While I was reading IGN this morning I read a very interesting article on cross-play.（俺非电子工程专业人士，不过可以理解为不同厂商的软件以及应用在不同厂商的平台交互使用共享的一个balabala的idea，大概就这么凑合的看吧。。。） Personally, I think cross-play between different consoles could be a major feature for future gaming but it seems other companies have other ideas to make this happen much earlier.

So, it looks that Nintendo has given permission to Ripstone, the studio behind Pure Chess, to make cross-play possible not only between the Wii U and the 2DS/3DS but also with the other platforms in which this game will be available, like the PS Vita or PlayStation 3. Sounds great, huh? This is very incredible because, even though this is not the first time a company gives permission to the game studio to do it (see Battlefield 4 or The Division between tablets and consoles), Nintendo is still a very locked company. And what do I mean by this? That the majority of games developed for Nintendo consoles are exclusive for them. See Pokemon, Mario, etc（没办法，任天堂招牌的东西肯定不能送给别人去开发，不然人家马里奥大叔万一被恶搞穿越到索尼的游戏里面——比如杀戮地带——不小心吃了个蘑菇目标变大了，然后就轻而易举的被对方爆头▄︻┻┳═一…… ☆（>○<） 神马的。。）

So, with Nintendo giving a little boost to this, we still need to know what do Microsoft and Sony think about it, but because the architecture is “fairly” similar (as in game controls and game modes) there shouldn’t be any problem.
So, what do you think?



第二篇，喜闻乐见的索尼卖萌系列，开始了，索尼暨上次卖萌送了人家一台ps4之后，这次又卖萌了，送了不少东西。。。送了啥呢，请大家往下看。。The day Sony gave free lifetime Playstation+ membership to thousands of users… by mistakeOctober 27, 2013 in Gaming, PS Vita, security by wololo | 94 comments

                               
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Disclaimer: the technique described below was not found by me, I merely verified it worked. I am publishing this article because the “trick” involved here has now been corrected by Sony. I was also not able to know who initially found that flaw initially, so credits go to the person who contacted me about this, someone I’ll name NC.MA for now.

A few days ago I was contacted by a person who had been transmitted a way to get unlimited Playstation Plus membership for free. I could confirm it works. I could of course not confirm that the membership is actually unlimited, but the status of my test account seems to confirm it, and I could definitely download and play Playstation Plus games with the account I created for the test.（好吧，请往下看）

As you may or may not know, Playstation Plus arrived in Brazil a few days ago. And it appears Sony have been really nice to its Brazilian users, “selling” the PS+ 1 year membership for free.（废话，巴西机子卖价格都够买一个肾了！！！！再不搞点福利让别人怎么活！！！） Maybe because their devices are so overly priced out there that the only way for them to convince people to buy a Vita is to give as many games as possible for free. That, or this was more likely just an internal test that was not supposed to be seen. I couldn’t find any official mention of this offer on the intertubes, so I’m pretty sure it was not supposed to be known. This is what the 1 Year PS+ membership subscription page looked like 2 days ago on the Brazilian Playstation Store, when accessed from a PS Vita.Independently of the reason, it was possible over the past few days to get 1 year of free PS+ subscription on the Brazilian PSN. To do so, one simply had to create a Brazilian account on their Vita, and visit the Playstation store page. (I describe here how to switch your PS Vita account, my example in the article is for the US, but you can apply the same logic for Brazil).（翻译，需要你换区成巴西区的账号，需要换账号的戳他们的链接看方法，或者去电玩巴士看相关无损转区的文章。。。）

