Editor’s Note: Services have returned as of 7:21 PM PT. Sign-in functions for Microsoft’s Xbox Live service failed Tuesday into the afternoon, preventing users from signing in to and playing Xbox ...

Update: Xbox Live services are available once again. Xbox has not commented on the cause of the outage but has since confirmed the users should be able to use the service again. Users should no longer ...

Xbox Live is back online. After an outage knocked out the gaming service for several hours on Tuesday, Microsoft's gaming platform is back in service. In a tweet posted on X Tuesday evening, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. In what’s turning into a bad week for gamers, the Xbox Live ...

Tyler Shipley is an editor for GameRant who has been writing for the team since 2021. Tyler has a degree in English from the University of Toledo. Some of his favorite games are platformers, but he ...

User-reported problems with Xbox Live began to spike at about 2:15 p.m. ET Tuesday, according to monitoring site Downdetector. As of 2:25 p.m., more than 23,000 outage reports had been logged with the ...

UPDATE: Microsoft has made the announcement official. Xbox Game Pass Core will replace Xbox LIVE Gold. Read more here. After decades of online gaming, Xbox LIVE Gold is reportedly being phased out and ...