Not wanting to receive any more bad press, and seeing as PSN is still down after two weeks, Sony are offering two free games to every PSN user as well as the previously alluded to free months subscription to Playstation+.

The announcement came from Sony Europe spokesperson Nick Caplin who promised that all Playstation 3 users will receive two free games out of a choice of five, and PSP users will receive two free games from a choice of four.  No word on what these games are at this time, but it’s a sure bet that they’ll be:

a)  Titles published by Sony themeselves

b)  Less than stellar titles that have been out for a while now

Still, it’s nothing to be sniffed at, it’s certainly more than any Xbox360 user has ever received as a result of a system outage.

Mr. Caplin spoke to assure users that Sony was “working around the clock” to resolve the issues with PSN, including implementing new security policies which should prevent a repeat of the attack that shared 77 million PSN users personal information with the attackers.

Caplin also eluded to the prospect of identify theft protection for affected users, but noted that due to the complexity of financial laws in different countries it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find an overall solution in Europe:

 

“As I have explained previously, creating a similar offering for the many countries within the SCEE region is a very complicated process. Each country has a different way of handling identity theft; some offer relatively sophisticated services whilst others are much more modest.

“We are currently in the process of identifying how we manage this situation and once the programme is ready to launch, we will provide details of exactly which services are available in each country and explain how to sign up. We hope to do this early next week.”

 

Whatever the end result, it’s a fair bet that most PSN users will be cancelling their credit cards and changing all of their passwords at the earliest opportunity.

 

UPDATE:- Sony have now named the five title that PS3 users can choose from, the list is available here