Pray to the PSN gods

When you're chowing down on your turkey sandwiches and complaining about the quality of the PlayStation Network this Christmas, spare a thought for the unfortunate engineers tasked with keeping everything online over the next few days. At the time of typing, Sony's service is unsurprisingly facing some severe issues, as an influx of users attempt to connect.

The company's said on Twitter that it's aware of the latest outage, and that its team is working hard to fix things. From what we can tell, this isn't your typical downtime, as parts of the PSN are functioning fine in our neck of the woods (UK) – but our friends list is prompting a scheduled maintenance error. It seems to us that it's just getting bombarded with traffic at the moment.

To be honest, with plenty of people expecting PS4s for presents, we suspect that things will be a teensy bit shaky for the next few days. Is that good enough? Probably not – but as long as the platform holder's response is swift, then there shouldn't be too much to complain about. And failing that, there's always Monopoly, right?