Epic Games outage on October 16, 2026: EOS Sessions and Lobbies
Epic Games reported an incident affecting Epic Games for 57 minutes on 16 October 2026, from 22:20 to 23:17 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Epic Games
- Started
- 22:20
- 16 Oct 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 23:17
- 16 Oct 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 57m
- 57 minutes
- Impact
- Minor
- as rated by Epic Games
- Updates
- 3
- posted by Epic Games
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Epic Games
EOS Sessions and Lobbies
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Official
Investigating
Multiplayer sessions and lobbies may experience brief instability while we restart services to correct an issue. This should be back online and operational momentarily.
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Official
Identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
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Official
Resolved
This incident has been resolved.
"Official" rows are quoted from Epic Games's public status page, status.epicgames.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test epicgames.com from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live Epic Games status shows what our checks see right now.
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