I don't think they could have made that rescue more dramatic if there was a ticking bomb and they chose the red wire instead of the blue at the last second before it read 00:00.
Just received the XMB message. If you open the attachment it auto-fills a redemption code in the Playstation Store for a new copy of ARR (presumably a working one). It's compliments of SE, no charge.
Edited, Aug 24th 2013 3:22am by Xoie