The servers for the cutesy customizable platformer
LittleBigPlanet have been temporarily taken offline. Sony confirmed as much in a tweet earlier today, but a number of community members speaking to Eurogamer seem to suspect that a DDoS attack is to blame for the outage.
DDoS, or distributed denial-of-service, attacks are a persistent concern for online games, even those under the management of major game companies like Sony with sizable resources at their disposal.
Typically, the targeted attacks aim to flood servers for certain games or services with enough traffic to take them offline and make online features for the targeted games or platforms inaccessible to its players.
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HAMSTER Co. (Head Office: Tokyo-to, Setagaya-ku; CEO: Satoshi HAMADA; referred to below as “HAMSTER”) would like to announce that from today March 11th, 2021, THUNDER DRAGON will be added for Nintendo Switch™ and PlayStation®4 as new content, available digitally for Arcade Archives, the downloadable content series by HAMSTER.
About Arcade Archives THUNDER DRAGON
THUNDER DRAGON is a shooting game released by NMK in 1991.
You must pilot a manned combat helicopter “Thunder Dragon” in order to stop a group of mad scientists that have taken over an automated weapon of destruction. Utilize 4 different types of shots, each with their own unique characteristics, as well as powerful bombs to save humanity from imminent destruction.