Xbox Live recovers from an outage lasting several hours

An Xbox Stay outage prevented some gamers from launching cloud video games, taking part in digital video games, and making purchases from its retailer. Points began round 4PM ET Saturday night time and weren’t resolved till early Sunday morning.

“Gamers ought to now not be seeing points in relation to purchases, launching video games, or becoming a member of Cloud Gaming periods,” Xbox Help said in a tweet. “Thanks for being affected person. Comfortable gaming!”

This most up-to-date string of points adopted an enormous outage spanning a number of hours on Friday night time and into Saturday morning. Some gamers had been unable to begin Cloud Gaming periods, launch digital video games, make purchases, and even entry streaming apps together with Netflix and Disney Plus.

Though Xbox seemed to resolve these problems, it seems to be like points with its retailer, digital titles, and Cloud Gaming resurfaced Saturday night time. Gamers ought to’ve been in a position to play video games offline in the course of the outage with their Xbox set as their “house” console, nevertheless, some reported that Xbox nonetheless prompted them to sign up to play their very own video games. As my colleague Tom Warren points out, this situation calls consideration to Microsoft’s DRM coverage that makes it more durable, if not unimaginable, to play bought digital video games offline.

Replace, Might seventh 5:45PM ET: Up to date so as to add that rebooting your Xbox console could assist resolve some points.

Replace, Might eighth 8:18AM ET: Up to date to replicate that the outage has been resolved, and added some further info for context surrounding Microsoft’s DRM coverage.