Personal computing emerged in the 1980s as something Hollywood couldn't ignore, with films like "Tron, " about a hacker who gets trapped in a computer game, and 1983's "WarGames, " about a nerdy high school student who nearly causes a nuclear apocalypse after breaking into a military-operated computer network.
Some joked about whether Treyarch was making Anonymous, the real-life hacker group dedicated to promoting free flow of information, the game's main villain.
Five days after a hacker invaded Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation Network resulting in a lengthy outage, the video game giant has yet to offer a comprehensive explanation.