Yeah, that's what I was talking about. One might say that it's a minor thing and I would agree, but they acknowledged the issue just a few days after the thread about achievements was created (link), asking the users to send them details about the issue, only to totally ignore them afterwards.

Direct proof would be nearly impossible to get when you hire someone to do the hacking for you remotely, i don't think they are so stupid to use their own servers to do it

However looking at recent development in the past years and remembering some facts bout sony, plus the absolute carped bombing they have done in trying to cover up No Man Sky preview or leakage of any kind, this would have been a pretty logical next step

While not direct proof of an attack, let's see how usually sony manage failures and marketing, starting with recent and so so recent things:

10 Biggest Sony Fails: http://arcadesushi.com/biggest-sony-fails/
Scientist Man Analyzes Ghostbusters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWROBiX1eSc

I the spirit of the second above, but a more...direct video, not as "polite"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-YwMACD4sw

The first show how bad sony manage marketing and product placement, while a little generic their method can be mostly referred a brutal and ineffective, with little substance to usually back their claims

The second is another of their product placement ideas, not the first time they try to pull of something like this either, others bad film sponsored by them where carpet bombed as well, but in the end, bad review for mediocre movies, just like this ones:
http://fortune.com/2015/08/14/studio-box-office-sony-2015/

Let's also not forget how many time sony has been hacked and their customer database plus mail was compromised, twice

If there is one thing sony learned is that a bad preview will spoil your marketing and your revenue,it's inevitable, and knowing legal action won't work to silence an honest review, what other option you have so close to a massive launch? A game where sony invested so much in?

With the two suffered hacking, they learned how much damage these attacks can do, their PS network has been shut down at least another time using a similar method a few years ago

As i said this doesn't prove sony are behind the attack, but frankly, given the timing that can be calculated based on jim sterling facebook page, and sony aggressive product placement + lies + attempted misogynist bull ad, it's actually quite credible

Maybe the next time sony get hacked we will see some e-mail regarding this, for now their behavior and marketing methods + extreme convenience and timing, are quite suspicious to me

Also, after the game come out, this "confession" get published
http://www.pcgamer.com/no-mans-sky-maybe-isnt-the-game-you-imagined-says-hello-games-founder/

Maybe someone will really like this game no matter what, but the marketing for this game ended up portraying it as an adventure game of sort, a journey toward the center of the galaxy, something this game doesn't seems to be

Maybe because regionally-priced $66.09 would seem a bit steep for a chill-and-relax space sim?

TINFOIL HATS! TINFOIL HATS!

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SOMEONE HOLD ME A NOBODY THAT MADE A GARBAGE REVIEW THAT LIKELY ANGERED A FAN
GOT DDOS WHAT EVER SHALL WE DO??????

I KNOW BLAME THE GAME COMPANY CAUSE ...IT IS ALL THEIR FAULT AND TRUMPS FAULT THAT TRASH CRIMINAL PROTESTERS ARE BURNING FLAGS AND TRYING TO KILL HIM WHILE FLYING BLACK SUPREMIST AND MEXICAN FLAGS...

WAIT WRONG ONE.....

IT IS ALL THE GAME COMPANIES FAULT CAUSE I HAVE VIRUS ON MY COMPUTER AND THEIR OTHER GAME NO WORK AND I MAD THEY WOULD NOT TEACH ME HOW TO INTERNET


Seriously I looked over the review it was nothing but a moron rambling..
Want to see what the game looks like?

GO TO YOUTUBE THERE IS MEDIA LETS PLAYS ON YOUTUBE

Sir, in the hats, are there random facts printed that I can twist to fit the conclusion I already made in my head?

Yes but Sony even if it did engage in this wouldn't do legal takedown for the other leaks and a DDoS for Jim alone. And ofc if it can't be proved beyond doubt that Sony had a role in this, they aren't legally liable to pay compensation / be fined.

You wouldn't say that if you knew what's been going on. Sony Entertainment has been going around giving copyright strikes to any Youtuber that they find simply talking, that's right, talking about pre-release details of No Man's Sky. People simply reading from the patch notes were landed with a video take-down and a strike. This is a complete abuse of the copyright takedown process. You can read a case here.

Sony Entertainment and No Man's Sky abuse

People are allowed to talk about what they want whether anyone likes it or not, unless it's a call to incite as that isn't protected under free speech. Of course, if a Youtuber includes gameplay footage and music from the game, then that's a different story, although still unfair especially if it falls under fair-use, like doing a video-game review.

Anyhow, doesn't Jim Sterling have other social network accounts? What did he say?

What about Twitch? I spent a few hours yesterday watching a front page stream about NMS, and the streamer did say that it was an official PS4 endorsed stream of the game. So I'd say the ban has been lifted with the game's release, even if the game still isn't out for PC.

The sony hacked database and e-mail, that happened twice, is confirmed news, did they payed compensation to their customer for the stolen data? Suffered any effective legal action due to this?

No

Did they at least fix the damn thing, or say they were officially sorry, like really sorry?

Considering they got hacked twice with pretty much the same method, no

So if you expect compensation for this, where fully proved thing got nothing, even if they are involved....forget it

In my post i briefly wrote, because there is much more, so much more possible things that can be said about sony bull, what their attitude and behavior towards marketing and customer is, added to the timing and the quite precise attack, it's quite curious at the very least, suspicious even

Also about not censoring anyone else, remember the jim sterling review has been the FIRST official review the game got, pretty much everyone one else where still reviewing the thing, or some one like eurogamer decided to postpone it to get more patches:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-08-08-our-no-mans-sky-review-will-be-late-and-heres-why

Metacritic show how jim sterling review is pretty much the first one, that is not positive, 10 Aug:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/no-mans-sky

Everyone else, waiting

Also apparently more then a few people was mislead by the marketing, to add to the "confession" i posted above

http://www.polygon.com/features/2016/8/9/12408750/no-mans-sky-first-impressions-review-preview-10-hours

I'm not sure about Twitch, to be honest. However, based on what you say, it looks the ban has indeed been lifted. But tactics like these, does leave a sour taste.

I figured it was lifted monday... when media had review

http://www.no-mans-sky.com/2016/08/update-1-03/

First patch notes.

Tactics like what? "Please don't discuss our game until it's released"?
Sterling's review was posted on the 10th, which was post-release. It was also the first review, and linked around quite a bit. My guess would be that it wasn't a company that took it down, but other readers.
Either way, the site is back up, and Jim doesn't seem to think it was Sony trying to silence him. Feel free to believe what you want though.

What I've seen the game it seems there is only animals and some empty trade-stations,where you basically use some computer to buy stuff, would be nice if there would be some dialogue in planets, is there?