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.

Xbox is down: Major outages stop sign-in, game launches

As of this writing, Xbox's own status page lists "major outage" conditions across four services: Account & Profile, Games & ...
Windows Report on MSN

[UPDATED] Xbox is still down; server outage triggers game library, sign-in & game launch issues

Thousands of Xbox users report issues on Downdetector, but Microsoft's official Xbox Status page currently active outage, ...
PCMag on MSN

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 ...
CNET on MSN

Xbox Live Is Back Online, Microsoft Says, but Some Players Want Compensation

Some players paid extra for up to five days of early access.

Xbox Servers Go Down And Lock Fans Out Of Games As A Grim Reminder Of Our All-Digital Future [Update: ‘Things Are Slowly Improving’]

Xbox players began reporting the issues early on July 27. The Xbox server status page, as of 9:40 a.m. ET, shows that ...

Xbox down update: Microsoft breaks silence amid massive outage - When will services resume?

Xbox and Microsoft acknowledged significant issues impacting online services, including sign-in errors and game library ...

Xbox outage: What is happening, latest updates, and how to fix the 0x87e107df error

Xbox Outage Update News : Thousands of Xbox users faced login and game access issues due to a major service outage. Microsoft ...
Hindustan Times

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.