FORTNITE has stopped working for some gamers in a mystery outage.
Players were unable to log on to the wildly popular video game on Tuesday afternoon.
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Thousands of complaints about the game have been logged by outage tracker Down Detector.
Most of the complaints relate to being able to access the game online.
Issues with the game began flooding in on Tuesday afternoon at around 4pm UK time.
Gamers are also complaining about the Epic Games store not working.
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Epic Games is the studio that created Fortnite, as well as other popular games including the Gears of War franchise.
Hundreds of players have taken to Twitter to report issues with Fortnite too.
It’s currently unclear what has caused the apparent outage.
Often outages like this are due to bungled updates.
Other times, the servers that host the game for players fail – locking gamers out.
However, Epic Games hasn’t confirmed why players are struggling to get online.
We’ve asked Epic Games for comment and will update this story with any response.
Fortnite is one of the world’s most popular video games, loved by tens of millions of players around the world.
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