Cyberattack fails to ruin Battlefield: Hardline’s launch day

After a day of running relatively smoothly, a few gamers on Xbox One late last night started noticing some issues with their new copy of Battlefield: Hardline (read our review). Turns out that this wasn’t because of bugs or built-in connectivity issues — it was a cyberattack.

Publisher Electronic Arts confirmed last night on Twitter that it was working to fix the problems that were keeping some from enjoying the cops-versus-robbers shooter. Later, it revealed that the issues were due to a distributed denial-of-service attack that targeted the Xbox One servers. This is just the latest of this kind of attack on a major video game. But this is also the only real trouble for Hardline on its release day, which is the first Battlefield game since the notoriously broken Battlefield 4.