More than likely its teenagers or those that are sociopaths.

A-fucking-men. This shit is so childish.

You know what else would stop attacks like this? People not being dicks. Or said dicks finding something else better to do with their time.

"Microsoft and Sony are fucking retarded, literally monkeys behind computers," one of the members of Lizard Squad explained to The Daily Dot. "They would have better luck if they actually hired someone who knew what they were doing. Like, if they went around prisons and hired people who were convicted for stuff like…

This is like someone breaking into an art gallery and then, when ordinary people can't go to the gallery for 2 months because it's being repaired, claiming they just did it "to show that the owners should invest in some better security".

For the love of god. stop calling them hackers. call them Impudent Children or something

I can't wait to see the pictures of the police dragging those teens out of their mom's house and into a cop car.

Oh, right. Now I remember one of the reasons why I've had an Xbox the last two generations. PSN being down apparently means I can't even connect to the Dragon Age servers so I can't even play my single-player game? This is absurd. Why can Microsoft have Xbox Live up in relatively short order and not Sony with PSN?

What part don't some of you get that there is NOTHING you can to to stop DDOS attacks...NOTHING period, end of story.....You can TRY, try being the operative term to slow them down but if the SCRIPT KIDDIE pussy bitches(NOT HACKERS) are dedicated they will knock down your service....I hate when people that know…

Not everyone has a big happy family and sometimes the people you meet online and spend some much time with even if its just in a vitrual world and youve never seen them face to face you consider as your family

Does these still apply to people in different time zones that have spent all day with their family and now (at night) would like to use their consoles?

Sorry about my damned family though bro.

I don't understand how people can star this comment. Assuming it's even a serious comment and not attempted sarcasm; it's often hard to tell lately.

Bingo. The ones that say "both sides are bad!" or "have bad people" are simply supportive of Gamergate but would rather their true opinions remain hidden. I've seen a few people try that, once you quiz them on it it all becomes clear.

That annoys me, too. "Neither side is perfect! Your side is just as bad as mine!"

Leave OUR games alone. No one wants you in their community. No one is supporting you, and the relatively few (but endlessly annoying) people like you. Not Kotaku, not any developer in existence (except for maybe Hatred's dev team) - no one.

BAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I don't know what part about "Don't be a dick" makes you a SJW, because I just thought it made you human. Apparently you "gamers" are indeed a sub-human species obsessed with self-satisfaction.

"Hey, let's be friendly and tolerant"

And there you go. It was not even a few minutes before you came along and proved my point entirely.

Honestly, we do not deserve the nomination.