Looking Back At The Great PSN Hack, Fifteen Years Later - Beyond 939
3/25/202636 min
NOTE: due to some technical issues, this week’s episode is audio only. After almost 20 years, Sony is reportedly retiring The PlayStation Network’s name and logo. What they’ll call it now is anyone’s guess, but it’s as good an excuse as any to take a look back at the 2011 debacle that led to Sony getting hacked, millions of users having their data compromised, and the PSN being taken offline for almost a month. In other news, Valve made a weird change to Counter Strike 2 that not everyone’s wild about, which has us thinking about how much games are a moving target, from Crimson Desert’s rapid post-launch updates to Fornite’s gradual transformation since its early access days, before it was even a battle royale. Some games we’ve been playing include Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s shiny new PS5 upgrade, Romeo is a Dead Man, Yakuza Kiwami 3 and Dark Ties, and High on Life 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsMax Scoville· Host0:00
Beyond and hello, and welcome once again to IGN's weekly PlayStation show. I'm your host, Max Scoville, and coming up, Sony is reportedly retiring the term the PlayStation Network. What should they call it instead? Plus, let's take a trip down memory lane to the great PSN outage of 2011, which celebrates its 15th anniversary next month. Let's get into it. [upbeat music] I think a lot of people hear healthy and think raw kale, and riced cauliflower, and gluten-free gym mats. However, Factor's got delicious low-carb, calorie-smart options like the shredded beef Tinga bowl or brown butter grilled chicken and Yukon mash that are made with quality, functional ingredients like lean proteins, colorful veggies, and healthy fats with no refined sugars or seed oils and no artificial sweeteners. Variety is the spice of life, and Factor offers 100 rotating weekly meals to keep things fresh and delicious through winter, including options like high protein, calorie smart, Mediterranean diet, GLP-1 support, and ready-to-eat salads, as well as the new Muscle Pro collection, which supports strength and recovery, which is great if you're trying to get ripped or are perhaps training to defeat your arch nemesis in some sort of an interdimensional tournament. I don't know what you're doing with those muscles. That's up to you. Best of all, it's convenient as hell. Always fresh, never frozen, ready in about two minutes, no prep, no stress. Factor's great, and as somebody who periodically makes his entire week harder by putting off grocery shopping in favor of fun weekend activities, I'm