Grave Gamer News & Views — sony

Horizon: Zero Dawn Screens Make Me Tingle (Violently)

One of the most impressive showings at the PlayStation E3 presser was Guerilla Games’ brand new IP Horzion: Zero Dawn. It has two names because it was twice as amazing as any game shown all E3 long.

It’s a gorgeous third-person action game set in an unbelievable open-world unlike any we’ve seen in many years. It harkens back to the originality of Sony’s first-party games back in the PS2 era. Definitely one I’ll be tracking the closer we get to playing it ourselves. (How can you not salivate over robot dinosaurs? I mean, really?) 

My respect for Microsoft and the Xbox brand is real (though tested), there’s no taking that away. But, just as it was last year, Mircrosoft spent their whole conference telling us they were about the games while Sony once again just straight up showed us they were about games. They brought the pain this year, and though their sense of pacing was like a college freshmen trying to master foreplay,...

PS4 Screenshots Not Uploading?

Don’t suffer that shit like I did. Granted, I thought a bug in an update stripped me of my ability to share screenshots and the like to Twitter, so I waited until, hopefully, Sony would resolve the issue.

But my ‘Sit Back and Do Nothing’ procedure incurred no change. Turns out, it’s no bug. It’s just an overstuffed backlog of notifications.

If you, too, aren’t able to upload your brilliant snapshots and videos, here’s your first line of action:

1. Go to Notifications from the Dashboard

2. Scroll down to Uploads

3. Press the ‘Options’ button on your controller and manually delete all of those notifications clogging up your console.

The hell if I know why this works or why letting the notifications go unmaintained prevents you from using the Upload feature altogether (maybe it is a bug). But hope it helps you folks up there that haven’t been able to inundate your friends’ Facebook feeds with Fatality screenshots. Your aunt needs to witness a spunky blonde girl pistol whip a man’s jaw off.

Good News, Everybody! PSN is Still Down

Well, it seemed like good news around 3:30AM EST when I checked on the PlayStation Store. On PS4, instead of an oppressive blue screen of nothingness that only alters to cry about server woes, the store actually worked, giving the thousands of us night owls first wind of an online-capable future.

Then PSN took another big shit and stopped working. This pushes us into the third day of the Sony network’s inactivity since it was supposedly “taken down” on Christmas Day, alongside Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, by a group of hackers that call themselves “The Lizard Squad.”

The hackers’ reasoning for this attack on home entertainment? ”Microsoft and Sony are fucking retarded, literally monkeys behind computers,” one Lizard said in an interview with The Daily Dot, and the attack was meant to illustrate both corporations’ failings when it comes to online defense. The hacker goes on to say companies like Microsoft and Sony would be wise to hire criminals given their proven successes in the field — a Suicide Squad of nerds, basically.

There is some doubt about The Lizard Squad’s involvement with the outages, however. Especially in Sony’s case, in which crucial, and private, information was hacked and leaked last month thanks to our friends in North Fucking Korea (spawning The Interview debacle — yet another struggle over mere entertainment). The Squad even claims their denial-of-service attacks only spanned 12 to 14 hours Christmas Day, and yet PSN is still KO’d. Online gaming could have bigger enemies than a faceless group of kids “doin’ it for the lulz.”

While Xbox Live has recovered, returning to a functional state sometime yesterday, PSN’s troubles are still extending across the PS3, Vita, and PS4. That means no games (or services) can be downloaded, nor can media apps (like Netflix and Hulu) be used.

It’s a critical strike against the company given that many new customers will have received brand new consoles over the holiday; brand new consoles that don’t work as intended. Currently, Sony has not spoken publicly about PSN’s continued troubles. We’ll update as word comes in.

PlayStation Experience 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada - Day 2