Apologies for the short notice: the PlayStation Network is due to go offline for maintenance today (24th June 2010). The maintenance will take place between 4PM BST and 8PM BST.
However, I'm currently being told that PSN itself will only be taken offline for gaming between 4PM and 5PM BST. During this time, you will be unable to sign in and may be signed out automatically once the maintenance starts.
After 5PM BST you should be able to resume usage of PSN once more. Please understand that work will be carried out until 8PM BST tonight, you may experience unexpected behavior if you are signed in before that time.
As always, we will use this thread to keep you informed of updates, changes to scheduling or any other problems we encounter. You can use this thread to tell us about any problems you experience during the maintenance.
Again, apologies for the short notice:
Muster