The PlayStation Network has been back up and running for a bit now, after a major outage took PlayStation 5 and PS4's online features offline for roughly 24 hours at the end of last week. To make up for the extended downtime,

Sony blamed an operational issue for the 20-hour service outage, which affected console gamers on the PlayStation Network over the weekend.

Sony’s PlayStation Network, which connects gamers online on its systems, experienced a massive outage that lasted about 24 hours.

Sony said on Sunday that all PlayStation Plus members would automatically receive an additional five days of service, after a global outage disrupted the PlayStation Network (PSN) for about 18 hours on Friday and Saturday.

Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The PlayStation Network was restored Saturday, more than 24 hours after a worldwide outage. PlayStation, which is owned by Sony Interactive, gave limited information about the disruption.

Users on social media had complained that they could not access their games after the unexplained outage began on Friday night.

Unlike many of you, I didn’t realise that PlayStation Network was down for nearly a full day this weekend, because I was touching grass. On Saturday morning Singapore time, a friend complained to me that he hadn’t been able to play Marvel Rivals on his PS5 because of a PSN outage – on Sunday morning,