The new version of Multi Tools is released.

What is PS3 Multi Tools for Windows?

“PS3 Multi Tools for Windows” is the new version of “Multi Tools for PS3″.

With this tool you can:

- Manage your games

- NEW: Work faster with the new execution box (Execute commands like “copy” or “format”)

- Easily copy games to other HDDs

- Format a HDD to FAT32 (over 32GB)

- Sign Package files (.pkg)

- Easy report bugs with the Reporter (Under settings)

- NEW: Download the newest Custom Firmwares like DualBoot CFW

- NEW: Get always the latest of your PS3 CFW Backup Manager like Multiman

- Easy select your HDD for games on the menu (NEW: If not found, you can enter it manually)

Other changes:

- New Design

- Improved copy speed

- Added a clock

Requirements:

- .Net Framework 4.0

Download:

[Download MultiTools 2.0]

Over the past few moths, Sony have been getting quite a bad deal in regards to hacks, after the return of PSN, we had the issue on the official Playstation websites, where a vulnerability was found with the sign in process, then security experts F-Secure found a Phishing website being hosted on the official homepage of Sony Thailand(Source).

Sony Thailand Official Site:

Phishing Site On Sony Thailand Server:

Then Sony Music Indonesia was hacked and defaced, by an individual or group known as k4L0ng666(Source)

So-net Entertainment Corp, an Internet service provider subsidiary of Sony Corp, reports that they have had an intrusion and redeemable customer gift points worth about $1,225 were stolen.

Sophos Security reports that Sony BGM Greece gets hacked and information dumped, information belonging to 8000+ people(Source – thanks to KingKush for the tip).

On top of all this hacking, Sony have just reported a (more…)

An anonymous hacker has contacted us today (not to be confused with Anonymous) releasing a PDF theory which will help hackers learn more about 3.6x firmwares, which in turn can lead to the 3.6x key decryption…hence custom firmware.

Please not before continuing that this a highly technical document, and is a theory at the very least so we are labeling this as a rumor - but this information should hopefully get us in the right step towards 3.6x CFW

ATTENTION: 05/23 Anonymous hackers release PDF theory for dual firmware PS3; Could lead to 3.6x+ key decryption/CFW!

05/23/2011 For Immediate Release:

The beginning of dual-firmware PS3:

http://www.ps3hax.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=678

The technique outlined in the .PDF will help people learn more about 3.6x firmwares.
The solution relies on the implementation of a second NOR/NAND Flash.
Some technical limitations have been identified. But time will help us to remove them.

The information in the document is still theoretical for the moment, however please post results from your testing.

We believe knowledge and information wants to be free.
Learn what you can and help contribute to making the PS3 scene a better place.

Released by No_One.

[Download PDF Theory Here]

Esteemed PS3 Developer KaKaRoTo, has been working hard for two months on a little project, which he has just released to day, it is a professional Homebrew game, there is also a petition in the form of a letter addressed to Sony and if you chose, there is an option to donate, here is a quote from the Source:

The Humble Homebrew Collection is an initiative that aims to convince Sony to provide us with a legitimate and official way to create homebrew applications for the consoles that we own.

We are providing you with a free homebrew game that aims to be polished and look professionally made which includes 33 very good and addictive puzzle games. We’ve tried to make this homebrew games collection as good as possible so that even the anti-homebrew purists will be jealous of it.

Homebrew does not equal piracy, and this is proof of it. These games are all free and are released under the MIT license.

You are free to download these games for the platform of your choice, whether it’s on a jailbroken PS3, Linux, Windows, Mac or Android.

This Homebrew game collection is a port of Simon Tatham’s Portagle Puzzle Collection to the Playstation 3 system and it includes 33 puzzle games. More games are being written and this collection will only increase with time.

This is one of the first homebrew games that are released on the PS3 which are above the “proof of concept” status and is not yet another backup manager, FTP server or a port of an existing emulator.

This homebrew game is still in active development and will continue to receive regular updates. The TODO list has many items on it and it will continue to improve for your enjoyment.

The main purpose of this website it to serve as a petition against Sony’s unjust behavior towards their customers. You are encouraged to sign the petition, donate to the developers or you can simply download the games. The choice is yours.

