Holding files hostage So called “ransomware” is increasing in popularity among cyber crooks looking to make a fast buck, so it’s not unusual to hear about a ransomware outbreak. However, there’s never been a successful ransomware campaign against Apple users running Mac OS X, until now. Some Apple users were the target of the “KeRanger”…
Tom Clancy’s The Division launches on PS4 on March 8th, 2016… that’s tomorrow! Set in a representation of New York ravaged by a biological attack, Ubisoft Massive’s third-person, cover-based shooter features a heavy emphasis on player progression, loot collection, and social interaction. Having played the recent open beta of The Division, we had lots of…
R.I.P Ray Tomlinson Ray Tomlinson, the man widely credited with inventing modern day email, passed away over the weekend from what some news outlets (like ZDNet) are reporting as a suspected heart attack (the cause hasn’t been confirmed). He was 74 years old at the time of this death. We take email for granted today,…
Hi PlayStation.Blog! I’m Jeff Kaplan from the Overwatch development team, and I’m happy to let everyone know that Overwatch will be launching May 24th on PS4! As an added bonus, if you pre-purchase Overwatch, you’ll get early access to the Beta for you and a friend from May 3rd to May 4th. After that, everyone…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney launched an assault on Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (UWP) initiative on Friday, saying that this platform must die if Microsoft doesn’t tear down the walls of its new platform-within-a-platform for Windows 10. His call to arms arrives after Epic unleashed Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on Windows Store, which is…
The wait is over. Time to annihilate some aliens. Pang Adventures hits PS4 on April 19th! A Classic Arcade Game… If you’re not familiar with the Pang series, either you’re too young or you’re not hanging out in enough arcades! It’s one of the most popular games from the 90’s, a game in which players…
Today we’re thrilled to tell players that Sniper Elite 4 is coming to PS4 this year. What you’ll want to know, of course, is what makes Sniper Elite 4 special, whether you’re a sharpshooting veteran or a rookie looking to get their teeth into a new third-person stealth action game — especially now that it’s…
Deep in the electro-abyss lives a little robot who loves to eat exploding fruit. He also quite likes staying alive. That’s where you come in… Hey gang! Mike and Charlie here from Infinite State Games. We’re proud to announce that our cult PS Vita arcade game Don’t Die, Mr. Robot! launches tomorrow on PS4! The…
Top Deal: Smartphones and tablets are great, but for being productive on the road, laptops still win the day. It’s boring enough having to type out TPS reports, but doing it on a virtual keyboard just adds insult to injury. On the flip side, so does spending a fortune on a notebook for basic computing…
AT A GLANCE Hot (+) Beautiful screen; gaming-capable laptop; all-around good design. Overheating (-) Bad trackpad; mushy keyboard; awkward camera placement; poor battery life. Surprisingly, this is a gaming laptop When it comes to laptops, 15-inch notebooks are in that awkward space between super sexy 13-inch Ultrabooks and 17-inch big-screen behemoths. Dell is trying to…