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16-hour Xbox outage even stopped physical games from working — company blames licensing issue for incident that prohibited gaming across three generations of console

… Xbox services also went down last week during the early access launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved, and PlayStation Network took a multi-hour outage of its own on July 24. …

Jul 28, 2026 · Luke James

Microsoft says physical discs should not have stopped working during the Xbox outage — clarifies issue with entitlement checks that failed to read licenses correctly, update on the way

… The outage itself affected everything from log-ins to application launches, and from online play to this strange issue of discs not running as intended. It was tied to an external service provider suddenly going down, and remaining down, for 16 hours. …

Jul 29, 2026 · Hassam Nasir

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16-hour Xbox outage even stopped physical games from working — company blames licensing issue for incident that prohibited gaming across three generations of console

Microsoft says physical discs should not have stopped working during the Xbox outage — clarifies issue with entitlement checks that failed to read licenses correctly, update on the way