Today's Steam outage may have been part of a massive DDoS attack targeting Xbox, PlayStation, Riot, and other game companies

As seen in outage reports on Downdetector, the timing is awfully coincidental.
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Majority of US gamers don’t buy more than two games a year reveals new survey

A survey has found only a tiny amount of players in the US are buying new games every month, while a third barely buy new games at all. The games industry has been in a state of flux over recent years ...