If you wish to do so, you may also donate to the developers of this homebrew application, as well as to the EFF, which helps defend our rights in this digital age.

It is time to vote with your money, boycott Sony, request your legal homebrew and request your freedom and let them know that they have much to gain by giving us access to the homebrew that we deserve.

Let Sony know that, as a customer, you want homebrew games, you want to see the real purpose of the Copyright Law used properly: To encourage creativity and innovation. Let them know that, as a customer, you are willing to pay for quality homebrew and that if they wanted to, they can get a share of that money. After all, all they care about is money!

Thank you

Source And Download

Another big update by Dean today on his backup manager, multiMAN. Changelog below:

2.00.02 -

* Fixed: handling of themes_dir and covers_dir options in options.ini (broken in .01)
* Fixed: handling of NETHOST definitions in options.ini (broken in .01)
* Changed: Remember user font selection on exit (prevents reverting to theme font at each startup)

File Manager related:
* Added: Context menu in File Manager (similar to right-click) with CIRCLE button (all other shortcuts are removed)
* Changed: Removed File Manager from mode list (L1/R1 skips it)
* Changed: File size in File Manager shown with 2 decimal precision
* Added: “File Manager Access” option in SETTINGS XMMB column – PIN protected – to disable FileManager mode
* Changed: Key to select multiple files/folders: [SQUARE] (was [select])
* Left pane shows up to 60 characters and right up to 55 for file/folder names (was 26/22)

XMMB related:
* Added: “Poster and Cover Alteration” option in XMMB Settings column
* Added: “Button Assignment” option in XMMB Settings column
* Added: Current selection in Settings column remembered
* Fixed: Applying themes now changes text colors immediately in XMMB mode (clock, option names, game column title)

* Added: Video thumbnails for XMMB VIDEO column (3264×3264 max res):
- for external (non-XMB) video files: Example:
— movie name: my_video.avi
— thumbnail : my_video.avi.jpg, my_video.avi.JPG, my_video.jpg, my_video.JPG
- for internal (XMB) videos – .STH thumbnail generated by the PS3 is used

* Added thumbnail support for AVCHD, BDMV and DVD video structures (POSTER.JPG, COVER.JPG)
* Added thumbnail support for AVCHD, BDMV (multiAVCHD compatible /HDAVCTN/BDMT_O1.jpg, /BDMV/META/DL/HDAVCTN_O1.jpg)
* Added thumbnail support for PHOTO column (for JPEG images with resolution up to 3264×3264)
* Added: Last game selection is remembered in XMMB mode after restart and after switching to other display modes
* Improved: No more reloading of XMMB columns each time you leave/enter XMMB mode or game/system submenu
* Changed: Scanning for content while in XMMB doesn’t show the ugly “Scanning…” screen
* Removed: File extensions for known media files in MUSIC/PHOTO/VIDEO XMMB columns
* Added: Download Themes application in WEB XMMB column (thanks to S4BRE and condorstrike for hosting)
* Added: Visit multiMAN forum link in WEB XMMB column
* Graphics fixed: Downloading files via web browser while in XMMB mode
* New option in options.ini/options_default.ini: themes_web_dir (to store downloaded themes)
# Option: Directory to store downloaded multiMAN themes
themes_web_dir=/dev_hdd0/game/BLES80608/USRDIR/themes_web

* Visualization improvement (good news for users with 720p/576p/480p TVs, too):
* No more jagged edges of the textures (ICONS) during enlargement/shrinking
* 576p looks good now, not to speak of 720p
* Smoothing also applied to OVERSCAN modes
* Added: Support for srt/ssa/ass subtitles when caching video for Showtime from NTFS drive
* Removed: AC3 playback from file manager
* Optimized memory management (90MB free during mM operation)
* More optimizations: multiMAN executable (RELOAD.SELF) size down to 496KB

[Download Multiman]

Robo Hobo has to be the greatest Emulator dev on the PS3, he has ported many Emulators to the PS3 and has just ported Fuse, a ZX Spectrum emulator.

Here is a version for testing, I’m calling it ‘Alpha 1′. There’s a lot of features in the emulator, and I’m not all that familiar with the spectrum to even begin testing them all. If you find any issues, or have any ideas for improvement, please post them.