Once the account was created, there were options in the PSN to get 1 year of PSN for free. Icing on the cake, Sony did not ask for any payment method for an automated renewal. But it does not stop here.By repeatedly clicking on the “get free” button to acquire the 1 year free membership, people were able to keep increasing the expiration date of their free “trial”. I put “trial” in quotes here, because everything points to that subscription not being a trial, but a full fledged membership that just happens to be free: The store not asking for a payment method for future renewals, the fact that one can order as many as they want to increase the expiration date, and the fact that it is not described anywhere as a promotion of any type.（大概就是说索尼又卖萌了，说可以点击后获取一年的免费ps+的会员，但是没有限制点击的次数，所以，多次点击后可以获得很多年的免费会员，。。。。）

By clicking 7 times on the button, I got myself 7 years of free Playstation plus on the Brazilian store with my experimental account, as shown in the screenshot below:（这样，这货就搞了七年巴西服务器的会员，七年，整整七年啊啊啊啊啊啊！！！）
Detailed steps, as initially explained to me. (Please note that as of today, this does not work, and this is the reason I’m publishing this):（操作详情如下，基本上没啥需要翻译的，我还是随便扯扯吧。。。）

• Create a Brazilian account on the PSN store and activate your vita with it (the whole process is described here for a US account, replace US with Brazil in the explanations)（搞个巴西账号，在psv上使用）
• In the PS Vita Settings > PSN > PS+ Automatic Update settings, check the checkbox “update automatically”
  

• The Vita will then ask you to subscribe to PS+, taking you to the PSN Store, at the PS+ subscription pages
  

• There are several options there, 1 year, 3 months, etc…
• The 1 year selection gives you a choice between $99 and FREE. Select FREE（我们来无节操骗巴西区的会员了。。。）
  

                               
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• Clicking “Free” several times in a row will keep increasing your subscription expiration date. In my example, I’ve clicked seven times.
  

• To confirm this worked, you can check in “Services” on the PSN the expiration date of your prime plus membership. And you can of course get PS+ games, all you can eat.
  

                               
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The subscription bug was on the PS Vita, but the PS+ membership generated this way is, of course, valid on the PS3 as well, as I could confirm:（bug实在psv上发现并且使用的，但是ps+的会员确是通用任何平台的，所以。。。。）This was definitely not intentional from Sony, and the steps involved seem to show this was not a “free trial”, but a full fledged PS+ membership available for free, probably as part of an internal test just after the Brazil PS+ launch. This shows that although the Vita itself is extremely tough to hack, pirates can always find their way. Seems like a great example of the door lock being extremely secure, but Sony let a window open.Will my lifetime PS+ subscription magically go away overnight? Probably. This actually raises a good series of questions. Given how easy this was to achieve and find, I am going to guess many, many people found out about this over the past days, not only the small group of people who contacted me. Are Sony going to let thousands of users get away with dozens of years of free PS+ membership? Or will they cancel all of those eventually, without any message to the impacted users?It is unlikely that anybody genuinely thought they were getting a nice offer and will “complain” to Sony if these memberships get cancelled, but would Sony go as far as banning the accounts? Hopefully not, given how no hack or breach of the T&C’s was involved here, faithful Sony customers who thought they were getting a great deal might become collateral damage if that were the case.As of today, the “free” offer is gone:Credits go to NC.MA and his group for this discovery. Proof that a system is as secure as its weakest link, and that insane hacking skills are not necessary to “pirate” (Is this considered as piracy?) games on the Vita or the PS3 (hmm, or the PS4, for that matter, as I assume the membership will be valid there too). The information was also originally leaked here


好吧，曾经的我们还是需要有无节操的消息并且及时发布的， 如果我们早点拿到这个消息，大家都去巴西区的网站上骗个会员，下足够的游戏，无损转区。。。。得有多爽啊同志们！！！！！

我是一个医生，我为最近几次发生的丧心病狂的事件医闹事件表示无奈，也因为我曾经混论坛翻译文章被人喷而无奈。这个社会最需要的永远不是公平，而是尊重。。。否则，永远都不可能公平。。。为逝去的同行默哀，也想告诉很多偏执的人，我们只想治病，不想被杀，我们也有自己的家庭，自己的理想和自己的尊严。。。