PSN Brought Back Online, Service Restored to Users

Yep, seemed to go down some point after 16:30 UK time.

Steam and Epic are down too, just like multiple websites and other apps. Interesting crash

Mine is playing up. There's even a question mark over my battery percentage. Without PSN it just doesn't know!

Are you guys doing an article on Sega possibly closing down Judgement? Just felt like that needs to be heard.

Of course, I haven't turned on my PS5 for a few days and just as I was going to do some online gaming, this happens

@Nepp67 You mean this story? https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2021/07/judgment_series_future_unclear_as_lead_actors_agency_reportedly_disrupts_segas_plans

@DertieBertie UPS too... there's something going on

@Voltan Will the Judgement game releasing soon at least be released?

Seems like a load of website servers are all down too as I can't access my banking stuff.

@TowaHerschel7 Yes Lost Judgment is on track. There's drama around PC ports not happening and potentially affecting if more games get developed. But nothing is confirmed as cancelled or anything.

It happened. It actually happened. Someone googled Google. We are all doomed. The internet swallow itself now and us with it.

Apparently the Akamai Edge DNS server is down which has affected 30,000 websites. Must be some server.

East of the Mississippi here and PSN is down for me. I was kicked from youtube about 30 minutes ago.

Noticed a very short time ago that friends owning same titles (when you scroll to particular game), was missing,then noticed Friends list was off-line altogether! Not so much concerned about that as I'm roughly still about 13gb/50mins away from finishing a 70gb download of Dark Pictures Anthology Little Hope! Not keen on restarting!!☹🤞

i blame it on the heat all the cables have melted we will be alright on saturday when it rains

There's only one possible explanation it's the start of the zombie apocalypse.

@Voltan Thanks!

Y2K on Internet explorer finally hit.

@joeyhopo33 no skynet has finally became self aware and the machines will rise since a server crash wouldn't happen day one of a zombie apocalypse.

It’s hotter than the surface of the sun 🥵 and psn is down 😫

I am actually in hell right now 🤪

This is why I try to hold on to some physical media and games that don’t require online play.

Back up again

It's back!

Something more to say

Probably too hot for zombies

Thats another reason why not to get ps5 digital edition. 😝 yuck.im old school physical disc all the way playas.ps5 disc version is the way to go.word up son

@playstation1995 But you can still play the games you have downloaded, i'm playing my digital version of R&C just fine for instance right now.

@WallyWest. Ok cool but i will always get the disc version.word up son

im still down on my end. still says connection cannot be connected due to time limit.
when will the us eastern side be fixed?

@TowaHerschel7 Yes. Lost Judgment is unaffected by whatever outcome is reached over this scuffle.

Ultimately i see this ending one of 2 ways. The actor in the lead role kicks off at his agency and they relent and allow a steam release, or SEGA recasts the lead/creates a new lead.

I really don't see the series coming to an end given they only just announced this as a franchise going forward which would retain the old yakuza battle syste.

Get out there and get some dam sun boys and gals! Maybe this is a good thing PSN is down 👍 good to get some vitamin D lol

@WallyWest correct as long as you have the digital licenses stored locally they can be played, unless you are game sharing then that is a different situation

It better not be the North Korean hackers again .

@Rob_230 The whole thing is very weird and I think been made out to be more important for the game franchise than actually is, no one outside of Japan cares who is doing the motion capturing anyway really. I wouldn't care if they just changed the lead actor, I'm definitely not playing it because I know who he is lol.
If the next one is a hit then Sega are not going to throw money away by not making another one of these.

@Denni5m exactly. Its a bit odd. I can't even tell you his name, and regardless of whether he is considered central to the series, Yakuza Like a Dragon has shown Sega can successfully tansition away from a character much more iconic in Kiryu.

@Rob_230 yeah true. When kiryu rocked up later in the game I was wishing I could play as him though lol!

What was more alarming to me on my ps5 was the fact that so many games failed to work properly with no psn. Nba2k was basically unplayable and f1 2021 was very annoying along with other games I can't remember now. Basically most games become useless now.

But but all digital, DRM and service subscriptions are the glorious future and pro consumers /s