Scheduled maintenance is nothing new for the PlayStation Network, so you should know the drill. Thursday from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Pacific (that's 11 a.m. Thursday to 2 a.m. Friday Eastern and 4 p.m. Thursday to 8 a.m. Friday BST), PlayStation will be tweaking the PSN.

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During this time, you won't be able to access the PlayStation Store or PlayStation Home and you won't be able to screw around with Account Management. The silver lining: online play and online apps will still work "provided that you have signed into the network within 5 days prior to the start of the maintenance period," according to the PlayStation Blog While the Network is down, why don't you catch up on IGN's PlayStation Conversations ? Here's Colin and I arguing about PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. Yes, this is a cheap plug.

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