{"id":333885,"date":"2025-12-24T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333885\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:11:07","slug":"steam-and-valves-online-games-are-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333885\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam and Valve&#8217;s online games are down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Steam is experiencing an outage that\u2019s impacting users ability to access the game store and play games online. Valve hasn\u2019t acknowledged the outage publicly, but SteamDB\u2019s <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/steamstat.us\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:unofficial Steam Status page;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">unofficial Steam Status page<\/a> reports that the Steam Store, Steam Community, and Steam Web APIs are all offline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/steam\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:DownDetector;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">DownDetector<\/a> received over 6,000 outage reports around 1:15PM ET, and Steam is also inaccessible from Valve\u2019s mobile apps. The outage appears to be affecting APIs for Valve\u2019s online games, like Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 and Counterstrike 2, as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Steam\u2019s <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/pc\/steam-is-back-online-after-outage-170514965.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:last major outage;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last major outage<\/a> was in October, when the store and online services were unavailable for an hour. Earlier in September, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/hollow-knight-silksong-fans-have-brought-down-steam-142116085.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:the launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong<\/a> temporarily took down Steam, the Xbox Store and Nintendo\u2019s eShop due to how many people tried to download the game at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steam is experiencing an outage that\u2019s impacting users ability to access the game store and play games online.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,130010,130012,130011,130014,3121,130013,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-333885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-online-games","tag-online-services","tag-outage-reports","tag-play-games","tag-steam","tag-steam-web-apis","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}