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EA has no desire to get lawyer'd.

It is wise to keep your promises, especially when it comes to platform-exclusive perks, and EA is learning this the hard way. We reported earlier how EA had promised PlayStation 3 purchasers of Battlefield 3 would get a download code for a free copy of the 2009 digital release of Battlefield 1943. When it didn’t materialize, PS3 owners were not pleased, to say the least. A class-action lawsuit was filed against EA, but before you can say “holy litigation, Batman!” EA has made good on their E3 2011 promise.

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This and another Oddworld game coming to Vita, as well.

Lorne Lanning, founder of Oddworld Inhabitants attempted to create an ambitious, fully-realized universe with the Oddworld series. Spanning 4 games (the series was originally designed to be a five part series), the series garnered critical acclaim but tepid sales after the first release, Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. Lanning eventually shuttered Oddworld and left the video game industry, focusing instead on animated films. Now Lorne Lanning is back, and he has been working with developer Just Add Water on an HD remake of their final Oddworld game: Stranger’s Wrath for PS3.

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A collection of three PlayStation classics will be hitting PSN, with the first coming in just 5 days.

Today on the PlayStation Blog, Charles McCarter, Product Manager for Square Enix announced a brand new campaign due to start in just five days. The Winter of RPGs will bring a total of three classic Square Enix RPGs to the PlayStation Network over the next few weeks, the first of which, is Chrono Cross, sequel to the SNES fan-favorite, Chrono Trigger.

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North American gamers are going to have to wait a little longer to spin their wheels.

North American gamers who were looking forward to collecting some new wheels in Gran Turismo 5 today via the first dose of DLC are going to have to wait a little longer.

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Hackers access thousands of PSN accounts. Sony locks down compromised accounts.

Sony Chief Information Security Officer Philip Reitinger posted this morning on the Official European Sony Blog that a mass attempt at logging into thousands of PSN and SOE accounts was rebuffed last night. Suspected of culling the list from other companies, the hackers used large amounts of username-password combinations to attempt access to Sony users. 93,000 accounts appeared to be successfully accessed by using these username-password sets. In response Sony locked all of those accounts until their proper owners could confirm authenticity and reset passwords. Of those accounts, "a small fraction" had transactions on them before being locked down. Sony is reviewing all account activity and offering to assist anyone who may have had purchases made in their name.

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