Xbox was down for hours, and users even had trouble playing disc-based games

Just days after a widespread outage took out PlayStation's online services for several hours, Xbox faced issues of its own. An outage started affecting several Xbox services on Su ...
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Xbox says day-long outage is resolved. Here's what happened

Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet blames the outage on the failure of a licensing service that triggered sign-in scenarios to fail and took down multiple services across the platform.
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Xbox down update: Microsoft breaks silence amid massive outage - When will services resume?

Following reports from users worldwide regarding problems with the Xbox Network, Xbox has recognized multiple issues impacting its online services today. Xbox Network is experiencing significant ...
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Xbox server down update: Thousands complain of outage; how to fix issue sign-in issues

Xbox servers appeared to be facing troubles on Tuesday. At the time of writing, over 7,000 people complained of problems on the Downdetector app. Xbox gamers complained of server outage on Tuesday.
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[UPDATED] Xbox is still down; server outage triggers game library, sign-in & game launch issues

[UPDATE 2: 27 July 11:57AM UTC] XBOX has further confirmed that it's investigating into "game library, sign-in, and game launch issue." The company further notes, "We know this has been going on a ...