PSN: Playstation Network Back Online

PSN is Back Online After Hack, Outage

Gamers, rejoice: Playstation Network and Qriocity are back online, almost four weeks after PSN got hacked. PSN users will have to reset their passwords via the Playstation device with which they originally registered, or via the email address linked to their account.

Sony has offered a "Welcome Back" package to smooth down the ruffled feathers of 77 million users who were left without the possibility of pwning strangers in first-person shooters for nearly a month.

All PlayStation Network owners can download two of the following games for free over the next 30 days once the PlayStation Store is back online:

• Dead Nation
• inFAMOUS
• LittleBigPlanet
• Super Stardust HD
• Wipeout HD + Fury

PSP owners can download two of the following games for free over the next 30 days:

• LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
• ModNation Racers
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone Liberation

Music Unlimited customers will get time lost plus 30 days added to their accounts.

Is Sony Doing Enough for Its PSN Users?

 Sony is also offering US users free identity theft monitoring for a year. The same service is offered to users in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Is this enough, though? Any public apology will trigger a call for more responsibility to be taken, and the Playstation Network outage is no different. Should Sony have offered newer games as freebies? More games? Both? Either way, a new game does not equal credit-rating integrity, so there's only so much Sony can do. Users will either trust PSN or they won't; we're betting on the former.

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