If you are using a USB keyboard post any info about non-working keys (likely on non-US keyboards) and I’ll add them to the sdcell key map for future releases.

Please read the Readme.PS3 file in the zip for usage info and known issues.

Readme:

FUSE 1.0.0.1 PS3 Alpha 1:

Custom Firmware

3.41 Dongle
Thanks to Robo Hobo for his hard work!
Sources:

http://psx-scene.com/forums/822385-post25.html

http://code.google.com/p/sdcell/sour…8b78569dc38dd7

I am a huge fan when it comes to any kind of PS3 mods, and sometimes the most simple of ideas simply looks hands down the best. A creative individual, Palle Olsen, was tired of his clunky PS3 wires disgracing his TV setup, so he decided to reorganize his wires in a sexy way.

The wiring was done with some superglue, double sided mounting tape, and designing with adobe illustrator – simple yet effective.

If interested you can see how he actually glued the wiring to the wall HERE.

It’s been a little while since we have had any news about Showtime Media Player, but no need to worry. The LonelyCoder aka andoma has been busy and as a result has released 2 updates in 2 days. The LonelyCoder has made a lot of improvements to this with bug fixes abundant and performance improvements.

Change logs below:

Showtime v2.99.401

• Fix alignment issues with subtitles.
  Make sure each rendered text line is aligned same way as the text bounding box
  Fixes ticket #497
• Don’t crash if text rendering fails
• freetype: If we are unable to get a face with style modifiers, try to get one without
  It’s ok since we can do italic and bold ourselfs. Before this Showtime crashed
• httpclient: Fix regression with non-chunked transfered data
  Problem when reading last bytes of file (truncated reads)
  Affected playback of .mov/.mp4 files

Showtime 2.99.393

• New PS3 icon in XMB (credits to gizmo)
• Improved subtitle rendering (Can now do some styles, etc from SSA/ASS)
• subtitles: Add support for Windows 1250 character encoding
• Handle UTF-8 BOM in SRT files
• Fix various bugs in PS3 Cell accelerated video decoder
• Improve SRT scanner (Don’t search on UPNP shares, only search parent folder and subs/ folder)
• Faster navigation to new page when clicking on an item
• Fixes for Twonky UPNP/DLNA server
• Fix playback of some AVI files (Timestamp problems)
• Plug a bunch of memory leaks
• Handle and tags in SRT subs, skip other tags
• Add settings for subtitles
  - Screen positioning (left, center, right)
  - Size adjustment (no longer scale from UI settings)
  - Possible to have Showtime always select a subtitle if one is found
• Faster start of video playback from upnp (use mimetype to infer container format instead of probing)
• Improve buffer management, see 7ecd2e76
• Improve performance of browsing RAR archives
• Make opensubtitles.org work again
• Support SRT files from minidlna server

Source

[Download Showtime]

The Playstation store will be up quite soon, a report here states the 24th of May, other reports suggest the 31st of May, so to celebrate the return of the PS Store, we are holding a competition, where the lucky winner will receive a $50 PSN card, below i will state the terms and conditions.

How To Win.

• You must name your favourite Games Console and the reason why you like that console.

Example:

My favourite games console is the original Xbox 1 console because, i loved its design, its sturdiness, the control pad in my opinion was awesome and it made for the greatest homebrew console in existence

• The console can be any from the first generation to present day Seventh generation.

• Handhelds are allowed.

• You must only pick one console and only make one post.

• Competition ends on 1st June

• Your post will be your “ticket” and we will use the same number generator site we did the last time.

• The winner will be selected and informed on the 2nd of June, the code will then be emailed to the winner.

Who Cannot Enter/Disqualifications.

• Sorry Staff cannot enter.

• People who do not use PSN.

• Posting more than once = Auto disqualification.

• Posting without giving a reason why you like the console = Auto disqualification.

Finally Good Luck

To read more about the various different consoles and generations, visit this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console

According to a report by gaming website Gamasutra, Sony says PS Store is to be back up and running on May 24th. Something we have all been waiting for. Well, some of us. When it comes back we will receive our “Welcome Back” goodies. On top of that, we will also receive PS +! If you already have Plus, you will get 60 days of free plus, here is a quote from the source:

Barring any additional problems, Sony plans to bring the PlayStation Store back online next Tuesday, May 24, according to a memo sent to Sony’s game developer and publishing partners.

