India, Dec. 25 -- ARC Raiders and Fortnite are experiencing widespread outages on Christmas eve, with players across PC, PS5, and Xbox reporting the ART00004 Network Timeout error. Downdetector, a platform that tracks online outages, showed that about 35,000 users in the US reported the ARC Raiders downtime.

This issue, which prevents connection to game servers, has been linked to a server overload. The game company is yet to issue a statement.

"When Arc Raiders servers go down on Xmas Eve," one person reacted on X, platform formerly known as Twitter.

"Many Services & Games are currently down. AWS, Fortnite, Steam, ARC Raiders, Marvel Rivals, EA," a second person tweeted.

The ART00004 error, reading 'Retrieving data from backend servi...