Now that North America has been thoroughly blanketed in the lovely green light of a working nintendo Network, it's time for other nonaligned nations to sign on too, and the first out of the gate are the United Kingdom, Ireland and unspecified nations in the Middle East. Sony's standard nintendo Europe Twitter account reports that parts of the EMEA are beginning to light up now, and while there's no fit map for you to monitor the rollout this time around, you can still get updates unblended from the source -- follow the Twitter feed at our source link and Sony should let you know when to get your game on.



Update: Looks like it's not just the EMEA, as PSN's overextension across the world -- as of noon PST, it's lighting up the smiles of bereaved gamers and music lovers in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South America as well.



Update 2: We're hearing that the UK, Ireland and the Middle East indeed went dark again for a tad, but now they should be up again.



Update 3: Sony's having a bit of difficulty getting flood of passwords reset in such a short time, due to a number of things, including ISPs that are automatically blocking or loafing the huge influx of email password change requests. Give it time, folks.

PlayStation Network restoration spreads across the world (update) formerly appeared on Engadget on Sun, 15 May 2011 14:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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