The company has sent a tentative publishing schedule to partners detailing when their games, expansions and other releases will become available to players. In the memo, obtained by Gamasutra, Sony unveils plans to do two content pushes per week for the next two weeks to catch up with the backlog of content.

“We thank you for your patience as we work to resume service of the PlayStation Store,” wrote PSN content manager Jack Osorno to developer partners.

The first push, set to coincide with the PlayStation Store’s reopening, will distribute content that was originally scheduled to publish on April 26. Three days later on the 27th, another round of games will go live, which were originally scheduled for May 3.

The following week, pushes will take place on May 31 and June 3, using content that originally had been planned to be spread over three weeks. At that point, the company will be back on schedule and, presumably, return to a single content push per week.

View full article at Source

As some of you 3.55 CFW PS3 owners already know, certain games cannot be played on low firmwares, those of you that were considering buying L.A. Noire, are in luck, as a patch has been released that, will enable you to play the game, so go out and buy it

Download the patch HERE.

You have to be surprised at how such a big corporation can fail so badly at keeping their security up to date. It seems that the PSN online login page with password reset was exploited again by hackers. Though not a big as issue as the first, if you go to reset your PSN password all it asks for is your E-mail and date of birth. Hmm lets see, database stolen…they probably have this information….you see where its going.

As a result all webpage logins/password reset options are now offline. If you legitimately don’t remember your PSN logins, well seems like your out of luck for a while. Looks like everyone should have followed Japans decision eh?

Whats interesting about the whole situation that a website Nyleveia discovered this exploit and posted about it online (via Twitter), and contacted Sony to take a look at it. Sony took the tip, had the tweets removed and now have the reason for downtime as:

“Clarification: this maintenance doesn’t affect PSN on consoles, only the website you click through to from the password change email.”
“Fortunately we have got ISPs to release outstanding emails; unfortunately, a small amount of maintenance is required to improve this process”

This exploit was confirmed by a user over at Neogaf, you can see the details about it HERE.

[VIA Nyleveia]

President and CEO of Sony Sir Howard Stringer, has hit back at claims that they were to slow in informing users of the breech, stating

Most of these breaches go unreported by companies. Forty-three percent (of companies) notify victims within a month. We reported in a week. You’re telling me my week wasn’t fast enough?

he also said that Kazuo Hirai’s position as CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment is safe, here is a short quote from the source:

“This was an unprecedented situation,” Stringer told reporters on Tuesday, speaking publicly for the first time since the April breach.

“Most of these breaches go unreported by companies. Forty-three percent (of companies) notify victims within a month. We reported in a week. You’re telling me my week wasn’t fast enough?”

The attack, considered the biggest in Internet history, prompted the Japanese electronics giant to shut down its PlayStation Network and other services for close to a month.

Critics slammed the company for waiting up to a week before telling its customers of the attack and the possible theft of credit card information, prompting lawmakers and state attorneys general to launch investigations.

Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Sony on Tuesday, urging it to respond to questions about its security strategy and reveal more details about the data breach.

In the letter, Representatives Mary Bono Mack of California and G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina said they had contacted Sony on April 29 but all of their questions had not been answered by the company. The lawmakers asked Sony to respond to questions by May 25.

Sony said it expected to face monetary charges from the break-in but was still assessing the damage.

“There’s a charge for the system being down … a charge for identity theft insurance,” Stringer said. “The charges mount up, but they don’t add up to a number we can quantify just yet.”

One expert estimated that costs from the break-in could reach as high as $2 billion.

To read the full article, visit the source here.

On the 29th of April, a United States House Of Representatives Sub Committee, sent SCEA Chairman Kazuo Hirai a letter asking questions regarding the PSN outage, Kazuo responded to that letter, but it seems that those answers weren’t enough, Mary Bono Mack, Chairman of that Sub Committee has sent yet more questions to Kazuo, here is the letter:

May 17, 2011

Mr. Kazuo Hirai
Chairman
Sony Computer Entertainment America
919 East Hillsdale Blvd.
Foster City, CA  99404
Dear Mr. Hirai:

We write today to follow up on requests we submitted in our letter to you on April 29, 2011.  In that letter, we made several queries regarding the data breach experienced by Sony Corporation’s Playstation Network last month.  We thank you for providing a written response and for making Sony representatives available to speak with us in person on May 3, 2011.

