According to NVIDIA, the upcoming Tegra 5 will be able to “outperform” the likes of the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. This comes by way of senior vice president of content and technology Tony Tamsai. The gaming performance is certainly improving, as evidenced by Tegra 4 and Project SHIELD. But can we put this in more quantitative terms?

Well, if you take the current PlayStation 3, you’ll find that it is rated at 200 GFLOPS. By comparison, the Tegra 3 is just 12 GFLOPS. However, the Tegra 4 is said to bring a seven-fold increase to that, increasing performance to about 80 FLOPS. With the Tegra 5 improving on that even further, it’s not that far-fetched to see it break the 200 GFLOPS threshold.

That being said, by the time it’s ready, the PS4 will likely already be out and that’s being rated at 1800 GFLOPS, still putting the mobile chip behind. If we assume the evolution keeps up its current pace, though, a Tegra 6 could be comparable to what we see in the PS4, possibly some time in 2016 or so.

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For a lot of people, the Metal Gear Solid franchise just isn’t the same without Solid Snake as the protagonist, but this Raiden guy… he’s pretty epic. And he’s got some seriously epic boss battles ahead of him in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

While developers Platinum Games are taking care of the crazy action in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, fans of the franchise can rest assured that Kojima Productions is still handling the plot and the design for the Raiden character. But you don’t have to worry about the action coming up short, because an early preview of the boss battles looks to be pretty awesome.

Yes, the early Ray boss is pretty standard, aside from running down an exploding tower and “slaughtering the [skyscraper-sized] robot with nothing more than a sword,” but the Mistral mid-game boss is another beast altogether. She has multiple arms that attach to Dwarf Gekos for some crazy swarm attack action. There’s a wide open arena and plenty of challenge and intrigue, which leads to a smaller industrial environment where you gain the (no pun intended) edge.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance isn’t scheduled for release on PS3 and Xbox 360 until February 2013, but you can pre-order it now to guarantee your copy on launch day.

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The good news is that Sony is on your side. If you get software update 4.25 on your PlayStation 3, Sony is going to offer you an upgraded 1GB of online game save storage. What this means is that, if you are a PlayStation Plus member, you can have your game saves backed up to the cloud. Should anything happen to your PS3 or should you move to another PS3 console, all of your game saves are there for you.

What you have to do is to go the PlayStation Store on your PS3, install software update 4.25, and then go to Game column in the XMB. Under that, you’ll find the Saved Data Utility as usual, but it will also give you access to your online storage folder. You can fiddle with the settings, but it’s recommended that you get all of your game saves (as long as they’re compatible) to upload automatically. One gigabyte isn’t as good as the 48GB you get when you buy a SGS3, but game save files are so small anyway.

Just as an aside, all you Xbox 360 people have a similar function on your consoles. Microsoft has cloud storage for saved games too.

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Just when you thought that Sony was finally in the clear, it looks like the PlayStation Network has another gaping hole in its security. Again. A hack has come to the surface, revealing an exploit wherein hackers can change a user’s password on them.

How? All they need is the user’s email address and his or her date of birth… you know, the kind of information that was compromised in the first wave of attacks. If they already have this info, they could just go and change your password, having their way with your PSN account all over again. Great. Just great.

The good news is that after this exploit was brought to the attention of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, they took down the web-based PSN password recovery site “for maintenance.” They say the hole has now been patched and you can go ahead and change your password on your PS3. It’s probably a good idea to change your e-mail address (since you can’t honestly change your birthdate) too, just in case.

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The other problem is the sheer amount of bandwidth being sucked out of Sony datacenters. It appears they didn’t prepare entirely for a big spike in initial customers logging back in. According to PCW:

Blame droves of eager PSN members, who reacted to the news like any sensible gamer would, by full-on bum-rushing the network. That didn’t go over well with Sony central, which buckled, then temporarily blacked out. The company revealed last night that it was “experiencing [sic] a heavy load of password resets” and had to “[turn] off the services for 30 minutes to clear the queue.” (Sony reiterated this on its PlayStation blog.)

Well, what the heck did they expect was going to happen? Now we’re not so confident with these “added” security measures.

Sony’s press release states “considerable enhancements to the data security, including updating and adding advanced security technologies, additional software monitoring and penetration and vulnerability testing, and increased levels of encryption and additional firewalls.”

They also added “a variety of other measures to the network infrastructure including an early-warning system for unusual activity patterns that could signal an attempt to compromise the network.”

“If you’ve requested your password reset, it’s taking time to clear all of the ISPs, so please give it a bit of time to reach your email,” Sony tweeted.

Just a recap, 26 days ago Sony announced their network was hacked, didn’t announce it to the FBI until two days after (so what?) then giving a “free” month of PlayStation Plus probably because that first month is going to be as slow as a turtle. And then of course, let’s not forget the billion dollar lawsuit.

I guess it’s good to be back, but it’ll be a steep road for Sony to earn back everyone’s trust.

