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PlayStation Network is Currently Down, All Related Services Affected [Update: PSN Back Up]

by Tony Polanco11

UPDATE

As of the time of this writing (10:19pm EST) PSN and all of its services have been restored. You may return to your regularly scheduled gaming.

Original Story

Unlike 2015, the PlayStation Network was up and running during the holiday 2015. Here in the new year however, things seem to have hit a snag as PSN and all of its related services are down. This is a widespread outage that is affecting all users.

The official status page of PlayStation Network has all of PSN’s services listed as experiencing issues. This include such things as account management, gaming and social, PlayStation Now, PlayStation Video, PlayStation Vue, PlayStation Store, and PlayStation Music.

While it is too early to say whether or not this was an attack on the network, it isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Back during the holiday season of 2014, a DDoS attack was initiated on PSN which affected all services. A similar attack was promised for the 2015 holiday season though that never came to pass. It’s entirely possible that this latest outage is an attack, especially considering that no maintenance was scheduled for today.

Stay tuned for more on this as it develops.

Sources: PlayStation Network status page, AskPlayStation on Twitter

Considering normal life mundane, Tony prefers to spend most of his time absorbed in fictional worlds that stimulate his imagination. Tony is a geek through and through, and his love for Comic Books, Science Fiction, Heavy Metal, and Video Games knows no bounds. He uses his natural writing talent and communication skills to express to the world why it's awesome to live a geek-centric lifestyle. Former Senior Editor of STFUandPlay and Staff Writer for DualShockers. Current Executive Editor of this here site, Tony writes news, previews, editorials and is the host of the Throwdown, Throwdown your Questions and Spoiler Alert podcasts. Tony encourages the team to do their best by being all George Washington and getting bullet holes in his cape from leading by example. Tony also still dreams of being a superhero one day.