At the time you sent the above referenced response and at the time of the briefing, Sony was unable to answer several of the queries we posed in our April 29, 2011, letter.  Now that more time has passed, enabling further investigation of the incident, and particularly in light of the news that Sony restarted its Playstation Network on May 14, 2011, we submit these questions to you again, as well as questions regarding the discovery of a breach impacting Sony Online Entertainment customers.  We request answers no later than May 25, 2011.

1. Has your investigation revealed any additional information on what customer information was specifically obtained, and whether the information was obtained from all accounts or a portion of the accounts?

2. When Sony representatives briefed our staff on May 3, 2011, they indicated that personal information from all 77 million accounts had been breached in some form.  In your May 3, 2011, response to our letter you indicated not every piece of information in each account had been stolen, but that some personal information on all 77 million had been stolen.  Has your investigation revealed what information was taken from each individual account?  Do you have any additional information that would call for revising the number of affected accounts?

3. Has your investigation revealed how the breach occurred?

4. Your initial reply to us on May 3 indicated the attack may have been coordinated and directed by the group of cyber criminals named “Anonymous”.  Have you identified those who are responsible for the breach, including any individual(s)?

5. When our staffs met on May 3, 2011, your representatives indicated Sony could not confirm whether credit card information had been breached but, at the time, there was no evidence to indicate that such information had been breached.  Has your investigation revealed any additional information regarding whether credit card information was indeed taken?

6. Sony discovered on May 1 that an additional breach of its network occurred.  This breach reportedly involved approximately 25 million user accounts at Sony Online Entertainment.

a. Was this breach the same as, related to, or unrelated to the Sony Playstation Network breach?  Have you identified the responsible party?

b. When did the breach occur?  If there was a delay in the discovery of the Sony Online Entertainment breach, what was the reason for the delay?

c. How many user accounts were impacted?

d. What information was taken?

e. When did Sony notify its Sony Online Entertainment users that their accounts had been breached?

7. What steps has Sony taken or does Sony plan to take to mitigate the effects of these breaches on its customers?

8. Regarding both the Sony Playstation Network and the Sony Online Entertainment servers, you indicated in your May 3 response steps Sony is implementing to prevent future such breaches. Do you believe these additional security measures will prevent future breaches or illegal intrusions?  Why did you not have these measures in place prior to the breach(es)?

9. Did Sony have a policy in place at the time of either breach addressing data security and data retention practices?  If not, why not?  If so, what are those practices and does Sony plan any changes in its policies as a result of this breach?

10. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Chief Executive Howard Stringer said Sony “can’t guarantee the security of its videogame network…in the ‘bad new world’ of cyber crime”.  Please explain what he meant, as well as the potential impact on consumers.

Thank you for your attention to and assistance in this matter.

Sincerely,

Mary Bono Mack
Chairman

G. K. Butterfield
Ranking Member

Source

cyberskunk has released two very useful PKG’s, one called Boot OtherOS++, which as the name suggests, boots OtherOS and OtherOS prep Tool, which prepares your PS3 HDD for installing Linux, here is a quote from the source:

OtherOS Prep Tool is used to prepare your system vflash and install petitboot ready to install Linux. IT DOES NOT INSTALL LINUX. For tutorials and videos on how to install Linux head over to gitbrew.org. OtherOS Prep Tool is based off of graf_chokolo’s and glevand’s source and is a one or two step solution to getting petitboot up and running and on your way to installing Linux on to USB or PS3 Hard Disk. At the moment it only supports 3.55 but we will add support for lower firmware soon.

