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...

"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 grabbed themselves a very special Pwnie award at this year's Black Hat security conference in Caesars Palace Las Vegas. The company scooped the prize for the PlayStation Network hack and lengthy service outage that ensued. 

The Pwnies...

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,...

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,...

Sony Computer Entertainment America’s president Jack Tretton has openly apologised for the recent network outage of the PlayStation Network.

In a humble apology to gamers, developers, and retailers the Sony exec said he had to address...

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...

Social media sites have been buzzing this morning after hackers posted a story on PBS NewsHour which alleged that rapper Tupac was alive and well in New Zealand.

The story survived about an hour on the PBS site before it was removed by IT workers....

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...

Sony has launched a "Welcome Back" customer appreciation program for disgruntled PlayStation Network and Qriocity subscribers who were registered prior to 20 April 2011 and have had to wait for their services to be restored, and it includes free games.

In...