Gaming News - 21/4/11

Hello to everybody and welcome to the first Gaming post, which is for today, Thursday 21st April 2011. As I posted the other day, my post for Thursday isn't a set item as it were, although I will be doing just general gaming news posts every Friday, as well as the occasional Thursday and maybe Saturday.


So, the first 'headline' today is the release of Operation Flashpoint: Red River, which is the third title in the Operation Flashpoint series, although it could be regarded as the second as Codemasters appear to have taken over the development of the series following the company's fall out with original developer Bohemia Interactive.

Red River follows the story of a group of US Marine Corps as they move in to help settle a civil war in Tajikistan in the year 2013. After the People's Liberation Army of China become aware of the Marines in their neigbouring country they ask them to leave and once the Marine's refuse a far greater conflict erupts.

Red River follows the game gameplay style as it predecessor, heavily using tactical gameplay to try and overcome enemies in a realistic manner, with the developers saying that the play can indeed be killed with a single shot providing the shot is in a fatal area, providing a much more realistic experience in comparison to similar FPS titles. The game also boasts a campaign that can be played co-operatively with up to four players with a deep, narrative storyline to compliment it.


Moving on now and the second piece of news is that Sony have given official word concerning the Playstation Network outages that have occurred throughout today. It appears that many PSN users have had problems when trying to sign into the service. These problems have spark concerns that the hacking group Anonymous have in fact caused the issues by the means of a DDoS attack. The group announced a campaign against Sony earlier this month. The operation, dubbed OpSony began as a result of their disapproval of Sony's lawsuit against the hackers who originally cracked the PS3's code, enabling modders to run pirated software, amongst other things.

In one of the statement given by Sony, European blog manager James Gallagher posts that "while we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we're able to get the service completely back up and running."
You can view the post on the blog by visiting this link.

So, that's the top news for day. Thank you again for reading, I'm randomthings and until next time, goodbye.