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Vaizey on PSN hack: "It's a huge issue

Ed Vaizey, minister for culture, communications and creative industries, has declared the PlayStation Network hack that has rocked Sony a "huge issue", and called on the console manufacturer and other companies to prioritise data protection.

Independent watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is in contact with Sony to determine whether it was in breach of the Data Protection Act. If Sony is found to have acted improperly, it could be fined up to half a million pounds.

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MoreRPG5530d ago

ii agree data protection should be the number one priority

Biggest5530d ago

It should be for EVERY company. How many times will Facebook have their users profiles stolen and posted on fake dating websites before companies realize that data protection isn't a one-time program? Constant updates and tests are needed.

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VonBraunschweigg5530d ago

Ofcourse dataprotection is important, but VonBraunschweigg, consumer of shooters, racers and creative gameplay declares he just wants PSN back asap and that people should stop bitching about possible costs and whatever. Especially Capcom, if your business model is so depending on the network of another company but you haven't anticipated downtime, you're just plain stupid.

mastiffchild5530d ago

Also for the Conservative Govt to say ANYTHING about gaming related issues is very rich considering they took away all the funding the previous lot had in place to try and support the industry in the UK(where we regularly punch well above our weight for a sodding change).France and Canada,(France for Gods sake!)have, among many others, announced tax breaks and incentives for developers and the like, we had so,mething simalr in place, they scrapped it yet NBOW he wants to batter sony while ignoring the hackers?

all he smells, is a possible incoming fine. It's all they care about-effing pocket money. Sod you, you Tory shitbag. When the last dev left in the UK shuts down because they can all get better jobs overseas and the country no longer makes a penny from the industry(and we are the third largest single nation market in the World)how big will your half a million look(even if Sony get found guilty-which they won't)-Christ, how stupid will YOU look for a second "brain drain" and a UK Govt once again missing the point of a new industry?

Sick of our country and it's insistence on government "experts" talking about things they either have no interest or no knowledge in. We HAD decided to support the one industry where we were doing better than we could expect but this man helped pull the rug out from under gaming in the UK as a money making concern. Why should we pay any attention to him at all? They won't be happy until countries as wealthy and powerful as Uganda(no offense chaps)have more say over games than we do.

Why don't we see the UK bods criticising their US counterparts whenever the Pentagon gets hacked? No, we just help them extradite the mentally deranged guy who did it.Why can't we help Sony catch the guys who hacked them? More double standards.

beavis4play5530d ago

exactly. and, your last paragraph was PERFECTLY written. bubbles!

stuntman_mike5530d ago

the government in the UK are a bunch of f**king hypocrites and ponce's. how oblivious they are to modern technologies is amazing im sure they still need to put Cole in their mobile phones to keep them running.
gaming is one of the biggest industries on the planet and our devs in the UK are top notch, not to support them is imbecilic as the funds it would generate for us would pay of the bankers effing mess (and probably line the MPs pockets too.).

AliC5530d ago (Edited 5530d ago )

If this idiot is worried about the Data Protection Act, we all better close our Facebook accounts now.

mastiffchild5530d ago

Indeed. Thing is, he's a twat.

Tyre5530d ago (Edited 5530d ago )

The thing is that he should sue Facebook instead of Sony...Sony was breached (in there WAS some protection) the dataloss wasn't deliberate, but Facebook DELIBERATELY leakes the most private information to dubious companies via 100.000 apps including peoples e-mail account passwords. Double standards people...

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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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Takwin3422d 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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Godmars2905867d ago

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

Demons Souls5867d ago

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

Godmars2905867d ago (Edited 5867d 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.

ClownBelt5867d 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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Tripl3seis5867d ago

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

Jack-Pyro5867d 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.

Anon73495867d 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.

RedDevils5867d ago

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

ThanatosDMC5867d 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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Bismarn3458d 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