ThePlayStation Network is down, preventing nearly 70 million people from gamingonline. The timing couldn’t be worse, as the outage coincides with the releaseof several popular PlayStation games, such as Mortal Kombat, SoCom 4, and thebeta release of inFamous 2. Speaking of infamous” The hacker group “Anonymous”was initially linked to the outage, since it paralyzed the PlayStation networkearlier this month, but the group claims it’s not responsible this time.
The PlayStation outage comes just days after Amazon’s cloud service paralyzedpopular websites like Foursquare, Hootsuite, and Reddit.
