After suffering from an outage on Christmas Day, both Sony PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox Live are recovering and working to bring the services back online.
The outage prevented users from registering a new account, playing with other gamers and accessing entertainment channels.
The Lizard Group claimed responsibility for the outage, and said that they hacked the online stores so that the public would be aware of the weakness of cyber security.
"[We did it] largely to raise awareness regarding these issues," said a spokesperson for Lizard Group in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live.
"Yes, we are also doing it to amuse ourselves but there is definitely the aspect of the public good involved."
Three days later, Xbox Live posted on Saturday that the site is now accessible, while PlayStation is not yet fully restored, but reported that network issues have been reduced, according to BBC News.
PlayStation tweeted on Saturday saying: "Update: PS4, PS3, and Vita network services are gradually coming back online - thanks for your patience."
Meanwhile, analysts are not seeing the recent attack as related to "The Interview," but rather a group of people seeking attention.
"The timing suggests that this is an attack that we can put in the category of adolescents who are looking for a bit of glory," Pierre Samson of the European Circle Security and Information Systems said to the Economic Times.
"There is a very small probability that there was a direct link with the attack on Sony Pictures. You can order an attack to online services fairly easily with few resources."
Both Microsoft and Sony have not released any comments yet on the hacking incident, nor have either of them confirmed whether or not they think it was related to "The Interview."
