Neverwinter, the free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Cryptic Studios and released by Perfect World Entertainment, was first confirmed as offline at around 2am, BST.

It has since been confirmed by the Neverwinter support team, who have been busy keeping fans informed on its current server status.

“We’re aware of the server issues and are currently investigating,” a message from the Neverwinter team explains.

“Our wizards are still in the midst of investigating. It may take more than an hour to bring the servers back up.”

And a recent message has confirmed that the game will likely not be back online until at least 7:30am, UK time.

“It looks like the evil magic is harder to vanquish than initially thought. Our servers may be down for up to two more hours,” the Neverwinter support message reads.

It is currently unclear what has caused tonight’s outage, although more is expected to be revealed later today. Neverwinter is scheduled to undergo maintenance on August 23, going offline around two hours for a server reset.

That maintance window, however, was not supposed to start until around 3pm, BST.

We can confirm that the Express is unable to access services on either Neverwinter Xbox One, or PS4, as of right now.

MFL..