This weekend, Sony’s PlayStation Network was down for more than 24 hours, one of the longest unscheduled outages for a major gaming network in recent history. Many of PlayStation’s online services were down Friday and Saturday, interrupting many weekends and stoking some sensible fear about the future of digital game ownership.

The network outage previews a troubling future for ownership of games, as the industry’s reliance on network connections and digital copies reared its ugly head in the face of the downtime. (And even more troubling, the outage even impacted some people’s ability to play their physical games.) But I wanted to share my own personal experience with the outage, too.

Gearing up for the Super Bowl, I’ve been in a sports gaming mood of late. I’ve been playing a lot of the hockey roguelite Tape to Tape........

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