PlayStation Network has been down for just over 12 hours While the outage appeared to settle after an initial spike, it has worsened again in the last few hours We don't yet have an official cause or ETA for when PSN will get back to normal Editor's note: The PSN outage now appears to be over.

PlayStation Network was hit with an outage and remained offline for many users through most of Saturday leaving them frustrated.

Sony blamed an operational issue for the 20-hour service outage, which affected console gamers on the PlayStation Network over the weekend.

Sony is announcing the compensation that players will get for their trouble after the PSN hack that prevented everyone from playing PlayStation games.