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Four hours after PSN issues first began and unfortunately, it doesn't seem as though Sony are making any headway with fixing the issues currently disrupting the PlayStation Network.

In fact, it looks as though things are potentially getting worse.

Since our last update, roughly 90 minutes ago, the PlayStation Server Status page has changed from amber warnings, to red.

Now, there's no official explanation as to what difference that makes, especially since 90 minutes ago online services appeared to be just as knackered as they are currently.

But if Hollywood films have taught us anything, it's that a red warning light is significantly worse than an amber warning light.

Ask PlayStation UK have also pinned a message to the top of the twitter account which reads:

"We are aware that some users are experiencing issues logging into PSN. Thank you for your patience as we investigate."

Clearly, a move as they were inundated with the exact same complaint and unable to respond to everyone with the exact same message.

Sorry, but there's nothing you can do, this appears to be the issue on Sony's end that's killing the PSN network as we speak.

Maybe it's got something to do with the new PlayStation System Update and features being tested, which look to have gone live earlier today.

The only good news (if you want to see it that way) is that these issues appear to be impacting just about everyone the world over. Our friend's at SixthAxis report that Twitter users in Spain, Canada, the Netherlands, France, the U.S.A., Mexico and "well pretty much everywhere" are having trouble.

So at least we're all in the same leaky boat. With any luck that might help expedite Sony into fixing it.

Stay tuned for more details.

Two hours have passed since Sony PSN first started experiencing issues and whilst the problems had appeared to subside at first, network and server trouble has gone haywire in the last 20 minutes (unfortunately we were travelling back from work and couldn't update the page).

A quick look shows that down detector reports have skyrocketed to over 4000 reports.

Frustratingly though, the Sony server status page hasn't changed one bit.

All services are still showing an amber warning with a message which simply reads: "Some services are experiencing issues."

Even more annoyingly the PlayStation support twitter account, @AskPS_UK, still doesn't appear to have shared any information whatsoever in relation to what the problem is or how long it might take to solve.

Although the account is responding to fans who are (rightfully) complaining online with variations on the following message:

"We are aware of network issues that we're looking into. If you've got access problems, please keep an eye on (https://status.playstation.com/) and attempt to log in later on"

Stay tuned for more details (we haven't even taken out coat off yet!)

Original Story - UK PS4 gamers are facing a frustrating evening as the PSN PlayStation Network appears to be down, or at the very least suffering from major issues.

The popular service seemed to hit trouble in the last half hour and Independent outage website Down Detector has seen a spike in reports that PSN is not working properly across the UK and especially Europe.

The outage tracker monitors social mentions around certain topics to detect outages across the world.

And Sony's own Network Status Page is also showing services as being disrupted. A quick look at the page is showing that all services are impacted.

This includes anything related to Account Management, Gaming And Social, PlayStation Now, PlayStation Video, PlayStation Store and PlayStation Music.

The only advice offered by the page is the following message:

"You may have some difficulty accessing PlayStation content. Our engineers are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, and we thank you for your patience."

At the same time Fortnite Servers also appear to be down for players across the board, something which the official Fortnite Twitter account has only recently acknowledged in the last 5 minutes, tweeting the following message to fans:

"We are currently experiencing matchmaking issues across all modes. We are investigating and will keep you updated once the issue is resolved."

The PlayStation support account on Twitter, AskPS_UK, has also addressed this, telling one fan:

"Epic Games run the online services for Fortnite however we are currently having a few issues as you can see here"

So as you can see there are a variety of server issues ongoing across multiple services.

This is a breaking story - stand by for more details.