Some of the major video game stores currently seem to be down. At the time of writing PlayStation Network, Steam and Epic Games Store are completely inaccessible and their sites are reporting DNS errors.
The problems started about an hour ago and at the moment they don’t seem to find a solution of continuity. In addition to the aforementioned PlayStation Network, Steam and Epic Games Store, the difficulties are involving other large portals and services such as those of Airbnb, LastPass, TikTok and UPS: according to the various reports that emerged on Twitter, the origin of the disservice seems to be attributable to Akamai , one of the largest networks in the world. In a recent update, the company said, “We are aware of an emerging problem with the Edge DNS service. We are actively investigating the outage.”
Meanwhile, Epic has also reported the problem to its users: “The Epic Games Store / Launcher is currently affected by a broader Internet issue affecting a range of online services. We will provide an update when players can return to using the Store as normal. “. Valve and Sony haven’t spoken out yet. As always, we will keep you updated on any developments in the matter.