Last year, both Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live were taken down on Christmas by a DDoS Attack—that is, a coordinated barrage of falsified incoming traffic on their servers. On a day when so many people will be opening brand new
Some PlayStation Network services are not working for everyone. Gamers are running into problems with some social features with people on Twitter pointing out that they cannot add new names to their friends list or send messages. So far, however, most
Thanks for your patience today – stay tuned for details on PS Plus, PS Now, and video rental extensions. — PlayStation (@PlayStation) January 5, 2016. Thanks for your patience today – stay tuned for details on PS Plus, PS Now, and video rental extensions.
Sony's "Network Service Status" page only showed that the problems were affecting all of the company's platforms, including the PlayStation 3 and 4 and web services. It said that people were having problems getting online and that its "engineers are
Sony has confirmed it's aware of the problems. "We are still working on resolving today's issues with PSN," tweeted SCEA's official support line. "Thanks for your continued patience." I just tried again, a few minutes before 4:00pm Pacific, and I'm