The PlayStation Network is down

5 Jan 2016

Steve Wright

The PlayStation Network (PSN) is “experiencing issues”, according to Sony.

Account management, gaming and social and more are all experiencing connection difficulties, meaning gamers will have trouble launching games, apps and online features.

Attempting to logon to the PSN — at least in Australia — will throw up a message that reads, “The PlayStation Network is currently undergoing maintenance”, though no such work has been advised.

You can head to the PlayStation Network US or AUS Status Pages for more information.

The PSN has a experienced a handful of DDoS attacks since mid-2014.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.