{"id":107100,"date":"2025-10-07T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/107100\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:11:08","slug":"steam-is-back-online-after-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/107100\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam is back online after outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Steam went down on Tuesday. Steamstat.us <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/steamstat.us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:indicated;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">indicated<\/a> earlier that the Steam Store, Steam Community and Web API were all down. But it&#8217;s been all systems go for the better part of the past hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Engadget staffers&#8217; experience matches that. Earlier, when trying to access the Steam Store on <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/steam-deck-lcd-review-2023-still-one-of-the-best-handheld-pcs-140044516.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steam Deck;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steam Deck<\/a> and in the mobile app, only the UI loaded as an empty wrapper. Now everything appears to be loading normally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">At the peak of the outage, Steamstat.us showed over 1.5 million page views in the previous hour. That typically means lots of annoyed gamers are trying to find out why they&#8217;re having problems. PC Gamer <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/steam-is-down-oct-7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reports;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">reports<\/a> that APIs for Valve&#8217;s first-party games (including Counter-Strike 2 and Deadlock) were also offline earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">We&#8217;ll keep an eye on the situation and update if the problems return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steam went down on Tuesday. Steamstat.us indicated earlier that the Steam Store, Steam Community and Web API were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,17,4940,15522,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-107100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-steam","12":"tag-steam-deck","13":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}