Your Christmas Eve gaming session might not go as planned. Online gaming hub Steam went down on Wednesday.
The Steam outage appeared to begin mid-afternoon ET, according to Downdetector, which monitors site outages. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)
A representative for Steam did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
As of Wednesday noon PT, Steam’s official X and Bluesky accounts hadn’t posted anything about the outage.
Gamers certainly noticed. “Steam down, Steam down!!!” wrote one Bluesky user.
Others commented on the bad timing just as gamers were enjoying time off or receiving gaming gifts. “‘You got a gift on Steam!’ oh cool ‘Steam is down’ oh cool,” wrote another Bluesky user.
