for not keeping peoples personal data safe.

Portal 2 PS3 sales affected by PSN downtime.

PSN being down has effected one game in-particular Portal 2, being released just before the network went down players can't play online but they also can't use the integrated Steam that allows players to talk and play with people on both PC and mac. This problem is tipped as one of the reasons for Portal 2 not selling as well on PS3 as on the Xbox 360.

PSN is expected to be back online on Tuesday, PS3 owners will be hoping it is and no serious damage as been caused, for Sony the story will be far from over.

       

Sonic Generations!

2 Different generations 2 different gameplay mechanics.

Sonic is game franchise that as pretty much has just declined over the years countless attempts to reboot the franchise have fallen flat with games such as sonic unleashed and Sonic colors for the wii getting mediocre review scores.

Sega is yet again trying to reboot Sonic with Sonic Generations, the main hook to the game is being able to play the old school style of sonic with super fast side scrolling gameplay but also the added function of being able to play as the modern Sonic with levels in 3D much like the Sonic Adventurer games. The concept sounds good but will Sega be able to pull of a great Sonic game, something that they have been able to achieve for years. Mega64 don't think so and have made a video about it so don't get your hopes up to high.

     

If your interested to see what the game may look like have a look at the trailer below you might be pleasantly surprised or maybe not seeing as it looks like every other sonic trailer, although the games is looking very nice and there is a good choice of music for the trailer. 

 

What is your favorite sonic game and what do you think of the new game trailer, leave your comments below.

Xbox Rewards!

If you didn't already know Xbox.com have started a reward system to thank their uses, although they don't seem to reward us that much as there is almost no advertising on the service. The rewards are basically just Microsoft points but they don't come free and are quite hard to come by for example I have had a Xbox rewards account since December in that time I have only gained 100ms points and that was by answering one survey every month that gained me 20ms each time.

Now that I have 100points they can then be transferred to my Xbox live account but it may take up-to a month for the transfer. They're other ways you can earn points but these involve buying certain things of the market place so really it's more of a discount there are also daily competitions to win ms points by answering gaming trivia. Although the service in still in it's early stages it is still well worth signing up for any Xbox gamer. Click below to go to the site.

http://rewards.xbox.com/      

Street Fighter X Tekken

Street Fighter X Tekken was announced a while ago and since then there hasn't been allot of news some gameplay and a new trailer a couple of weeks ago. Now some of the characters that are going to feature in the in the game have been announced these are pretty obvious such as Ken, Ryu, King and Kazuya but if you wanna see the full list click here and below is the most recent trailer for the game.

Xbox Live Deals!

Today there is a number of deals for one day only on great xbox live games such as Limbo, and Castle Crashers and Shadow Complex a game that I would definitely recommend to any Xbox owner, so get buying. If you need to buy points quick then you can buy them directly off the xbox dashboard or shopto.com offers instant codes of their website.

Click below to check out the deals:

http://majornelson.com/2011/04/15/mgs-one-day-sale/

Portal 2 Comic

With Portal 2 just around the corner valve have released a comic very similar to what they did with the Sacrifice Comic. The comic is called Portal2: Lab Rat which tells the story of the first game from the eyes of a sinwho wrote all that stuff on the walls. It also reveals what happens at the end of the first game well worth a read.

Click below to read:

http://www.thinkwithportals.com/comic/

Forza 4 Trailer

Forza 4 got a new trailer and they don't seem to be holding back on the details, maybe its because its a leaked video for internal use =).