Sony fired employees before data theft, says the process

Sony fired employees of a unit responsible for the security of your network two weeks prior to the invasion of the great systems of company data by hackers, according to a process to court this week handed. In addition, the company spent a fortune to protect corporate information itself, although it failed to do the same with the data of its customers, the report said.

In the process delivered to the court of San Diego (USA) on Monday (20), a set of customers that Sony claims the company knew what was at great risk of hacker attack after suffering previously, other minor intrusions.

The text also states that the company laid off a "substantial percentage" of its workforce at Sony Online Entertainment, including "several" employees of the network operations center, division responsible for the security of these systems, attributing the claim to a confidential source.

The Japanese company has come under fire since April, when hackers accessed the personal information of 77 million users of the platform PlayStation Network games and multimedia Qriocity. At the time, Sony announced that data from customer credit cards were stolen.

After the incident, Sony also revealed that hackers had stolen data from more than 25 million users of other platform, network PC games Sony Online Entertainment, on May 2.

Sony did not return requests for comment on Thursday (23). 

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Team ICO going into hiding because of you!

If you're planning on infiltrating Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's headquarters to steal an early demo of The Last Guardian, you're going to have to make a slight adjustment to your plans. SCEJ's headquarters will be moving to Sony's main Shinagawa office shortly.

Team ICO head Fumto Ueda made a Tweet today about the move. "Starting next week, TRICO's production base will move to Shinagawa. We're looking forward to a major reformation of our development environment as a video game studio that can take on the world."

Ueda's Tweet came as he'd just finished packing up boxes around his desk. He had to get some help from other people.

Word of Sony Computer Entertainment's plans to move out of its current Aoyama studio first appeared last April (read the story here). According to the initial report from Nikkei, of SCE's 1,400 employees, 1,000 are move to Sony's main Shinagawa office with the remaining staff moving to other buildings in that area.

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E3 2011: SONY's 5 Hours Conference

5 HOURS?! Yeah, rejoice everyone! Our beloved SONY will get a 5 hours conference in E3 2011! What that means, you ask? We are going to get a lot of surprises this time! 

According to official invitations received by videogame journalists, Sony’s conference will commence on 5pm (PST) June 6, and will conclude a record breaking 5 hours later.

What to expect? Let's see now!

Official Apologies for the PSN Outage
It's almost confirmed that SONY will apology for the outage and hacks that recently took place in the PSN. They will likely expand the Welcome-Back program and make us happier! In my Opinion, it was an accident and something that will never happen again.

LOTS OF NGP GAMES and a Official Name
With the Next-Generation Portable confirmed to launch still in 2011, we can expect lots and lots of info about SONY's new toy! We are going to see several games, applications and all kinds of things for the NGP, including the Official Name!

At the NGP Announcement, the following companies confirmed to be developing for the new portable: Acquire, Alvion, AQ Interactive, Arc System Works, Arika, Artdink Corporation, ASCII Media Works, Capcom, Chun Soft, Codemasters Software Company, Crafts & Meister, CyberConnect2, D3 Publisher, Dimps Corporation, Edia, Enterbrain, FromSoftware, Gameloft, Genki, Grasshopper Manufacture, GungHo Online Entertainment, Gust, Hamster Corporation, Hudson Soft, Idea FActory, Index Corporation (Atlus), Irem Software Engineering, Kadokawa Games, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing, Konami Digital Entertainment, Level-5, Marvelous Entertainment, media5 Corporation, Namco Bandai Games, Nihon Falcom Corporation, Nippon Ichi Software, Now Production, Q Entertainment, Sega, SNK Playmore, Spike, Square Enix, SystemSoft Alpha, Tecmo Koei Games, Tomy Company, Tose, Ubisoft, Yuke's, Activision, Capybara Games, Demiurge Studios, Epic Games, Far Sight Studios, Frima, High Voltage Software, Kung Fu Factory, Paramount Digital Entertainment, PopCap Games, Powerhead Games, Trendy Entertainment, Ubisoft, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, 2K Games, 2K Sports, Avalanche Studios, Climax Studios, Codemasters Software Company, Eurocom Developments, Eutechnyx, Exient, Firemint, Gameloft, Gusto Games, Home Entertainment Suppliers, Impromptu Software, Rebellion, Rockstar Games, Sidhe Interactive, Sumo Digital, Team 17 Software, Ubisoft Entertainment, Zen Studios and several others confirmed it later. Keep it in mind that the confirmed developers for Nintendo 3DS are less that 1/3 of this list.

New Innovations and Tech for the PS3
We also can expect the rumored panoramic-view PS3 Glasses and a Update to PS Move to be at least mentioned in this huge event this year. Also, some new PS3 Exclusives might be announced too.

Details and More Games in the PSP Remaster Collection
That will happen. SONY will announced several other games PSP game that will be remaked to the PS3, including God of War Portable Collection and Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker. We can also expect several other series to be Remastered to the PS3 and some new PSP games.
  

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What I expect from SONY PSP Remaster Series for PS3

In case you don't know, SONY announced it's PSP Remaster Series for PS3 - Basically Great PSPs Games released with new textures, extras and in HD! So far, the only confirmed games are Monster Hunter Portable 3rd and God of War Portable Collection (This one via rumors).


But do we really want what games to be re-released? In my case it's far more than that. What do I expect then, you ask? Let's see!


1. Quality Over Quantity


I don't care if they release all the games, but I expect those to have quality and real HD Graphics and Textures and lots of extra content.


2. Good Titles, Not Crap


Monster Hunter Portable 3rd has been a great choice from SONY, but I fear this may be the only one. GOW is a game I can't play because it's not my style. I'll be greedy in this one, and I expect Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Yakuza Tales: Black Panther, .Hack//LINK and Bleach Heat the Soul 7 to name a few.


3. NGP Compatibility

The NGP is getting a release in December, I'm almost sure of this. SONY must put some kind of system that allow us to transfer the Remastered PSP games in our NGP! The NGP is almost a PS3! It's POSSIBLE!


What do you think of this? Any PSP game you want to see in PS3?

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