Update, 2:37 p.m. ET, 07/24/26
After being down for roughly eight hours, nearly all of PlayStation Network companies are back online. The solely PSN service nonetheless experiencing points is the PlayStation Store, however account administration, gaming and social, PlayStation Video, and PlayStation Direct are again up and operating.
The authentic story continues beneath…
Original story, 12:41 p.m. ET, 07/24/26
The PlayStation Network (PSN) is down. That means all of its on-line companies, reminiscent of account administration, the PlayStation Store, and gaming and social content material, are unavailable to gamers, leaving solely offline companies in impact. PSN has been down for greater than six hours, interrupting on-line gaming for a lot of, together with the highly anticipated open beta for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, which was set to start at this time.
With PSN down, PlayStation gamers are unable to take a look at the PlayStation 5 console-exclusive title. “We’re aware that some PlayStation players are experiencing login and network issues,” the Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls X account posted this morning. “Our team is actively investigating the problem and working to identify the cause. We’ll share updates as soon as we have information.”
Unfortunately for developer Arc System Works, which simply revealed that Phoenix Cyclops will be the first DLC character to hit Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, it sounds prefer it’s out of its palms. The PSN service page reveals all companies as “experiencing issues.” Those companies are as follows:
- Account administration
- Gaming and Social
- PlayStation Video
- PlayStation Store
- PlayStation Direct
While PSN being down isn’t nice, the timing could not be worse – PlayStation simply earlier this month introduced that it is ceasing production of physical discs for new games in January 2028. During PSN outages reminiscent of this, a bodily disc typically ensured gamers might not less than entry offline-playable content material saved on the disc, whereas some digital video games, even single-player ones, require an internet examine to play, leaving gamers unable to entry these video games when PSN is down. This transfer by PlayStation to finish bodily disc manufacturing is simply one other method the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S generation has been a race to the bottom.
Game Informer will replace this story when PSN comes again on-line.
