PSN could be down for two days

Bad news for everyone who wants to get stuck into Portal 2's co-op or the new SOCOM 4 multiplayer - PSN could be down for as long as two days, Sony has said.

Issues arose with the European and American PlayStation Network operations yesterday evening when players (including this editor) found they were unable to sign into their PSN ID. Sony acknowledged the problem late last night, and the EU PS Blog peculiarly stated this morning that the service was "down for maintenance". Although 'maintenance' on the launch week of Portal 2 and SOCOM 4 would seem unlikely.


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Being more candid with users, the US PS Blog has just posted an update: "While we are investigating the cause of the Network outage, we wanted to alert you that it may be a full day or two before we're able to get the service completely back up and running," it says.

"Thank you very much for your patience while we work to resolve this matter. Please stay tuned to this space for more details, and we'll update you again as soon as we can."

The PlayStation Network was reportedly attacked by hactivist group Anonymous earlier this month with the group releasing a statement soon after saying that it had suspended that line of attack. It's unclear if today's outages are linked.

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