Sony of Japan has released a press release stating how they are starting a phased restoration plan for Japan and Asia territories. Service should begin to be reopened by the morning of Saturday May 28th, 2011, which at the time of this writing should be occurring now. Once service is online, you will be able to perform the following activities:
- Service Restoration
- Service Restoration to Playstation Network and Qrocity services, requiring a password change.
- Online play with Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable.
- Trophies, chat capability, Friends list.
- Playstation Home.
- Torne.
Playstation in Asia and Japan territories will offer a Welcome Back program that offers one to choose 2 out of the 5 games for free for each platform.
- Japan's Welcome Back PS3
- The Last Guy
- LocoRoco Cocoreccho!
- echochrome
- WipEout HD
- Hustler King
- Japan's Welcome Back PSP
- What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord? 2 PSP the Best
- Everybody's Stress Buster
- PATAPON2 PSP the Best
- LittleBigPlanet Portable
- LocoRoco -Midnight Carnival
Sony will also provide 30 days of free service for Playstation Plus, and also provide 30 days of free membership to Weekly ToroStation Platinya Membership Card.
[via sony]
Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst
Racaseal Elenor Ver APSY [Limited Edition]
Blue x Black Variation
Release: 7.24.2011 @ Wonder Festival 2011
Elenor Monroe
HOW TO CHANGE PASSWORD!?
Instead of using the PSP, Sign into the Playstation Network on the computer using your Japanese account email address and password. It will send you a message like the screenshot above informing you that the password reset instructions were sent to your email address. It can take up to 24 hours to receive this email.
Type in your new password, it must be at least 8 alphanumeric characters. Once you are done you can press the bottom button and leave the page.