PSN down yet again

Social media sites are alight with fans irritated by yet another PSN outage. There have been several outages over the past few weeks, most notably over the 4th of July weekend. The frequency in which players are being locked out of enjoying their online games or being able to hand Sony more money is rather concerning.

The official PSN status tracker has been updated to reflect these issues:

• Gaming and Social Features: You may be experiencing issues related to launching games, applications, and/or social features such as trophies, messaging, or friends list. We appreciate your patience while we address this.

• PlayStation Video: You may be experiencing issues related accessing Video Unlimited content. We appreciate your patience while we address this

• PlayStation Store: You may be experiencing issues related to features on PlayStation^®Store. We appreciate your patience while we address this.

Sony still has not announced why these outages have been occurring, but they don't seem to have been planned for on Sony's end, so it's not likely to actual maintenance. Hopefully, PSN servers aren't under attack again in the same manner as they were last Christmas.