New Delhi, Dec. 25 -- Video game distribution service Steam was down for hundreds of thousands of users globally on Christmas Eve, and with the outage stretching for over an hour, the issue could be serious.

Reports of the service being down started coming in at around 2 pm ET, before being restored around 2.39 pm. The restoration, however, was brief.

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 274,000 at the time of updating this, indicating a large scale outage.

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