GS News Top 5 - Dragon Age Multiplayer; Hackers Take Down PSN!

so not crazy about VR technology, maybe in a couple of decades when we r 100% sure there are no adverse effects to ones health.

Outstanding show Jess.

'Keep being lovely', Jess says.

You do the same Jess. You the most lovable woman there is. That's what makes you so special.

@yngsten @Guest1001 @tempertress Well, we have to be careful here on creating the news feed. It is not easy to maintain neutrality in this issue, nor the details in it. It can simply create another misconception.

How circumstantial is the substantiated evidence is still to see. The power of the social media is enough to cause joy or clamor in so many ways. We have to be careful here in saying and writing anything in this powerful medium of communication.

Jess have the reasons, and @Guest1001 is right too. Handling the news in one show will show the credibility of the company itself. I agree on that. Saying something redundant due to the information already searchable in Google is somewhat exhaustive too. Definitely. But going in-between is the hard part. It will never be easy, AT ALL.

@freedomzealot Good question. Peace may mean another war here, so someone has be clever enough to solve this "equality" issue.

So a YouTuber who made a parody of Sarkeesian's video received a call to her personal phone from a feminist who called her a sl*t and told her to kill herself. It seems that this conflict is getting worse and worse :( Both sides need to understand that such people don't represent the other and start listening to those who want to find a peaceful solution.

Twitter trollss must be the new hot-button issue. Meh..Im slightly agitated.

WT.... are this BS i reading PSN is hacked why then i play online and log in in the store

WTf are this BS i reading PSN is hacked why then i play online and log in in the store

I don't know what to say anymore. Maybe that's a good thing.

The best iteration of Dragon Age was the first one on the PC. I played both the Ps3 and Pc versions and the PC was way better: it was more difficult and more tactical.

Multiplayer makes it sound like they're going in the DA2 direction, which would be misguided.

thank god for hackers

hopefully they can delete DA:I multiplayer forever

hackers i summon u ... go destroy all tac on MP

Can we see you in a ponytail just once?

thanks dear Jess for the news and it is sad to see a small company goes down :(.. for the multiplayer in DAI i have to confess i hate anything involve with online playing but in mass effect3 it was really cooperative playing between players in opposite in elder scrolls online you can't have players accompanied you to finish a quest that they already done it

I could really care less about multiplayer in an RPG. The Elder Scrolls & Fallout series are great games, because they're massive and built upon rich worlds. They do it without the stupid multiplayer. I don't see companies insist on doing this.

Look at GTA Online as an example.

It's meh, to say the least. It's mildly entertaining, but I feel the game could have done without it, and the energy and resources would've benefited the SP experience more.

I hope the company that hosted Fish's company's information does a full investigation into this incident. Hacking groups stated that it would be essentially impossible for the events to occur as they unfolded from the outside. While I don't believe the hacking community is wholly moral, they would understand how and if the hacking incident was possible. When I first read that his company's information was published illegally, I was shocked that anyone would bother with such a small company and fully believed the account on Polygon. However, once I looked into the story in more depth, I learned of the Quinnspiracy and all that goes along with it.

In the end, if the "professional" hackers are incorrect, then, hopefully, the FBI will be called in after the hosting company finishes its investigation. However, if Fish posted his employees' information publically, he should be imprisoned. I hope that if the latter occurs that the gaming press will get on an in-depth investigation into these wrongdoings. We need to know how far this rabbit hole of a high school mentality goes, assuming it exists, if this industry has any chance of being taken seriously beyond its current borders.

tl;dr: The people attacking game content creators and reporters need to stop. Any industry insiders who are acting unprofessionally need to stop as well. How about everyone grows up. :)

A direct question for any staff member:
Why are death threats not reported to the police? Tracing people on comment boards is relatively easy these days and threatening someone's life in cyberspace should be held to the same standard as it is in the physical world.

I have nothing against Phil Fish personally and I don't support the actions of whoever hacked him, but so long as he's sitting on Fez and not doing anything with it I wouldn't mind seeing a new game from whoever he ends up selling the rights to.

The lack of new 3DS is disdurping

Dragon Age: Inquisition... I don't care about the multiplayer. I just want a great single-player campaign, a big and varied world to explore, and good story with character development choices, and great graphics. Of course, since the multiplayer is there, I might end up trying it.

The part about no excuse for threats, it bothered me a bit because it sounded like a warning, like hey don't make a negative comment about her or else.

These controversies bring out certain crazed, neck-bearded MRAs who like to say feminists are all extremists but who exactly is harassing others and making death threats? Its the crazed, neck-bearded MRAs. Just saying. ;O)

"There's never an excuse for harassment or threats."

Agreed but you know something else? There's no excuse why a games journalism site can't accurately report on controversies in the gaming world. That's the reason why the controversy exists.

No mention of Phil Fish being abusive towards his followers, including a victim of sexual harassment? No mention of the controversy of unethical behaviour by games journalists, associating with and funding developers that could create conflicts of interest? No mention of The Fine Young Capitalists' wonderful Indiegogo campaign that not only is more progressive for women than every biased and factually-incorrect Anita Sarkeesian video but has faced hacking too?

Stop insulting our intelligence. We live in the internet age. This isn't something that will go away if you pretend it doesn't exist.

I say this without knowing if you sourced the footage directly or from one of Sarkeesian's clips (and without playing through the game myself), but I'm not sure showing Red Dead Redemption footage is fair on Rockstar given that the game is intended as a period piece.

Like it or not, gender inequality is a significant part of our collective history.

death treats eh that is not cool. DA:i multiplayer that is not cool. PS network being hacked that is not cool and whats his name getting hacked and all his stuff being put out there for a$$ holes to mess with. guess what that is not cool

the only thing this week that was cool is me actually getting a full 40 hours of work this week and maybe that part about sony being in love with VR who ever she is ;)

So I guess that person that works at Sony is a poker player, saying "All in".

Hi Jess, I hope your Saturday is going well.

DA:I Multiplayer - Nice that it's there for folks. Me, I couldn't care less but each to their own.

Sony & VR - funny, Sony essentially discounted the technology (at least publically) when Oculus began to gain traction. Now... Oh, well, probably a case of the Sony marketing department changing their meds at some point.

Abuse & Harassment - Nicely stated position. This is NOT ok, ever. Folks can have their own viewpoints, but using these tactics to try to silence somebody else, especially using death threats, is unacceptable. And I would like to point out to these nimrods that they really aren't anonymous.

Taking down PSN is the new way to get into Google.

2:30 PC MASTER RACE

How fucki*g stupid can people be these days.