This Just In: SOE Shuts down servers, invite friends to Gears 3 beta

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Sony Online Entertainment’s Station.com has been taken down today, as reports of the system being hacked recently. This will interrupt the service of games like Everquest, Star Wars Galaxies, and DC Universe for a time. This is a strange occurrence since PSN was supposedly coming up this week.

Sony is investigating what they call another “External attack”. This statement was issued on Station.com for users:

Dear Valued SOE Customers,

We have had to take the SOE service down temporarily. In the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately. We will provide an update later today (Monday).

We apologize for any inconvenience and greatly appreciate your patience.

Seeing as Station.com houses many pay-to-play MMO’s, it wouldn’t be hard to say that more credit cards are at risk. Here is hoping that Sony is able to get this problem under control quickly.

Source: 1up


Invite your friends to the Gears of War 3 Beta

The lucky people who are playing the Gears of War 3 Beta at the moment, will have the opportunity to add some friends into the mix. This new promotion titled “Never fight alone” will offer four methods of inviting friends to the beta. The first is simple enough as getting a key and handing it to your best buddy. The rest require quite a bit of work, or offering up some cash.

  1. Purchasing any Gears of War content from Xbox LIVE Marketplace — that includes game add-ons, games from Games on Demand, and Avatar gear.
  2. Spending 20 or more hours playing the beta from today on, helping us make Gears of War 3 a better experience.
  3. Adding 12 months of Xbox LIVE Gold to your membership — if you already have several months or more remaining, the time will be added on to the end of your subscription.
  4. Having at least 100 hours of gameplay logged on the Gears of War franchise. That includes single player and multiplayer across Gears of War, Gears of War 2, and their add-ons.

Completing any of these on the list will net you a shiny key for friends. However, it doesn’t seem very worth it for a week of spending time with friends. Since the keys will only work from May 8th to the 15th, which is the end other beta testing period. I suggest just taking the shiny free key and going about your business as usual.

Source: 1up