Since mid-afternoon this Wednesday, December 15, 2021, the servers of many popular games and services such as Twitch, the Playstation Network, Apex Legends or even FIFA have been paralyzed by a massive outage. For the moment, the origin of the problem remains undetermined.
If you’re unable to watch your favorite streamer on Twitch or finish Top 1 on Apex Legends, rest assured, you’re not alone. From 4 p.m. this Wednesday, December 15, 2021, the servers of many popular games and services such as Twitch and the Playstation Network are victims of a massive outage.
On DownDetector, a site specializing in identifying the various problems reported on the most popular games / services / platforms, complaints literally explode. Regarding the PSN, the site is already recording more than 8,400 reports, and it just keeps on climbing. For our part, we have indeed observed difficulties in accessing the Playstation Store from the PS5.
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PSN, Xbox Live, Twitch and AWS totally knocked out
The failure obviously affects many services. Twitch is totally out of service, contenting itself with displaying “A network error has occurred ”. Several popular titles are also affected, the majority being EA games like Apex Legends or FIFA. “I can’t even go to the home page ”, tells a player on the page of the famous Battle Royale. On Twitter, FIFA players claim to have lost the connection in the middle of the game. It has since been impossible to reconnect to the game’s servers.
And if the Playstation Network is concerned, Xbox Live also seems to be affected by this failure. Reports are also starting to increase on social media and on DownDetector. But more worrying still, AWS or Amazon Web Service servers are also affected.
The source of the problem could well lie there, with the platform hosting many popular services / apps / games. For the moment, the American giant has not yet officially reacted, but it should not be long before the problem continues and escalates. Of course, we’ll update this article as soon as we have more information on the origins of the problem.
