Major Sony PlayStation Network Outage Affects Gamers Around the World [Video]

Sony’s PlayStation Network faced a significant outage on Tuesday, leaving gamers unable to access their accounts and affecting gamers worldwide.

The outage began late Monday and continued into Tuesday morning. According to PlayStation Network’s website, the company acknowledged that “some services are experiencing issues,” and that players “might have difficulty” logging in, creating accounts, launching games or getting video content.

Although Sony quickly assured users that they were working to resolve the problem, no immediate explanation was provided.

“We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” the company said.

The widespread frustration among gamers was reflected on social media and Downdetector, an outage tracker, where thousands of outage reports were filed within hours of the issue surfacing.

Sony updated its status page by Tuesday morning in the U.S., announcing that “all services are up and running.” The company has yet to offer further details about what caused …