PlayStation Network down, games crashing, calendars bugging [Update]

Update: SCEA’s posted an update on the PlayStation.Blog. Apparently those with 120gb/250gb PlayStation 3 slims shouldn’t be affected anymore. Hopefully it’ll be fixed for everyone by morning.

Original: Hold your horses before starting up that PlayStation 3 tonight. According to reports from multiple PlayStation 3 owners, an 8001050F error code is appearing upon sign in of the PlayStation Network. This is leading to very unfortunate side-effects like corrupt trophy data and the inability to acess PlayStation Network. These issues are preventing players from playing certain games like Heavy Rain, considering it needs the sync trophy data when starting up.

Sony have already said they’re “looking into” the issue. Many users with old PlayStation 3’s (the phatties) are reporting their date was set back to December 31, 1999 — likely due some sort of February 29 confusion.

Until Sony addresses the issue, play it safe and keep your console off. Good thing I read about this before I started up my PS3 tonight.

PSN is down, some titles experiencing game-crashing errors [update] [JoyStiq]