Once again, we turn to our panel of experts to inject their raw intelligence directly into our quivering veins!

The PlayStation Network went down without explanation on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, leaving millions of PlayStation 3 players in a cold, lonely hell of campaign-only gaming. After two days of rumors and nerd rage, Sony finally admitted they'd taken the network offline themselves in response to attacks on their system. By the following Monday, they still hadn't offered an estimate on when PSN might return. Naturally, this happened the same week Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat -- both multiplayer-heavy games -- released.

Did Sony do the right thing? The wrong thing? Both? Neither?

"I call it damn sloppy work. I'd have made it look like an accident. Like a nuclear bomb kind of accident."

- Captain Price, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

"Sorry, Sony, but your gamers are on another network. YAH-HAH!"

- Toad, Super Mario Galaxy

"I usually celebrate Easter by stealing lost Christian artifacts and eating chocolate bunnies, but I guess we can change it up...destroy a major computer network instead. That's nice, too. Hey, maybe we can make this an annual thing." 

- Nathan Drake, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

"Amuse yourself as you please, PSN. If your meat-slaves show any sign of discontent, destroy them and create new ones. That's how a god does it."

- SHODAN, System Shock 2

"Control, everything seems secure here. Never thought I'd say that about a Microsoft network. Delta out."

- Marcus Fenix, Gears of War 3

"Forgive me, Lord PSN! Tell us who crackin' that chaka and we'll spank them bottoms!"

- Princess Meden, Patapon

"As a professional courier, it always takes me 48 hours to deliver a message to millions of angry customers by blog post. Oh, sorry...I meant to say 48 seconds."

- Faith, Mirror's Edge

"What kind of pansy shuts down when he's attacked? I'd show those bastards how ergonomically perfect the PSP Go is for shoving it up their ass. Like there's another use for the stupid thing."

- Duke Nukem, Duke Nukem Forever

"Yeah, so glad I got PSN Plus. That was money well spent. I absolutely don't feel the burning need to go all SAVAGE ELEMENTAL FURY ON THAT POSER KRATOS TO ATTAIN BLOODY, SOON-TO-BE-RETCONNED VENGEANCE. My parole officer reads these things."

- Scorpion, Mortal Kombat

"Hey, they've got a serious responsibility to protect their system. Mainly from me. But I promise to lay off in exchange for Kevin Butler's third nipple. It's the one that gives him his power."

- Cortana, Halo 3

[Jumps up and down furiously.]

- Chell, Portal 2

"Near as I figure, you get what you pay for."

- John Marston, Red Dead Redemption