REQUIREMENTS

16MB NOR PS3 (Model CECHH or Higher)

3.55 OtherOS++ enabled firmware installed

(If you want to use REBUG 3.55.1 grab PS3MFW Builder 0.2 Portable
from here with the tasks pre-selected to add OtherOS++ support)

FEATURES

One Step Prep if installing OtherOS to USB Hard Disk

Two Step Prep if installing OtherOS to PS3 Hard Disk

Resize vflash to 6 different sizes

(Original, 11GB, 22,GB, 43GB, 65GB and 83GB)

Create or Delete vflash region 5, 6 and 7 separately

Create or Delete ALL vflash regions at once

dtbImage.ps3.bin included in pkg (no need to have it ready on USB)

Install different dtbImage.ps3.bin from USB

Checks that vflash region 7 create matches vflash size

Detects and displays current vflash size on start up

Auto matches new size to current size on start up

Download and Source

If you can use PS3MFW Builder 0.2, then you can add OtherOS++ support to your Rebug CFW, the rebug guys have released a .tcl task file, here is a tutorial on how to use it:

CREATE OTHEROS++ ENABLED REBUG FW:
If you want to OtherOS++ enable REBUG we have provided the .tcl task file for patching the Lv1 Hyperviser with PS3MFW Builder 0.2. It is the EXACT patch_lv1.tcl from gitbrew.org minus the lv1 memory mapping as it is already patched in REBUG. We can not take any credit for the task file or PS3MFW Builder 0.2 Portable. We have provided them at the bottom of this post for your convenience as we didn’t fell releasing a new PUP just to add these patches was necessary.

1: Add the .tcl file to the tasks folder of PS3MFW Builder 0.2. It will appear as OtherOS++ Lv1 Hypervisor patches for REBUG in the task list.

2: Deselect ALL tasks except OtherOS++ Lv1 Hypervisor patches for REBUG.

3: Use REBUG firmware as your input firmware.

4: Select output directory and filename.

5: Click on Build MFW

6: Rename output PUP to PS3UPDAT.PUP and install on the PS3.

OR

1: Download PS3MFW Bulder 0.2 Portable Win32 from the bottom of this post

(All of the tasks have been pre-selected for you).

2: Click on ps3mfw.exe

3: Use REBUG firmware as your input firmware.

4: Select output directory and filename.

5: Click on Build MFW

6: Rename output PUP to PS3UPDAT.PUP and install on the PS3.

Your new REBUG PUP will have the same OtherOS++ compatibility as OtherOS++ CFW.

Source and Download

So PSN is finally up, what do you get for all the downtime?

PS3 users, 2 of the following games which can be kept forever:

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

PSP folks you get 2 of the following:

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

And here is a bunch of “goodies”:

• A selection of “On Us” rental movie titles will be available to PlayStation Network customers over one weekend, where Video Service is available. Those titles will be announced soon.
• 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PlayStation Plus subscribers.
• Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive an additional 60 days of free subscription.
• Existing Music Unlimited Premium Trial subscription members will receive an additional 30 days of free premium subscription.
• Additional 30 days + time lost for existing members of Music Unlimited Premium/Basic subscription free of charge for existing Premium/Basic members.
• To welcome users Home, PlayStation Home will be offering 100 free virtual items. Additional free content will be released soon, including the next addition to the Home Mansion personal space, and Ooblag’s Alien Casino, an exclusive game.

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[VIA PSBlog] – Thanks to iDelete for news tip.

UPDATE 1:

Official Sony reply to those said this program sucks:

I’m really sorry tha[t] there is nothing there that you want. We’ve tried really hard to put together a list of high quality BD games, rather than simply offering cheaper PSN titles. The average metacritic rating for these games is over 84%, so these are high quality games. Unfortunately with a user base of 77m people, it is really hard to offer something for everyone.

A couple of days ago, Sony released Firmware 3.61 and slowly the Playstation Network came back up, while all that was great, Sony didn’t give us any real information on when the PSN network would resume as normal, so today via the PS Blog, SCEA/SCEE have answered some questions:

Q: So what exactly is working right now?
A: Sign-in for PlayStation Network and Qriocity (including the resetting of passwords), online gameplay for PS3 and PSP, playback of rental video content on PS3 (if within rental period), Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity on PS3 (for current subscribers), access to services such as Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, and MLB.tv, “Friends” category on PS3 (including Friends List, Chat Functionality, Trophy Comparison, etc), in-game leaderboards, and PlayStation Home.

Q: I’m having trouble changing my password/I forgot which email I used on my account/I used a fake email to set up my account.
A: Click here for a set of tips on resetting your password. If you’ve gone through the process and are waiting for an email from us, please note that the very large number of requests has caused certain ISPs to slow the rate at which recipients get emails from us. Please be patient as the systems work through the backlog.

