Sony’s maintenance page has revealed that the PlayStation Network will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on Monday, 23rd March 2015, for approximately 2.5 hours in the evening. The maintenance will begin at 16:00 GMT and last until 18:30 GMT.
Sony has announced that the PlayStation Network will be undergoing scheduled maintenance this Thursday, 12th February 2015 for approximately three and a half hours. The maintenance will begin at 5pm GMT / 9am PST and will last until 8:30pm GMT / 12:30pm PST.
Sony has released the 10% discount code to compensate gamers for the downtime suffered during the Holiday period last year. The code is available from today until 9am GMT on January 26th 2015, and will give you 10% off on purchased (with some restrictions).
Over the Christmas period, the PlayStation Network suffered a DDoS attack which took out the network for a number of days. The situation frustrated new PS4 owners and new ones alike, and to compensate everyone affect, Sony is extending PlayStation Subscriptions for everyone.
Sony has restored PlayStation Network connectivity for online multiplayer after the DDoS attack to the network over Christmas last week. While the overall network is back online, there are some areas that are still inaccessible, namely the Account Areas on the PlayStation website.
Sony has announced that the PlayStation Network will be undergoing maintenance on Monday, October 13th 2014, until the early hours of Tuesday. The maintenance window will disrupt your evening gaming session, as the maintenance starts from 6pm BST, and will last until 1am. Sony hasn’t given any indication on what the maintenance will involve, but PSN access will be unavailable.
The PlayStation Network maintenance that was schedules to take place on Monday has been rescheduled for later today, Sony has announced. The maintenance will start from 16:00 BST today, and last until 05:00 BST tomorrow morning, effectively ruining your evening gaming session. It also appears that the original maintenance period has been extended, most likely as a result the DDoS attack on Sunday.
After yesterday’s PlayStation Network downtime, network access has been restored and the PSN is back online. The reason for the downtime was because of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), which saw artificial traffic slow down and even crash the PlayStation Network servers. Sony says there is no evidence of any intrusion to the network and no evidence of any unauthorised access to users’ personal information.
Sony has announced scheduled maintenance for the PlayStation Network for Monday, 25th August 2014. If you’re based in the UK, the maintenance is sure to put a dampener on your Bank Holiday gaming, which is scheduled to take place between 17:40 BST and 00:50 BST on Tuesday, 26th August 2014. If you want to play online during the maintenance period, make sure you sign-in before the start of the window.
Just when you thought you can have a nice long weekend playing games, Sony decides to schedule some PlayStation Network maintenance right Easter Monday. A tweet (which has since been removed) states that the PSN will be down for maintenance for 12 hours starting on Monday afternoon.
