Playstation

Maybe all of that red liquidy stuff is just Tropical Punch Kool-Aid.

Sony posts two new videos showing off its PS Vita handheld gamer, set for release in 2012.

I normally don't talk about commercials in this space, but I'll make an exception for this Sony PlayStation ad, which is brilliant. In the ad, a bunch of video game characters are in a bar, just hanging out talking about their experiences, and then honoring "Michael", the person who controls them all.

Sony expects the hack of the PlayStation Network and will cost it ¥14 billion (US$170 million) this financial year, it said Monday.

We're officially three weeks into the PSN fiasco today, with only vague timeframes for restoration—long enough for disgruntled developers to start speaking out. We’ve focused on how the outage affects players (no Portal 2 co-op, no Mortal Kombat match-ups, etc.) but—partly because we expected the service back already—overflown its impact on the folks whose financial well-being is tied directly to PSN uptime.

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Sony, and I suspect it’s about to get much much worse.

Can a chief information security officer (CISO) help prevent the kind of massive data breach that occurred in the Sony PlayStation network breach last month in which attackers grabbed personal information on an estimated 77 million customers of the PlayStation and Qriocity online games?

Ten days after the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services were taken offline, Sony executives including the head of its gaming division apologized on Sunday for the potential loss of personal information on millions of customers.

Anonymous is at it again, this time attacking Sony and its playstation.com site for gamers, promising to publish personal details about Sony executives online and to unleash a triple wave of botnets against company sites.

Photos and videos of an alleged PlayStation phone from Sony Ericsson have been steadily trickling through over the past few weeks, shedding light on the specifications and capabilities of the device. Sony Ericsson is expected to introduce a PlayStation-branded smartphone running Google's Android mobile operating system in February, and tech blog Engagdet had a string of leaks on the device lately.

All week long the Playstation Phone (as well as the PSP2) has been in the news. Let's recap the story and see if we've learned anything new.

Sony was the last of the big three to deliver its press conference and the one event that felt like a real press conference for the most part. Lots of talk about new technologies and partnerships, but not a lot of sizzle about the games.