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| ?The good news," continues Dugas, "is that we have been surfing the net lately to see all the reactions about what we've shown in different videos. We read a lot of people's reactions on the game and I must say that the reaction is fairly positive -- but the highlighting comes back very often. People fear that it's going to break the immersion -- we totally disagree with that, but that being said, we've decided we're going to offer the option to the NHL players to turn the highlight off. And moreover, we're also allowing them to disable the objective locator on the maps. So you can totally remove the augmented reality -- it'll be like when Adam Jensen goes back home and just wants to relax and watch a movie."The team has also decided to tie the default settings for these options to the game's difficulty level. On Easy or Normal modes, highlighting and objective locators will be switched on by default. On Hard, they will be disabled. The option is still in the NHL player's hands, though, and can be changed NHL Pucks in-game at any time.Whatever your feelings on object highlighting, it's great to see a developer listening to its fans and providing them with the option to play the way they want to play. Sony: PlayStation Network personal user data stolen. Things just got a lot worse for users of the Sony PlayStation Network. With the service still offline after almost six days, Sony has now said that an intruder stole personal information about its users, potentially including their credit card numbers."We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network," Sony said in a blog post on Tuesday.It was still investigating the matter, but believes that the intruder obtained names and addresses for registered PlayStation Network and Qriocity users, along with their birthdates, email addresses and other personal information."While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility," Sony said. "If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained."In response, the company said it has now turned off both of the services - which weren't working anyway - and hired a security firm to conduct "a full and complete investigation" into what happened.It now expects to restore services "within a week", the blog post says.The PlayStation Network is used for online gaming and sales of Sony gaming software. Qriocity runs on the same network infrastructure and provides audio and video services for some of Sony's consumer products.The problems began last week when users were greeted with an error messages when they tried to log into the services.Sony initially expected to have the service up and running within a day or two. |
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