Our engineers are continuing to work hard to resolve the network issues users have experienced today. Thanks for your continued patience!
— Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) December 26, 2014
A massive influx of new Christmas gamers coupled with a denial of service attack brought both the Playstation Network and Xbox Live to their knees yesterday. While Microsoft appears to have partially recovered, Sony is still sucking wind – with no ETA on restoring service. And, beyond the consoles, many games themselves are down with back-end problems.
For real-time updates on your specific console and game, hit these links:
- Official Sony PSN status page
- Official Playstation Support on Twitter
- Official Playstation on Twitter
- DownDetector to monitor games like Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, and EA outages
Sadly, this isn’t the first time Sony’s been plagued by hackers and the aftermath, including a 2011 breach and extensive outage that led to credit monitoring and freebies. Hopefully, the 2014 PSN outage will be of shorter duration and with less negative impact since we still have several vacation gaming days ahead of us.