An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.

An Amazon Web Services outage has resulted in a lot of unhappy gamers, with server issues hitting Fortnite and many other top games.

The Toronto Blue Jays are headed to their first MLB World Series since 1993 after a dramatic 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Monday. They’ll now take on the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

Amazon Web Services is recovering after an outage that disrupted Facebook, Snapchat, Fortnite, Coinbase and other major platforms, once again illustrating the internet’s heavy reliance on the cloud giant and a lack of redundancy in online services.

Fortnite is going offline for its 37.50 update (Fortnitemares 2025 patch). The update has brought a fresh wave of spooky cosmetics, collaborations, and bug fixes are on the way. Here’s the Fortnite Update 37.50 downtime guide for U.S. time zones (PT / ET):

Fortnitemares 2025 started on October 9, 2025. This was revealed by an in-game pop-up that teased the event. You can see this image below: We now know that Fortnitemares 2025 will run right up until November 1, 2025. Plenty of time to get your hands on the new Halloween-themed skins.

We're used to video game characters repeating the same lines of scripted dialogue. But artificial intelligence is now allowing players to have unique, unscripted conversations with the characters