PlayStation Network will go down tonight for scheduled maintenance

Sony is going to bang some hammers on its online gaming service tonight, and that could cause some minor connectivity troubles.

PlayStation Network is getting scheduled maintenance tonight from 9:30 p.m. Pacific through 11:30 p.m. Pacific (12:30 a.m. Eastern through 2:30 a.m. Eastern), according to the company’s status website. This shouldn’t have a major effect on anyone who already has a PSN account. You should still have access to most games and applications during this time, but the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Video, and account-management features will not function throughout the maintenance period — but this won’t impact your digital games or apps like PlayStation Vue.