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McPhadden Samac Tuovi LLP is a law firm based out of Toronto and they’re handling the class action lawsuit launched against Sony Entertainment and its associated companies. The figure being thrown around at the moment is a cool $1 billion, though that might go even higher as more gamers sign up to be a part of the settlement.

The accusation? They’re saying that Sony breached the privacy of millions of customers and allowed hackers access to credit card information off the company’s servers. Sony has already said that around 102 million users were compromised during the recent hack, including credit card numbers, addresses, user names, and more. I dont know if this can hold up, Sony did not par take in the breach, although they were holding the user information they are responsible, but was it intentional? No, and what did these customers “lose” other than service? It is not known if the credit cards of the customers have been mis-used.

Natasha Maksimovic is a 21-year-old PSN customer and she’s the one that went to McPhadden to get the wheels in motion. Somehow, I think this class action lawsuit is pretty much in the bag, so you might want to look into how you can get your proper compensation… you know, aside from a month of free PS+.

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We learned yesterday about Sony accusing Anonymous of facilitating the hacking of Sony’s servers, resulting in the PSN nightmare that has been going on the last couple of weeks. Anonymous has just responded.

Thankfully for Sony, Anonymous didn’t respond with another DDOS. Instead, they took the more civil route and issued a press release. In it, the group says that it was not involved in the credit card fraud at all, saying that they do not condone credit card theft. That said, they make no specific mention of denying involvement, either direct or indirect, with the hacking attack that resulted in the theft of thousands of credit card numbers.

It is very well possible that Anonymous was involved in a DDOS (perhaps in response to the Geohot lawsuit), which in turn made Sony’s PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment services “more vulnerable” to the ensuing credit card theft.

“A group of standard online thieves would have every reason to frame Anonymous in order to put law enforcement off the track,” Anonymous said. “If a legitimate and honest investigation into the credit card theft is conducted, Anonymous will be found not liable.”

Photo: Fabrizio Pilato

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This whole PlayStation Network hacking fiasco has been a PR nightmare for Sony and it looks like the bad press is about to get a heck of a lot worse. Not only did Sony allow the hackers to gain access to your account info and your credit card info, apparently they waited two days before they even thought to contact the proper authorities.

Based on the most recent reports, Sony didn’t make first contact with the FBI until two days after they discovered the security breach. What’s more, they didn’t meet up with FBI officials over the matter until five days later. During those five days, who knows what the hackers were able to accomplish and how much of that could have been prevented with the right intervention.

Sony is saying that Anonymous, the group that has no trouble taking down other major corporations to make a statement, indirectly allowed the hacker(s) to get into Sony’s servers. Yes, they’re trying to make themselves out to the be the victim here — and they are a victim — but they could have done more to protect themselves and their users.

It doesn’t help that Sony isn’t being exactly open and forthcoming with what little information it has.

“Sony needs to make a statement to consumers: ‘You will not be harmed, and we will indemnify you against any harm,’” said Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. “And they just have not done that in any of their apologies.”

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When the PS3 first hit the scene, one of the cooler features was being able to run Linux on it. Sony killed that with the release of the PS3 Slim in 2009, thanks to fears of piracy, but it also killed 13 years of love for homebrew. Yes, Sony once officially supported and endorsed the homebrew community.

Let’s go all the way back to 1997 and the original PlayStation. Sony released something called Net Yaroze. This package contained a matte black PS1, a couple of controllers, software, and professional documentation. In short, it was a “full” homebrew development kit for the avid hobbyist.

There were limitations on the size of the games, but it demonstrated that Sony was interested in allowing regular folks make their own games. This continued with Linux for PlayStation 2 (complete with size restrictions), but again, it demonstrated Sony’s dedication to endorsing homebrew.

And then the hackers kinda ruined the party for everyone, Sony got scared, and here we are today. It’s a shame, really, but I guess they’re trying to push these enthusiasts to develop games for PSN instead… though that’s an entirely different beast altogether.

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It’s the jailbreak heard round the world. Based on Geohot’s success in earlier, similar lawsuits, we assumed that his proceedings with Sony over the PS3 jailbreak would follow suit. Well, not exactly. Sony is successful in its first stab.

No, George “Geohot” Hotz isn’t going to jail just yet, but the judge overlooking the “jurisdictional discovery process” proceedings has ruled that Sony can have information from at least four major sources.

It can have info from: Bluehost, which hosts Geohot’s site, for who downloaded the jailbreak; Twitter, for any tweets made by Hotz; Google Blogspot, for any comments made on Geohot’s blog; and YouTube (also Google) for user data related to who watched Geohot’s jailbreak video.

My first gut reaction was that Sony was not only going after Geohot for offering the jailbreak, but also all the people who ended up using it. SCEA might take that path a little later, but for now, this user info is meant to maintain that “many of the downloaders and commenters are from Northern California and that Hotz’s hacking efforts were aimed at Californians.”

I call bull — anyone with a PS3 could be interested in this kind of stuff — but Sony is trying to prevent the case from moving to New Jersey from the Bay Area. Jersey is where Geohot hacked his PS3 in the first place.

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