{"id":829470,"date":"2026-07-27T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829470\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:01:17","slug":"a-major-xbox-outage-appears-amid-halo-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829470\/","title":{"rendered":"A Major XBOX Outage Appears, Amid Halo Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

XBOX outages continue to flood the internet, with Microsoft addressing the situation and is currently working to resolve all issues.<\/p>\n

XBOX gamers<\/a> may have woken up to some upsetting news, and no, it is not related to the mass layoffs\u2014unless the online services department was part of the culling. More major outages continue to flood the internet regarding XBOX\u2019s online services. Players already reported the inability to sign-in to their accounts and start some downloaded games. The services have reportedly been happening for eight hours and counting, with no fix yet. Microsoft<\/a> addressed the issues on X<\/a>, but has not provided an update as to what caused the outage or when services will return to normal. <\/p>\n

The official XBOX status page<\/a> shows the \u201cmajor outage\u201d status for the following services:<\/p>\n

Account & Profile \u2014 \u201cYou may not be able to sign-in to your Xbox profile, may be disconnected while signed in, or have other related problems. Features that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won\u2019t be available.\u201d<\/p>\n

Store & Subscriptions \u2014 \u201cYou might not see a game you\u2019re looking for in the Store right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Games & Gaming \u2014 \u201cYou may have problems playing your digital games right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apps & Mobile \u2014 \u201cYou may have problems launching apps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Microsoft must be scrambling around the clock to resolve this issue, as Halo: Campaign Evolved<\/a> is set to officially launch tomorrow (July 28), as Premium Edition owners have already been playing three days early. This online service problem took a turn for the worse last week against XBOX\u2019s competitor. Sony\u2019s PlayStation Network went down in a similar way, but came at the worst time for the company. One of the major reasons was that the open beta for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls went live at the same time.<\/p>\n

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Amid backlash to eliminate physical discs for new PlayStation games in 2028, the outage proved everyone\u2019s point that an all-digital future should be frowned upon. If PSN keeps going down, gamers will grow more frustrated as they cannot access their game library during that downtime. Whereas having a physical copy of a game, especially for a single-player game, typically allows players to keep playing. <\/p>\n

While the memes against Sony and PlayStation continue to flood the internet, it is possible that XBOX will also get its share of backlash with the recent layoffs and how Project Helix will reportedly not have a disc drive. But the internet remains slow on Monday morning, maybe the memes will begin by Monday night\u2014especially if the issues persist throughout the day. For now, the support page currently lists all four issues with a \u201cpending\u201d status for a resolution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"XBOX outages continue to flood the internet, with Microsoft addressing the situation and is currently working to resolve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-829470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}