The Coalition Says DDoS Attacks Disrupted E-Day Services

The Coalition said distributed denial-of-service attacks disrupted Gears of War: E-Day’s online services, causing some players to experience intermittent disconnects, login problems and other service interruptions. The studio said its teams were monitoring and working to mitigate the activity. Xbox Support was reported as later saying the game’s online services were back to normal, though another account described the outage as ongoing. The Coalition’s statement, posted through the Gears Community account on October 12, attributed the problems to attacks targeting the game’s online services. It did not identify who was responsible or explain a motive. The studio said it would provide updates if there were significant changes. Players reported trouble connecting to the game, according to the supplied accounts. One report also described difficulties affecting people attempting to play the campaign offline, but did not quantify how many players were affected. The Coalition’s public explanation focused on disruptions to E-Day’s online services. The reported recovery status was not consistent across accounts published on October 12.