Sony has decided to ditch the accounts part of its PlayStation Network, with all user data now part of the  renamed "Sony Entertainment Network accounts" or "SEN accounts" group.

Contrary to reports elsewhere on the net however, the change...

The PlayStation Network has been hacked again. A post on the Sony Europe blog by Philip Reitinger, the VP and chief information security officer for Sony Group points to "another source not from our networks", attempting to test sign-in IDs and passwords...

"Homeward bound, I wish I was homeward bound,"
Home, where my thoughts escape, at home, where my music's playin',
Home, where my love lies waitin' silently for me."

If those words make you think of the PlayStation Network's Home,...

Sony has announced a new gaming incentive for pre-orders and purchases of select titles made through the PSN.

The PlayStation Network Play offers will see a free gift consisting of things like unlockable characters granted when purchases are...

Sony has confirmed the existence of the PSN Pass scheme, after a picture of the Resistance 3 box sporting its moniker circulated online.

The PSN Pass will be game specific and will allow people who have brought original copies of PS3 games,...

Still recovering from his 20th birthday celebrations this morning and already Sonic has turned up on the PSN and Xbox Live.

The Sonic Generations demo is out on both of the consoles and should be available to download as we speak. The download...

Sony continues to seek forgiveness from its online customers, with another gesture aimed at getting PSN users back onside.

The latest deal is a 180 free trial to the Q Music Unlimited on PS3 (yep, Q - we're not sure if this means that Sony...

A Spanish police statement has been released detailing 3 suspects who have been arrested in connection with a Sony hacking case.

Also connected to the hackers, who were identified as members of anonymous, was cyber-attacks on Spanish banks,...

Before you rush to your PlayStations and check the PSN is still running, fear not, the latest Sony hack was targeted at their movies site.

Attributed to notorious hacking outfit Lulzsec, Sony Pictures Entertainment has had its website interfered...

The PlayStation Network has been restored... Almost. A global restoration has started and many are able to access the PlayStation Store and download games, use vouchers and fiddle with all the shenanigans they used to be able to before the great and...

With Computex currently in full swing in Taiwan, the Pocket-lint team look at the impact that the Asus PadFone will have on an already packed tablet market. And discuss whether or not they'll ever use Google Wallet to pay for stuff, or are they already...

All services on the PlayStation Network are finally going to be restored by the end of the week (Friday 3 June)... Unless you live in Japan, Hong Kong or South Korea that is.

European and PAL regions, the Americas and the rest of Asia will...

Sony's recent woes now have a financial value attached to them - $3.2 billion.

That's the figure that's being touted by the Japanese electronics giant as its forecast result for its annual report, with $170 million being directly linked to...

Sony has denied that its online PlayStation Network sign-in was suspended due to a new attack. Instead, it claimed that the password reset service was temporarily taken down to fix a URL exploit in the system.

Previously, it was reported around...

Just as Sony was gradually restoring services, part of the PlayStation Network has been taken down again. This is because the password reset system can be compromised.

Sign-in is now unavailable on a majority of SCE's websites, including PlayStation.com...