New Delhi, Dec. 25 -- Video game distribution service Steam was down for thousands of users globally on Christmas Eve.

Reports of the service being down started coming in at around 2 pm ET, and as of writing this, services had not been restored, as per the unofficial Steam Status website that tracks outages.

As per the website, Steam is experiencing "web socket errors", which are affecting the entire Steam store, community, and web API.

Pageviews on Steam Status had also spiked to 239,000 at the time of writing, indicated a large scale outage.

Valve, which runs Steam, has yet to issue an official update: nothing has thus far been posted on either Valve or Steam's social media handles.

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