PlayStation PSN Sony By Ethan Gach Published July 24, 2026 | Comments 32 The PlayStation Network is down this morning as everyone from Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls players the Sony-published game is in the middle of a free beta weekend to people who just want to log into their accounts face server … …
… Van Vliet continues his explanation: We are transitioning ownership of the underlying licensing service to the XBOX team while our engineers are actively hardening the services and infrastructure for future updates. …
… It's an internal service at Microsoft that is shared across multiple products, not some random system. …
… Now, as the company continues running damage control on the situation, Xbox technology chief Scott Van Vliet says that shouldn’t have happened, and that a future update will prevent any future outages from locking players out of playing their disc-based games. …
… Its fourth-quarter earnings report showed a 10-percent drop in content and services year-over-year, followed by a 13 percent drop in Xbox hardware. By contrast, Xbox content and services reported 13-percent quarterly growth year-over-year at this time in 2025. …
… The S2000’s 2,010Wh capacity and five AC outlets make it genuinely useful for multi-appliance outages, not just phone charging. …
… Case in point, angry fans are now organizing an “economic and gameplay blackout” for August, which urges PlayStation owners to turn off their consoles and log out of all PlayStation services for seven consecutive days. …
… Once again, it’s important to note that this is a service that Microsoft 365 Family subscribers are paying roughly $130 a year for. …
… The London-based team swelled to 40 people during the peak of development, however, and then the streaming giant removed the game from its service six months after launch as its own strategy around gaming completely shifted . “I think going forward, we’ll see that we’ve got a core team and any grow… …
… It’s basically the worst thing that could have happened to a live-service game that’s already fighting for its life. …