By Hugh Langley
How will you remember Christmas 2014? Maybe it was setting fire to the tree with your new drone, or perhaps Grandma managed to go a whole hour without making a slightly racist remark. For many people it was the frustration of not being able to access PSN or Xbox Live because a bunch of bored hackers decided to take both services down. What a time to be alive.
Understandably, Sony and Microsoft both felt a little responsible for letting their servers be taken down so easily so both are compensating players with a few goodies. Sony will be giving everyone five free days of PlayStation Plus along with a 10% discount token to be used on the PlayStation Store.
Microsoft also announced that it’s extending its latest weekly Xbox 360 and Xbox One deals, which will now go through to January 6.
Power to the people
While we’re on the subject, a different hacking group, H4LT, offered up a less intrusive Christmas gift by leaking the November Xbox One development kits. That might not sound so exciting on the face, but the leak revealed that Xbox One developers now have access to more CPU power.
Since October, developers have been allowed access …read more
Source: techradar.com – Gaming
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