Overview
- The Coalition confirmed Monday that repeated distributed-denial-of-service attacks targeted Gears of War: E-Day and caused extended login queues, disconnects and temporary server outages.
- Xbox posted that service was 'back to normal' after mitigation, but many players continued to report intermittent login delays and matchmaking drops.
- Players said long matchmaking waits and login failures over the weekend sometimes made online play unavailable even for users who could run single-player content.
- The studio said teams are actively monitoring traffic and applying filtering and absorption measures to blunt the attacks while posting status updates to players.
- This incident follows similar coordinated DDoS strikes on other online games earlier this year and raises questions about how studios will protect live-service launches and preserve player access.