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Subscribe to the world's #1 PC gaming mag Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£35.99Subscribe now Essential Hardware Dune: Awakening PC Gaming Show Recommended reading It's not just you—Steam is getting absolutely crushed under the Summer Sale Yep, Steam is down (update: we're so back) A week after a major hack brought down 4chan and doxxed all its users, it seems like it may be dead for good Gaming Industry An MVP of ultrawide patches for triple-A games just had their entire library nuked from GitHub, and nobody seems to know why Hunt: Showdown 1896 goes offline for a day after its latest update caused so many problems Crytek had to remove it completely 'We're gonna do right by you': Splitgate 2 CEO apologizes for server meltdown after the open beta goes live North Korea's only Steam user disappeared yesterday, but not to worry: They're back and gaming harder than ever Reddit just had a meltdown for a moment: 'no content to display' on any subreddits, before deploying a server fix in surely record time Jacob Ridley 16 July 2025 I nearly went outside in the break, but alas, the time to touch grass has passed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Reddit) Oops, looks like Reddit just went down. Or at least sorta down. A strange tech issue hit the site, which means it could no longer display any content. Not a single thread. The issue appears to affect most regions, as we've experienced it across the UK and US here at PC Gamer. Head to Reddit and you were shown the homepage and your subreddits in a list, but click on anything and you'd be greeted with a big ol' nope. The account 'Reddit Status' on X suggested it was looking into it. Related Articles It's not just you—Steam is getting absolutely crushed under the Summer Sale Yep, Steam is down (update: we're so back) A week after a major hack brought down 4chan and doxxed all its users, it seems like it may be dead for good Identified: We've identified the cause of the issue and are working to address it. https://t.co/ypn8IRe7SPJuly 16, 2025 Only 20 minutes later, it noted that it had found the cause of the issue and fixed it. That's a pretty prompt response time—I wish all server issues were sorted that fast. We don't know the exact cause of the issue, though it's interesting to note that it only affected the actual content on Reddit and not the website itself. That suggests it was not any sort of denial of service attack, or DDoS, which would see a server totally overwhelmed with requests to the point of slowing or breaking. Nope, this seems like some other sorta issue—something relatively easy to fix. 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It's not just you—Steam is getting absolutely crushed under the Summer Sale Yep, Steam is down (update: we're so back) A week after a major hack brought down 4chan and doxxed all its users, it seems like it may be dead for good An MVP of ultrawide patches for triple-A games just had their entire library nuked from GitHub, and nobody seems to know why Hunt: Showdown 1896 goes offline for a day after its latest update caused so many problems Crytek had to remove it completely 'We're gonna do right by you': Splitgate 2 CEO apologizes for server meltdown after the open beta goes live Latest in Software As the Nintendo eShop fails to protect from 'eslop', indie devs reflect on how it affects their work and why Steam is just better: 'Their algorithm will more or less naturally bury AI slop' EU-commissioned study on generative AI and copyright suggests overturning the current opt-out approach that 'effectively treats silence as consent' Steam's got a new rule that puts the kibosh on 'certain kinds of adult only content' that make Visa and Mastercard sad Meta is expanding its AI capabilities so quickly it's housing data centers in tents, which would make them data tenters, no? 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