Major websites taken down in widespread outage

Several major websites and online services went down Thursday in a brief but widespread outage.

Popular gaming services includingPlayStation Networkand Steam were also impacted, as wasFortnite maker Epic Games.

The Epic Games Store/Launcher is currently impacted by a broader internet issue affecting a range of online services.

We’ll provide an update when players are able to use the Store/Launcher as normal.

Several of the sites and services have now returned.

Problems started at around 11:30 a.m.

ET, according toreports on web monitoring site Down Detector.

Akamai later confirmed to CNET that a fix was in place and the service was resuming normal operations.

“We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated.”