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Epic Games outage on September 16, 2026: Fortnite Login Issues on Xbox

Epic Games reported an incident affecting Epic Games for 34 minutes on 16 September 2026, from 15:09 to 15:43 UTC.

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Resolved

Official incident reported by Epic Games

Started
15:09
16 Sep 2026 UTC
Resolved
15:43
16 Sep 2026 UTC
Duration
34m
34 minutes
Impact
Major
as rated by Epic Games
Updates
2
posted by Epic Games

Timeline

All times UTC.

Official incident from Epic Games

Fortnite Login Issues on Xbox

Resolved Major impact 16 Sep 2026 15:09 UTC View on Epic Games's status page
  1. Official
    Investigating

    We're investigating an issue that is preventing players on Xbox from logging into Fortnite. We will let you know as soon as this is resolved.

  2. Official
    Resolved

    Fortnite login issues affecting players on Xbox have been resolved. As part of the fix, you may be prompted to redownload the game before jumping back in.

"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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