Playstation Network 'suspended'

Millions of gamers are not able to to fool around online as the Playstation Network waste unavailable.

Users are saying blunder messages stating the network is "undergoing maintenance" or is "suspended".

In a blog post, makers Sony thanked users for their calm but warned the downtime - that has so far lasted more than 20 hours - could go on for "a day or two".

In new weeks, Playstation has been targeted by hackers organisation Anonymous.

The organisation appeared to repudiate being accountable is to attack, releasing a summary stating "for once you didn't do it".

The network has more than 70 million users worldwide, but Sony were not able to to explain how many players had been affected.

However, Twitter messages and blog posts have been posted from all over the world.

The problems have moreover affected other services running on the network. Film let site LoveFilm fixed to the BBC that their customers are now not able to to river drive-in theatre when using the Playstation service.

This outage is the ultimate in a array of problems is to network that has suffered lengthened durations of downtime over the past couple of weeks.

In response, upset gamers have flooded blogs, forums and Twitter with complaints.

"A full day and you guys still have no hint what is causing this," wrote user Slickshoes in reply to the company's blog post.

Another user, Max Smith, contacted the BBC to share his disappointment that Sony is not gripping gamers improved informed.

"To be honest I regard that Sony must be give more updates towards the gamers via their Twitter account. There has been no refurbish in the past 18 hours that is unequivocally creation the residents go crazy," he said.

Oli Welsh, from Eurogamer.net, mentioned the outage is a large complaint for Sony - mainly at Easter.

"As sufficient as the weather's lovely, a lot of gamers will be seeking deliver to tucking in to their prime pastime this week.

"It's moreover a flattering large week for new releases, the greatest we've had in a couple of months. There's a unequivocally key diversion forthcoming out called Portal 2 that has a great online mode that a lot of people now won't be able to access true away.

"For gamers it's a shame, and for Sony it's a problem."

Anonymous, the organisation that gained prominence over Wikileaks-related attacks, has formerly strongly criticised the Japan-based entertainment hulk over its treatment of George Hotz, an American hacker who unbarred the games console's closed working system.

Sony filed a legal case against the 21-year-old, arguing that his penetrate had authorised pirated games to be played on the machine.

The case was forsaken progressing this month after Mr Hotz concluded to pointer an claim banning him from identical poise in future.

A orator for Sony was not available for comment.