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PSN Outage - One of the biggest hacks in history?

MMGN writes: Hacking has over the years turned into somewhat of a resume for talented young criminals. With an act of such notoriety tends to come reward of employment, as those that illegally access private information and data -- an act that is arguably on level terms with bank robbery, a crime often punishable with life in jail in North America -- are handed lucrative positions in million- and billion-dollar organizations.

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Shok4721d ago

Oh my God, let this topic die already. Seriously. How man articles do we need on this?

no_more_heroes4721d ago (Edited 4721d ago )

that's N4G for ya: beat a horse to death, set it on fire, spit on it, then commit necrophilia.

I_find_it_funny4721d ago (Edited 4721d ago )

some websites are kinda late to get hits on this

HolyOrangeCows4720d ago

Biggest hacks in history? They may have gotten into one of the biggest networks to get it shut down, but this is nothing in comparison to several hacks that have ACTUALLY led to thousands of people losing millions of dollars in total.

JD_Shadow4721d ago

If you keep commenting on them to bitch about why we have them...then you will see a lot MORE of them!

Thing is, people will never learn how this site's systems work. Probably still don't realize that that's how HipHopGamer got so popular.

Shok4721d ago

Um, no, me commenting on these is not encouraging other sites to write about it. Now if I clicked "Read full story" along with a bnuch of other people and give the sites hits, then yea, that would keep them goin.

JD_Shadow4721d ago

You don't get the point of why I even said that!

You take the time to comment, which in turn drives up the temp on the article. It doesn't matter what the comment IS, just that you commented at all. In other words, you clicked the front page link to get this far, then felt compelled to comment. That's all they need.

Shok4720d ago

It drives up the temp........ok? Commenting is not a hit for the site. You're not even making a point here dude.

There was nothing wrong with my comment, there's no reason for you to try to come out and TRY be a smartass about it. No reason for it.

And you really think they keep writing these articles just to read some comments on N4G? No. They're trying to get site hits, it's as simple as that dude. The only person who says things to read comments on N4G is Cliffy B lol.

Cat4720d ago

Actually, darkpower is correct.

Factors for heat:
a. unique views
b. unique clicks
c. comments
d. time

I usually assume people are familiar with a-c. The last one (time) is often overlooked- if you have 200 comments, clicks and views over a week, that story is not going to have nearly the same heat as one that has half as many comments, clicks and views in one day.

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Silly gameAr4721d ago

Oh, the author didn't catch the other 100 articles about this possibly being the second largest hack in history? I'm guessing he did, but wanted to remind everyone that the PSN was hacked a few weeks ago. Let it go.

Tommykrem4721d ago (Edited 4721d ago )

Interesting read, there's actually a lot of information about other things than the PSN hack itself here. If it wasn't I'd probably have closed my lap-top because I am TIRED of hearing about PSN being offline, PlayStation Store being closed, Anonymous being legion and anything related to this. I didn't sign up for this crap, all I ever wanted was to sign in.

...And maybe trade cars in GT5

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2624d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905069d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5069d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905069d ago (Edited 5069d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5069d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5069d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5069d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495069d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5069d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5069d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2660d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One