The Holiday Hacktacular Crisis is (Kinda Sorta) Over

Some of us got spangly new Xbox Ones or PS4s for Christmas. They weren't ‘spangly new' as such, what with being over a freaking year old at this point, but we won't be pernickety about that. The important thing is, if Santa did get his shit together and thrust some next-gen gametastic in your stocking, you'll be wanting to get online.

You know how it is with consoles today. You can't just blow on your chunky-ass N64 cartridge, wang it in the slot, power on and fandangle the TV channels until you find it. Those days are effing gone, grandpa. Now, we've got to dick around with updates and patches and all kinds of stuff before we can get our game on.

For a lot of this, you'll be wanting Xbox Live or PSN. Both of which died on their asses over the Christmas week, courtesy of some hackers with a terrible sense of timing. Lizard Squad, allegedly, were behind the cyber-attack, and gamers across the world think they're dicks.

Still, normal service is resuming now. Destructoid reports that Sony's online service is back on the air, and our festive gaming funtimes are back in business. Well, shakily. Happy new year, tech assassins!