Sony says the attack came from Amazon's EC2 Cloud Hosting

Sony is pointing fingers at Amazon's EC2 Cloud Hosting service. Sony claims that hackers took advantage of Amazon's hosting service to launch a massive attack on their servers. A German researcher said that all it would cost to launch an attack using EC2 is "$1.68 and twenty minutes of time". According to sources, the hackers posed as a regular business and rented a server from Amazon, no one knows exactly how the hackers launched their assault. A side note of information, Sony reported an increase in sales of their PS3 unit by 13% during April; while the servers were down. Lastly Sony says they don't have a set date for when the PSN will be back up

Games, games, games, and of course, more games

Mass Effect 3:

The release of Mass Effect 3 will be delayed because it "needs to cook for a bit longer". Instead of dropping into stores for the winter holidays it can be expected to pop up in the first 3 months of 2012


Portal 2:
Portal 2 is obviously the sequel of Portal but is now featuring more advanced physics and 2 player co-op. The game is currently on sale for the PS3 & PC and no one knows how long this sale will last! At the moment the PS3's price is $34.99 and the PC's price is $29.99 don't pass this up! Oh and the Xbox version is on sale too.. it's price is $58.95 instead of the regular $59.99


Resistance 3:
A Resistance 3 demo is said to be rolling out with the release of Battle: Los Angeles for blu-ray. A multiplayer beta test for Resistance 3 is also going to be available to people who pre-order from certain retailers, as well as people who purchased the special "Full Deployment Edition" of SOCOM 4.

Thor: God of Thunder

The movie featuring Chris Hemsworth as Thor which hasn't been released just yet already has a game rolling out for PS3, XBox 360, Nintendo DS and, Wii. In each version of the game you'll play as Thor fighting through the 9 worlds in a different style.

Trailer for the PS3 and XBox 360