Keeping you informed: PlayStation Network maintenance is scheduled for this week.

Sony's announced that it's set to do some work on the PSN for a few hours this week, starting Thursday evening. The maintenance will run from 16:00PM, 15th December through to 02:00, 16th December UK time.

During the downtime you might have some difficulties logging in. If you're signed in before the maintenance kicks off then you won't be affected.

Realistically our experience with these maintenance periods is that not a lot changes at all. It always seems to work for us. In fact, we bet you don't even notice there's "maintenance" going on behind the scenes.