Q: The PlayStation Store hasn’t updated since April 19th. When can I download digital games that were planned to be released since then?
A: To date, three Tuesday publishes were missed, which included items like Under Siege and the MotorStorm Apocalypse demo. Rest assured that you won’t miss any of this great content. To catch up on the large amount of material, we’ll be publishing to the PlayStation Store multiple times per week once commerce functionality is restored.  We will update the PlayStation.Blog with information on timing of the Store restoration, as well as the full list of new content as each publish occurs.

Q: How will PlayStation Plus members be affected by the PSN downtime? A number of games/items were slated to go live or come down on April 26th.
A: We will be picking back up with the PlayStation Plus content calendar where we left off to ensure that you won’t miss out on anything.

Q: Sucker Punch has indicated that they will extend the inFAMOUS 2 beta. Any details?
A: Sucker Punch is evaluating extending the inFAMOUS 2 beta, as well as expanding its scope. Stay tuned for more details here in the coming days.

Q: Is anything special planned for the SOCOM 4 multiplayer community?
A: Zipper will announce details on activities to re-engage fans of SOCOM 4 who have patiently waited to play online.

Q: What about the Call of Duty: Black Ops Double XP weekend that was missed while PSN was down?
A: We have been in discussions with our friends at Treyarch, and they have ensured that all Call of Duty: Black Ops fans will get an extra Double XP event as soon as PSN comes back online. We don’t have details on timing just yet, but look forward to an announcement as soon as we have news.

Q: How can I redeem the Welcome Back offer that was mentioned by Kazuo Hirai? What’s in it?
A: Hang tight – we’ll be announcing all the details soon.

Q: How can I sign up for the Debix AllClear ID Plus protection announced last week?
A: More details are coming soon.

Q: When will the PlayStation.Blog start talking about games again?
A: Tomorrow! Thank you for bearing with us as our role changed over the past few weeks. We’ll be once again talking games every day leading up to E3, which is just a few short weeks away.

Source US PS Blog

Q: So what exactly is working right now?
A: Sign-in for PlayStation Network and Qriocity (including the resetting of passwords), online gameplay for PS3 and PSP, playback of rental video content on PS3 (if within rental period), Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity on PS3 (for current subscribers), access to services such as Mubi and Vidzone, “Friends” category on PS3 (including Friends List, Chat Functionality, Trophy Comparison, etc), and PlayStation Home.

Q: I’m having trouble changing my password/I forgot which email I used on my account/I used a fake email to set up my account.
A: Visit eu.playstation.com/ps3psn for a set of tips on resetting your password. If you’ve gone through the process and are waiting for an email from us, please note that the very large number of requests has caused certain ISPs to slow the rate at which recipients get emails from us. Please be patient as the systems work through the backlog.

Q: The PlayStation Store hasn’t updated since April 19th. When can I download digital games that were planned to be released since then?
A: To date, three Wednesday publishes were missed and rest assured that you won’t miss any of this great content. To catch up on the large amount of material, we’ll be publishing to the PlayStation Store multiple times per week once commerce functionality is restored. We will update the PlayStation.Blog with information on timing of the Store restoration, as well as the full list of new content as each publish occurs.

Q: How will PlayStation Plus members be affected by the PSN downtime? A number of games/items were slated to go live or come down on April 26th.
A: We will be picking back up with the PlayStation Plus content calendar right where we left off, to ensure that you won’t miss out on anything.

Q: Sucker Punch has indicated that they will extend the inFAMOUS 2 beta. Any details?
A: Sucker Punch is evaluating extending the inFAMOUS 2 beta, as well as expanding its scope. Stay tuned for more details here in the coming days.

Q: Is anything special planned for the SOCOM: Special Forces multiplayer community?
A: Zipper will announce details on activities to re-engage fans of SOCOM: Special Forces who have patiently waited to play online.

Q: How can I redeem the Welcome Back offer that was mentioned by Kazuo Hirai? What’s in it?
A: Hang tight – we’ll be announcing all the details soon.

Q: When will the PlayStation.Blog start talking about games again?
A: Tomorrow! Thank you for bearing with us as our role changed over the past few weeks. James will be back tomorrow and will be talking games every day leading up to E3, which is just a few short weeks away.

Source EU PS Blog