Steam and PlayStation Network services like the PlayStation store are down today after an apparent network outage. So far, there's no explanation for the outage, but users are unable to access Steam to purchase or download new games. The same can be said for the PlayStation network.
User reports on the website Down Det♕ector have spiked in the past hour reporting problems with and . Neither Sony nor Valve has provided any explan♓ation for the outage.
Certain Steam services are still available, however. Friends lists and game libraries can still be accessed, and games already present in libraries can still be downloaded. It seems the outage specifically affꦏects the Steam store, preventing users from purchas🙈ing new games.
There are also reports of Fortnite being caught up in whatever is affecting these game services, accor𝓡ding to the Fortnite Status Twitter account. The Epic Games Store by the outage. Social media services such as Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok are unaffected.
According to , the source of t♕he outage seems to be Akamai, one of the biggest ISP networks in the world. "We are aware of an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service," 💯the company wrote on its . "We are actively investigating the issue."
Akamai haღs promised to provide updates every 30 minutes on its .
It's not just the games industry that has been affected. According to , websites and services around the world are down from banking and financial sites to travel sites like Delta and Southwest Airlines.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that might be " impacting access to many internet resources, including Oracle cloud properties." We're not sure yet if Oracle might be partially to blame.