An outage briefly affected Fortnite, Arc Raiders, Battle.net, PSN, and more, but now appears to be resolved

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Arc Raiders is working for us now, I was able to connect to the Epic Games Store, and Fortnite players on social media are saying that it's back up, so it looks like this was just a hiccup.

We first noticed that the Arc Raiders servers were down this morning at around 10:30 am Pacific time, but wasn't the end of it. Downdetector has seen a spike in reports from users who are having trouble accessing Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, Rocket League, Dead by Daylight, PSN, Xbox Live, Elden Ring, Battle.net, and many other games and web services.

When multiple online services stop working simultaneously, attention turns to large cloud providers like Amazon's AWS, but the company has said that today's issues had nothing to do with AWS, which is functioning normally.

Tyler grew up in Silicon Valley during the '80s and '90s, playing games like Zork and Arkanoid on early PCs. He was later captivated by Myst, SimCity, Civilization, Command & Conquer, all the shooters they call "boomer shooters" now, and PS1 classic Bushido Blade (that's right: he had Bleem!). Tyler joined PC Gamer in 2011, and today he's focused on the site's news coverage. His hobbies include amateur boxing and adding to his 1,200-plus hours in Rocket League.

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