Sony Issues PSN Service Restoration Announcement

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;05&sol;sony-psn-playstation-network1&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2596" title&equals;"sony-psn-playstation-network" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;05&sol;sony-psn-playstation-network1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"470" height&equals;"270" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Update&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>PSN service restoration will begin on Sunday in the Americas&comma; Europe&comma; Australia&comma; New Zealand&comma; and the Middle East with the roll-out of the mandatory update&period; But services in Japan and throughout Asia would still be down and should be up shortly said company sources&period; Sony also announced that it was implementing &&num;8220&semi;aggressive action&&num;8221&semi; to prevent and resolve security holes that allowed the attack and is stepping up consumer protection services to prevent further customer data leaks&period; Sony also announced they would be sending a &&num;8220&semi;welcome back&&num;8221&semi; package for the inconvenience to users and that it will include &&num;8220&semi;premium content&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Original Story&colon; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The light at the end of the tunnel is finally getting brighter for Playstation 3 users&period; Yesterday&comma; news broke that Sony would release a mandatory software update for all Playstation 3 users&period; This update would bring the Playstation Network back online in the Americas&comma; Europe&comma; Australia&comma; New Zealand&comma; and the Middle East&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The silver lining is that this a phased restoration and it may still take some time before users have full functionally of the Playstation Network and access to Sony&&num;8217&semi;s online videogame services&period; This is however a huge step forward a beleaguered network and company that has been plagued ever since the cyber attack took them down over a month ago and shut off internet based services and compromised personal information of over 100 million customers&period; Check out Sony&&num;8217&semi;s official announcement and apology in a youtube video below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Don&&num;8217&semi;t forget to follow us on <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;pages&sol;BagoGames&sol;159779927418064">Facebook<&sol;a> or <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;&num;&excl;&sol;BagoGames">Twitter<&sol;a> to get more live updates on the PSN Outage Crisis&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"375" data-videoid&equals;"VV6eY2ANjfg" title&equals;"Kazuo Hirai&colon; PlayStation Network Restoration Announcement &lpar;5-14-11&rpar;"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;VV6eY2ANjfg"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;VV6eY2ANjfg&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Kazuo Hirai&colon; PlayStation Network Restoration Announcement &lpar;5-14-11&rpar;"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;