This article was published on 2/9 and republished on 2/10. PSN is back online after a 24 hour outage, almost to the minute, the longest since the nearly month-long downtime after a hack back in 2011.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Update: As of 7 PM EST, a full 24 hours later, PSN is ...

[UPDATE] The PlayStation Network is back online and operating normally. Sony said players should now be able to access online services "without any problems." The downtime began on Friday, February 7, ...

PSN is still down for PS4 and PS5 users after 24 hours with the outage continuing from Friday into Saturday. This makes it one of the largest PSN outages ever, and 5 hours (and counting) longer than ...

Sony is under criticism from PS5 and PS4 players for excessive censorship on PSN stemming from its deployment of chat filters ...