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Whatever happened to the low-ping bastard? The scourge of the early days of online gaming, the LPB would dominate Quake deathmatches by simple virtue of the fact that their connection to the server was often orders of magnitude faster than anyone else's, resulting in complete and utter domination. It was easy to identify the LPB: a quick look at the roster of game players placed their "ping" times alongside their names, making it easy to spot those with obvious latency advantages.

Sony has defended its "Welcome Back" offer of free games after users criticised the titles available.

Sony has extended the PlayStation Network Welcome Back offer to tomorrow afternoon.

Sega is ready to release HD updates of cult Dreamcast classics Shenmue and Shenmue 2, according to a new report.

Eurogamer has seen video evidence that verifies reports that Sony's PlayStation Network password reset system suffers from an exploit that allows attackers to change your password using only your PSN account email and your date of birth - information compromised in the PSN hack of 20th April.

Downloadable games must ship on Xbox Live Arcade at least simultaneously with competing platforms or Microsoft may refuse to publish them, Eurogamer can reveal.

Q Entertainment is having a good hard think about whether to bring Rez HD to PlayStation Network.

Sony has warned that PlayStation Network will be down for maintenance today between 8am PST / 4pm BST and around 8.30pm PST, which is 4.30am BST tomorrow in old money.

Sony will take PlayStation Network down this evening from 4pm UK time to half-past midnight - a entire evening's worth.

Gamers who treasured cult Nineties console the NeoGeo are in for a blast from the past after SNK announced plans to release updated versions of its classic games on PlayStation 3.

Sony will take the European PlayStation Network down today from 4.05pm UK time through to 3am tomorrow morning.

UPDATE: SCEE has tweeted to say the PSN is "currently down for maintenance". "We'll update you with timeframes as soon as we can," the company said.

UPDATE: Having trouble downloading the firmware through your PlayStation 3? Grab it from Sony's website instead.

The PlayStation Network is back online in the UK after 25 days of outage.

The PlayStation Network is still down in Japan two months after Sony took the service offline - and it seems no closer to being restored.

The Japanese PlayStation Network will finally be fully restored this week on Wednesday, 6th July.

UPDATE: Panic over, normal service seems to have returned.

2D fighting game Darkstalkers: The Night Warrior is heading to PlayStation Network, the US game ratings board has revealed.

PlayStation Network will be offline the evening of Thursday, 17th November, Sony has announced.

UPDATE: Capcom has told Eurogamer that Darkstalkers will launch on the European PlayStation Store, but was unable to provide us with a release date.

PlayStation Network will be offline Thursday evening, Sony has announced.

The first entry in Guerrilla Games's Killzone FPS franchise is on its way to PlayStation Network, publisher Sony has announced.

What are you doing between 4pm GMT today and 6am GMT tomorrow? If you thought the answer was "accessing a range of PlayStation Network services", then think again, because Sony has said that PSN will be down for maintenance throughout that period.

UPDATE: Sony has explained the delay of The Simpsons Arcade.

Sony has scheduled announced another bout of PlayStation Network maintenance.

Capcom PS1 brawler Darkstalkers 3 is heading to PlayStation Network, according to a listing from US ratings body the ESRB.

PlayStation Network will be offline all of this evening, Sony has announced.

Two PSP games pulled from PlayStation Store earlier this year after they were used by hackers to run an exploit on the Vita have gone back on sale.

Sony has contacted Eurogamer to let us know that the free BBC Sports app is in beta now on the PlayStation Network.

Acclaimed side-scrolling shoot 'em up Sine Mora is coming to PlayStation Network, co-developer Digital Reality has announced.