2025-10-07
Steam is back online after outage
Steam went down on Tuesday. Steamstat.us indicated earlier that the Steam Store, Steam Community and Web API were all down. But it's been all systems go for the better part of the past hour.
Engadget staffers' experience matches that. Earlier, when trying to access the Steam Store on Steam Deck and in the mobile app, only the UI loaded as an empty wrapper. Now everything appears to be loading normally.
At the peak of the outage, Steamstat.us showed over 1.5 millio [...]
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VILE: Exhumed is an unjust casualty in Steam's sweeping censorship campaign
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