#server-outage

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fromTheregister
2 days ago

Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server

A technician wearing a wedding ring shorted a server board, causing an outage, briefly concealed the failure, and service resumed after an unexpected reboot.
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fromEngadget
1 month ago

Rainbow Six Siege servers are back online after shutting down in response to Marketplace hacks

A breach of Rainbow Six Siege's servers gave players billions of credits and rare skins, prompting Ubisoft to shut servers and roll back transactions.
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fromGadgets 360
1 month ago

Rainbow Six Siege Servers Still Down as Ubisoft Performs Rollback

Ubisoft is rolling back player data after a large-scale breach in Rainbow Six Siege but provides no timeline for full server restoration.
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 months ago

Fortnite Is Down Along With A Number Of Other Games

Fortnite suffered severe login and server outages due to an Epic Online Services login bug, also disrupting Epic Games Store and other gaming services.
fromGameSpot
3 months ago

Arc Raiders Players Receiving In-Game Compensation For Server Struggles

The official Arc Raiders account on X announced the in-game compensation for players. The post acknowledges "that our servers had a wobble on Sunday," with SteamDB noting the game hit a new peak concurrent-players count of 354,836 people on Steam that day. This comes after Arc Raiders already broke a Steam record for extraction shooters with PvP. Keep in mind that the game is also available on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S (as well as Epic Games Store),
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fromKotaku
3 months ago

Arc Raiders Gifts Premium Currency After Server Struggles

Embark Studios awarded 500 Raider Tokens (~$5) to Sunday players after server issues, but players criticise high cosmetic prices and restrictive item customization.
fromGameSpot
4 months ago

Skate Softlock Issue: EA Is Investigating But Needs Your Help

"We've seen a lot of reports on getting softlocked in various points--the Isle of Grom Tutorial, various Missions and/or Challenges," the developer wrote in the game's forums. "The Full Circle team are working to identify the cause of the issues and get a fix out as soon as possible, but we need some info."
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