Xbox Live is back following major outage

/ Microsoft’s Xbox platform went down Thursday night, with many players unable to sign in or connect to online games.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

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A widespread Xbox Live outage lasting several hours has now been resolved. The issue prevented players from signing into their accounts and downloading or playing online games. “Users should once again be able to sign in, matchmake and complete purchases,” Xbox Support said on X at 11.24PM ET. “Thank you for sticking with us!”

Xbox had earlier confirmed there was a “major” Xbox

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