Call of Duty is back online after servers hit with hour-long outage on all platforms [UPDATED]

It's prime-time gaming hours for a Thursday evening, but if you thought you were going to drop into Call of Duty and rack up a nuke or two for your combat record, you are sorely mistaken. Every single Call of Duty title on every single platform is currently experiencing a server outage.

If you were in a match when the outage began, you were abruptly kicked back to the opening splash screen or fully kicked to the dashboard via a game crash. After attempting to connect to the servers, the splash screen returns a "Failure to load inventory" error.

After the initial crash, the Call of Duty Updates social media account posted that the team was investigating the issue. The outage was also posted on the Activision support website.

The crash is affecting every Call of Duty title, including the recently re-released Call of Duty: WWII, which just returned to PC Game Pass after being temporarily delisted because of problems with hacking and exploits. Additional titles from Activision are also impacted. A full list of impacted titles and platforms includes:

• Call of Duty: Advance Warfare
  • Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II
  • Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Steam
• Call of Duty: Black Ops III
  • Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Steam
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
  • Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Battle.net
• Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
  • All platforms
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
  • All platforms
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
  • All platforms
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
  • All platforms
• Call of Duty: Warzone
  • All platforms
• Call of Duty: Ghosts
  • Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Steam
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
  • Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Steam
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
  • All platforms
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  • Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Steam
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered
  • Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Steam
• Call of Duty: Vanguard
  • All platforms
• Call of Duty: WWII
  • Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Steam
• Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile
  • All supported devices
• Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
  • Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Battle.net
• Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
  • Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
• Crash Team Rumble
  • All platforms
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2
  • Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Epic Games, Steam, Microsoft Store
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4
  • All platforms

According to Activision's support page, the outage began at 7:59 PM PST/10:59 PM EST, but this seems to be in error. As of 9:25 PM EST, the official Call of Duty Updates account shared that the servers were beginning to stabilize, and the team would continue to monitor the issue as players begin to reconnect.

There has been no confirmation from official Activision outlets about what may have caused the hour-long outage.

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