PSN down for maintenance this week

Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation Network will be down for scheduled maintenance on 17 January.

The service will be offline for 12 hours between 4pm GMT and 4am GMT as Sony tries to improve the network.

The PlayStation Store, account management, account registration, and transactions via consoles will all be unavailable during the maintenance.

Earlier this week Sony released a patch for the PlayStation Store, which speeds up load times and reduces stability issues.