Tag: psn
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Will Xbox Live and PSN Be Down On Christmas?
The one thing we’ve noticed about the high level form of geek is they truly believe people care about video games as much as they do. Therefore, almost every year it seems, disgruntled weirdo beardos threaten to take down online gaming services on Christmas. Yes, it really is this cringe worthy and petty. The…
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PlayStation Network (PSN) Down for Maintenance on May 11th
Early warning to PlayStation folks, Sony plans to pull the plug on the PSN between Monday 11th May and Tuesday 12th May for routine maintenance. It’s said that the down time should last around ten hours and will affect a number of key features including account management, PlayStation Store and PlayStation Video on PS4, PS3…
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Microsoft and Sony Talk DDOS Defences
Outages on both Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PSN online gaming services proved to be a real pain to players, not to mention an embarrassing thorn in the side of the two companies. Whilst the hackers are still at large, the people over at Microsoft and Sony have both decided to put their heads together…
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Sony PSN Down for Scheduled Maintenance 12 Feb 2015
Sony’s PSN service and online connectivity is currently down due to some scheduled maintenance which is set to last for a good 3.5 hours. Last night Sony experienced a large amount or un-scheduled outages to its PSN service which has led many fans to get a bit angry, but today’s outage has been pre planned…
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Sony Offers 5 Days Extra PlayStation Plus Membership
Sony has begun compensating it’s PlayStation Plus subscribers for the interruptions to services over the Festive period by issuing a five day extension to membership to cover the downtime and also a 10% discount in the PS Store. In an email being send around to customers now, Sony thanks it’s faithful for their patience and…
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Sony Offering Gifts Following PSN Outage
Sony had a tricky 2014 in terms of hacking, and now in the new year the company is set to offer some incentives for Sony PlayStation Network users unable to get on the gaming social service over the holiday period. Hackers took down the network fairly easily over the holidays, preventing access for users trying…
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Sony PSN down now for “Scheduled maintenance” 17th Nov for 6 hours
Sony’s PlayStation Network will once again be down today from 5pm GMT for some scheduled maintenance, which will see some users not be able to go online and access the PSN services. The PlayStation Network is offline for scheduled maintenance from 17:00 on Monday 17 November 2014 until 23:00 GMT or 9am PT / 12pm…
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UPDATED: PS4 2.0 Update Rolls out – PSN Goes Down For Some
[UPDATED:] Sony has now acknowledged the PSN issues which have been affecting the PS4 system since update 2.0 went available this morning and PlayStation Community manager Chris Owen reports: “There is a little bit of network instability at the moment, engineers are investigating”. We’re no nearer to knowing a timescale on a resolution to the…
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Microsoft Devs Mock Sony on Twitter After PSN Font Fail
A typeface designed for Xbox One title Sunset Overdrive has been used in a Sony PSN advert creating all kinds of amusement from the devs behind Microsoft’s latest exclusive. The font fail appears on the PlayStation Store’s promotion for its Sale of the Dead – a selection of Halloween treats for PSN users which includes…
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Sony PSN down 7 hours Monday the 13th October for “routine maintenance”
Sony’s PlayStation Network will be done again on Monday the 13th of October for a scheduled 7 hours whilst the company performs “routine maintenance”. In the US this will be between from 10am PT to 5pm PT, which means for us in the UK it will be between 6PM and 4AM where gamers might lose…
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Sony’s PS4 Update 1.70 to UK and Europe 30th April
Sony has announced the upcoming PS4 1.70 major software update will be arriving on our European shores sooner than expected, as next Wednesday April the 30th will see the new software go live. The company announced the ins and outs of the update last week including the major new feature called SHAREfactory. Heads-up: PS4 firmware…
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Sony’s PS4 Update 1.70 Coming Soon with new SHAREfactory video editor
Sony has revealed that they will be bring ing a major Playstation 4 console software update to the gaming machine “soon” and that the update will bring a brand new video and content sharing service called SHAREfactory to the PS4. The PS4 1.70 version software will be lainding “soon” and Sony has classed the update…