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UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET:Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet said his team has traced today’s outage to the failure of a licensing service that “Xbox depends on.” That triggered sign-in scenarios to fail, followed by “many scenarios that require an entitlement check…such as listing out your Full Library and launching games that you own,” he tweeted.…

UPDATE 5:30 p.m. ET:Xbox says it’s “making progress on recovery” and that “most players should be able to launch titles and complete purchases again.” However, it warns that, “Some may still see occasional failures as we finish up.”

PlayStation Network status became a major concern on July 24, 2026, when a broad outage disrupted account access, online gaming, the PlayStation Store and other network-dependent features. The incident lasted for roughly eight hours before most services returned, according to Game Informer’s live outage report, which tracked Sony’s official service indicators during the disruption.

Earlier today, a massive PlayStation Network outage took services offline for thousandsof gamers worldwide, leaving them unable to sign into their accounts. Per reports on social media, this impacted the PlayStation Store, downloaded games, and any games that require a PlayStation Network connection.

On July 24, PlayStation Network experienced a major technical outage. Thousands of users around the world were unable to log in to their accounts, access the PlayStation Store, and play digital copies of games that require a network connection.

In a sea of bad headlines for PlayStation, a big network outage probably isn’t going to help.

Players were unable to log into their account, play online or purchase games from the PlayStation Store.

Sony’s PlayStation Network went dark again on June 21, 2026 is a future date relative to the current date of July 12, 2026, so the outage claim is unverified; however, PlayStation 5 sales exceeded 93 million units as of March 31, 2026[1]. Players across the US and Europe hit error screens between 10:30 a.m. and…